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With rumors (unconfirmed as of yet, but as any small community, the EB-5 community is always rife with rumors) that some I-526s have been receiving tenant-occupancy RFEs, I wanted to point you to a great article discussing issues of EB-5 tenant-occupancy in the context of hotels and hotel management companies. I would think that nursing [...]

With the growing interest in EB-5s in recent years, a number of EB-5 conferences are held throughout the country. In April, Brian Su's EB-5 conference is coming to New York City again. To date, I've attended three of Brian's conferences and spoken at one. It's a one-day crash course for those new to the topic [...]

The USCIS’s recent policy change regarding how to count indirect jobs created by tenants has thrown a monkey wrench into the world of EB-5s. The following is Part 3 of a three-part post on the recent “tenant issue” that has thrown many pending Regional Center applications into limbo. Part 1: Chang v. United States – The USCIS has [...]

The USCIS’s recent policy change regarding how to count indirect jobs created by tenants has thrown a monkey wrench into the world of EB-5s. The following is Part 3 of a three-part post on the recent “tenant issue” that has thrown many pending Regional Center applications into limbo. Part 1: Chang v. United States – The USCIS has [...]

The USCIS’s recent policy change regarding how to count indirect jobs created by tenants has thrown a monkey wrench into the world of EB-5s. The following is Part 3 of a three-part post on the recent “tenant issue” that has thrown many pending Regional Center applications into limbo. Part 1: Chang v. United States – The USCIS has [...]

(While this topic is not strictly EB-5 related, it came up recently and potentially affects an EB-5 client of mine so I thought I would share.) People who are overseas when they apply for an immigrant visa (i.e. greencard) such as an EB-5 have to go through consular processing when their I-526 petitions are approved. If the [...]

Each EB-5 investor must create at minimum 10 U.S. jobs in order to qualify for a permanent greencard. It is the number of jobs, therefore, that limit the maximum amount of

The I-526 initial filing is comprised of two parts: the first part relates to the investment

Many Regional Centers have been reporting that they are seeing I-526s being processed in about 8 to 9 months. I am happy to report that I spoke to one RC last week that said they recently had an I-526 approved in 5 months. It's too early to report a trend but it was such nice [...]

This one is for the developers who are thinking about utilizing EB-5s to finance their projects. Assuming that you've done the analysis and legwork to determine whether it is better to try to find an existing Regional Center to adopt your project vs. establishing your own Regional Center and decided on the latter, I would like [...]