USCIS recently issued a Policy Alert notifying the public that they updated the USCIS Policy Manual to include changes from the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022. The EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act was passed on March 11, 2022. Please refer to our prior posts for more information on these substantive regulatory changes. The
Please join Greenberg Traurig Immigration & Compliance Practice Shareholders Jennifer Hermansky and Kate Kalmykov for a series of late breaking webinars:
This seminar will cover the practical impact of the EB-5 litigation on EB-5 investor I-526E, project and regional center filings. The speakers will discuss the requirements and strategies for
On March 18 at 3 p.m. ET please join Laura Reiff, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Immigration & Compliance Practice and co-managing shareholder of the Northern Virginia Office, Philadelphia Shareholder Jennifer Hermansky, Los Angeles Shareholder Dillon Colucci, Pathways EB-5 CEO Jeff Campion, and Jon Baselice, vice president, immigration policy, U.S. Chamber of
As we have been reporting, the EB-5 Regional Center Program remains in a period of lapse since June 30, 2021, requiring Congressional authorization via legislation. This legislation is required so that (1) new I-526 Petitions can be filed with USCIS by new investors, (2) USCIS can continue to process pending I-526 Petitions and I-485
On Oct. 4, 2021, USCIS updated its EB-5 website and issued an alert regarding the current lapse of the EB-5 Regional Center Program. The Regional Center Program (the “Program”) has been lapsed since June 30, 2021, when Congress did not timely reauthorize it. USCIS confirmed on its website several important points for applications after June
The EB-5 Regional Center program is set to expire again on June 30, 2021. The U.S. Congress has never made the Regional Center program permanent, and so it continued to be extended on a temporary basis every few months, most recently through June 30, 2021.
The Regional Center program has expired many times before; why
As previously blogged (see EB-5 Regulations Published for Public Inspection), the EB-5 regulations have been published as of July 24, 2019, as final, to take effect Nov. 21, 2019. Below is a summary of the changes that will impact the EB-5 program:
After more than two and a half years, Obama-era EB-5 immigration regulations are set to be published on July 24, 2019, with an effective date 120 days after publication or Nov. 21, 2019. See EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization.
These regulations have been opposed by many industry participants, as evidenced in a letter to