The U.S. State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that they have issued all legally available visas in the unreserved EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program categories for Fiscal Year 2024. Embassies and consulates have been directed to not issue immigrant visas in these categories until the new fiscal year (FY 2025) starts on Oct.
With the Implementation of the 2022 EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act (RIA) the practice of EB-5 law in terms of requirements for projects, regional centers, broker dealers, overseas migration agents and fund managers has markedly changed. The RIA introduced new requirements for recordkeeping, reporting and overall compliance. Likewise, EB-5 investor applications under the new law
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
On Sept. 30, 2020, the U.S. Senate passed and the president signed H.R. 8337 to keep the U.S. government operational through Dec. 11, 2020. This action will maintain vital immigration programs such as the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program, E-Verify, Conrad 30 Waiver Program for J-1 medical doctors and non-minister religious workers programs.
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Eight attorneys from the Immigration and Compliance Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP are included in the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, one attorney is recognized in the inaugural edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. Read the full GT press release.
On Aug. 12, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals limited a nationwide injunction issued earlier by a lower court in Make the Road New York, et al. v. Cuccinelli, et al., where the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) issued a nation-wide injunction preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from continuing to require compliance with the public charge rule.
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The Executive Order, “Proclamation Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak,” signed on April 23 by President Trump is narrower in scope than his prior statements promising a shutdown of immigration to the United States. The Executive Order bans the issuance of
On Feb. 7, 2020, the official visa information website of the U.S. mission in China (http://cdn.ustraveldocs.com/cn/index.html?firstTime=No) announced that as of Feb. 3, 2020, regular visa services at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and Consulates General in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang are all suspended. The notice further states that the U.S. Embassy and
As a follow-up to our Jan. 31 blog post, we have yet to see an official announcement from the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in China regarding visa appointment cancellations for the week of Feb. 10 or later. However, this week, we began receiving non-immigrant and immigrant visa appointment cancellations for the week of Feb.
On Jan. 31, the official visa information website of the U.S. mission in China posted an urgent announcement that U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China are cancelling immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments the week of Feb. 3. The visa information website cannot provide a specific date when routine visa services will be resumed. We expect