by IIUSA HQ | Oct 7, 2019 | Government Affairs
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website, the agency will allow employment-based green card applicants (including EB-5) to use the “Dates for Filing” from the October 2019 Visa Bulletin when petitioning USCIS for their adjustment of...
by IIUSA HQ | Oct 2, 2019 | Education, Events, Government Affairs
IIUSA is pleased to announce that Sarah M. Kendall, Chief of the Immigrant Investor Program Office (IPO) at U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) will keynote our 9th Annual EB-5 Industry Forum in Seattle, WA on Tuesday, October 29. Ms. Kendall began her...
by IIUSA HQ | Sep 27, 2019 | Government Affairs
Earlier today. President Trump signed H.R. 4378 a short-term continuing resolution (CR) funding the government through November 21, 2019. The CR prevents a government shutdown and also ensures that the EB-5 Regional Center Programs authorization is extended. This...
by IIUSA HQ | Sep 26, 2019 | Government Affairs
Earlier today, the Senate cleared H.R. 4378 a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the government through November 21, 2019. The CR prevents a government shutdown which would have occurred on October 1, 2019 and importantly it also ensures that the...
by IIUSA HQ | Sep 26, 2019 | Government Affairs
On June 29, 2016, the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman released its Annual Report to Congress, which it must do by June 30 of each year. The Ombudsman’s Annual Report provides a summary of the most pervasive and serious problems...
by IIUSA HQ | Sep 23, 2019 | Education, Government Affairs
By Christina Dilbone, Mona Shah & Associates Global On an overcast Monday afternoon in a conference room sitting high atop New York City, EB-5 attorneys, developers and project managers sat around a large roundtable to discuss legislative issues surrounding the...