Where Immigration Policy and Business Realities Converge
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On May 1, 2012, the USCIS held their quarterly stakeholders meeting at the California Service Center. Yesterday, the USCIS issued anUSCIS EB-5 May Summaryof that meeting, in which they attempt to address questions that were asked during the meeting but which could not be commented on during that time. The following is an…
This week in response to stakeholder requests, the USCIS announced that Director Alejandro Mayorkas would beholding a stakeholder engagement with USCIS economists on Friday, June 22, 2012 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm (Eastern). During the session, USCIS economists will address the agency’s review of economic methodologies used in EB-5 Immigrant Investor cases, including the…
As we reported a few weeks back, USCIS has changed their policy with respect to the tenant occupancy method of calculating job creation. In recent weeks, they have issued a number of Requests for Evidence (RFE) associated with I-924 petitions for either initial regional center designation or project amendment that rely on “tenant occupancy”…
