EB-5 News & Updates #127 May 23-30

Projects

Hyatt House Metropark Shenando...
Joining a slate of highly anticipated restaurant, retail, and entertainment offerings, Hyatt House Metropark Shenandoah/The Woodlands will be five story and feature 148 rooms ranging from studios, one- and two-bedroom suites with fully equipped kitchens and separate living guestrooms,...

Posts

How Hidden Billions Are Making the Rich Richer
St. Kitts Island, home of a market in passports, as seen from the tax haven Nevis. The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World During the federal trial of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort,...
Pork & Mindy's to open BBQ joints inside 28 Mariano's this year
Barbecue joint Pork & Mindy’s plans to open mini restaurants inside 28 Chicago-area Mariano’s this year, a huge expansion for the local sandwich shop and a new kind of partnership for the grocery chain. Pork & Mindy’s, which...
'Sandwich King' Mauro bringing Pork & Mindy's to Restaurant Row in Elmwood Park
Food Network star Jeff Mauro is ready to see his restaurant join the institutions along Restaurant Row in Elmwood Park. The season 7 winner of “Food Network Star” and current host of “Sandwich King” and “The Kitchen” will open his...
Surge in Gulf applicants expected for US investor visa scheme
The US EB-5 visa programme currently requires would-be immigrants to invest a minimum of $500,000, a figure that is expected to go up The EB-5 visa programme is designed to encourage foreign investment in projects across the US and...

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Firms Updates
Thinking of Immigrating to America from SA? Now Is The Time
South Africans are surging towards the popular United States EB-5 Immigrant Investment Visa programme ahead of possible price increases that will likely place the EB-5 visa programme out of reach for many, other than for the uber-rich.   NES...
EB-5 Industry Stakeholders Unveil Consensus Principles to Reform and Reauthorize the EB-5 Program
On May 17, 2019, EB-5 Industry stakeholder groups, led by the EB-5 Investment Coalition, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Real Estate Roundtable, IIUSA, Rural Alliance, Real Estate Board of New York, AILA, among others, submitted a joint letter to...
Is It the End of the EB-5 World as We Know It? How to Prepare for Potential Changes – June 11
EB-5 program has long provided a path to US Lawful Permanent Residence to immigrant investors willing to invest lawfully obtained capital in a qualifying commercial enterprise in the US. The resulting impact is to create 10 qualified full-time...
EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization
EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program
EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Realignment
Jay Peak receiver Goldberg suing Quiros law firm
Receiver Michael Goldberg, Governor Phil Scott and DFR Commissioner Michael Piciak in April 2017 announcing a $150 million settlement with Raymond James in the Jay Peak fraud case.  The Jay Peak case is generating more litigation. This time...
Regional Center Updates
Vt. Financial Regulation Commissioner: Charges In EB-5 Case Propel 'Healing Process'
Vermont Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Michael Pieciak, pictured here in 2016, said criminal charges filed this week are a move toward closure in the EB-5 scandal in the Northeast Kingdom. Criminal fraud charges filed this week...
Project Updates
Hotel starts construction in 70-acre mixed-use development near The Woodlands
Hyatt House Metropark Shenandoah/The Woodlands is slated to open November 2020. Sam Moon Group is the developer of Metropark Square and...
Chinese investors in shuttered vegas casino demand refunds
Developers and former managers of Asian-themed Lucky Dragon casino-hotel that was built, open for a year, closed and recently sold...
Settlement possible in Deadwood Mountain Grand EB-5 litigation
The Deadwood Mountain Grand opened in the summer of 2011 after receiving millions of dollars through the EB-5 program.  High-stakes...
User Updates
Bill Kelly — Ariel Quiros’ behind-the-scenes man in the EB-5 fraud
Bill Kelly arrives outside federal court in Burlington for his arraignment on charges in the EB-5 fraud case on Wednesday. When Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger arrived late Wednesday morning at the federal courthouse in Burlington, the media...
Similarities with EB-5 Visas and Opportunity Zone Programs
Clem G. Turner, member at Chiesa, Shahinian & Giantomasi EB-5 projects could work with Opportunity Zone investments, and in a GlobeSt.com interview lawyer Clem G. Turner explains why he sees the nexus. Clem G. Turner has been representing...

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