Gary Langendoen, Senior Managing Director of Pasadena's Madison Realty Companies, announced this week that the federal government had approved Madison's formation of the American California Regional Center, matching foreign investors with job-creating construction projects in 19 northern California counties. The new Regional Center takes advantage of a 1992 amendment to the Immigration Act of 1990, which grants foreign nationals an initial two-year visa if they invest at least $500,000 in job-creating projects in the United States.