EB-5 News & Updates September 07-14

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Live! Q&A with Dan Young Min Ban on Pennsylvania Turnpike Highway Capital

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, US 09/15/2017 2:00PM - 3:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Questions can be made by calling: +1-917-421-9919  Topics for discussion: Why investing with government owned infrastructure EB-5 project is a safer option for EB-5 investors.  Pennsylvania Turnpike EB-5 project structure and its advant...

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Live! Q&A with Gar Lippincot on Ecco on Orange

Florida, Florida, US 09/21/2017 2:00PM - 3:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Questions can be made by calling: +1-917-421-9919  Topics for discussion: Part of Investment Bank and Private Equity Fund Manager formed in 1974 Completed over 900 transactions in 60 countries at estimated value of $40 Bn. 25 proj...

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TXMUD LLC
This project is in one mile stretch along theDallas North Tollway from Warren Parkway to Lebanon Road which will comprise 4 mixedusedevelopments and at least $5.4 billion in capital investment. The projects aretransforming about 549 acres of land in Frisco into high-end developments.The projects...
Chinatown
The development would offer 1,600 bedrooms in buildings that are up to six stories. Unit sizes are yet-to-be determined. Plans also call for plazas, restaurants, offices, Chinese markets, transit nodes, and an "Eastern-themed" design.The development - which city officials referred to as a...

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Foreign Buyers Snap Up U.S. Real Estate in Unprecedented Surge
Foreign investments in U.S. real estate have surged nearly 50 percent as of late, according to the 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR). The report shows...
SEC Suffers One of its First Major Losses in EB-5 Realm
By Omar Hakim, Esq. Earlier this month, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied the SEC’s request for a preliminary injunction against Seyed Taher Kameli and entities he controlled to (i) stop them from...
Did you know? Congress extended the current law to December 8, 2017 with no changes!
Did you know? Congress extended the current law to December 8, 2017 with no changes! On Friday August 8th, President Trump signed H.R. 601 that will provide funding for the federal government and extend the EB-5 Regional Center Program...
ABD Kongresi, şu anda yürürlükte olan EB5 yasasını, 8 Aralık 2017'ye kadar herhangi bir değişiklik yapmadan uzatılmasına karar verdiğini biliyor muydunuz?
Biliyor muydunuz? ABD Kongresi, şu anda yürürlükte olan EB5 yasasını, 8 Aralık 2017'ye kadar herhangi bir değişiklik yapmadan uzatılmasına karar verdi! 8 Ağustos Cuma günü Başkan Trump Federal hükümete fon sağlayacak ve EB-5 Bölge...
Network of companies with ties to York County casino bid stretches far and wide
Those linked to the York County initiative come from the West Coast and as far as Japan, while one businessman listed as a backer says, ‘This is totally fraudulent.’ A campaign to win voter approval for a casino in York County is...
US Supreme Court restores Trump's travel ban on refugees
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling which narrowed enforcement of President Donald Trump's travel ban, handing the administration another victory on a signature immigration policy initiative. Justices will have to examine...
How Rich Chinese Use Visa Fixers to Move to the U.S.
Have a spare $500,000 to invest in an economically distressed American area (that actually isn’t distressed at all)? China’s EB-5 fixers will help you every step of the way. One summer Saturday in 2013, Vivian Ding took the stage in the...
And, in the Fine Print ... EB-5 Gets Another Three Months
Overlooked by the media — but not by Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — the immigrant investor (EB-5) program won another three-month extension as an element in the agreement between the president and the Democrats over...

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Congress Approves Package of Government Continuance and Public Safety Measures, Including Important Immigration Programs
The president and congressional leaders reached an agreement earlier this week on a package of government continuance and public safety measures. This package includes a Continuing Resolution, Debt Extension, Hurricane Harvey relief resources,...
Statement from the Press Secretary on President Donald J. Trump Signing H.R. 601
The President appreciates Congress putting aside partisan politics and acting quickly to ensure that first responders, local officials, and Federal emergency management personnel have the resources they need to respond to the natural disasters...
Form I-924A: Practical Considerations for EB-5 Regional Centers
On August 24, 2017, USCIS held a webinar on changes to Form I-924A. The number of approved EB-5 regional centers has grown rapidly from less than a dozen a decade ago to more than 8351 today. As a vital part of the EB-5 program, regional centers...
EB-5 Regional Center Program Reauthorized To Dec., 8, 2017
The U.S. Congress extended the EB-5 Regional Center Program through December 8, 2017, without reform, as part of a stopgap continuing resolution to fund the federal government (H.R.601), which the President signed into law on September 8. The...
Regional Center Updates
Lawsuit over scandal-plagued EB-5 program to move forward
A DACA vigil was held at Meldrum Park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in response to President Trump ending the program earlier in the day. A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the architect of the state’s EB-5 immigrant...
Federal Judge Declines to Dismiss Visa Program Lawsuit
A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the architect of South Dakota's EB-5 investment-for-visa program after finding potential public policy and state law violations. The Argus Leader reports that former program...
What to make of EB-5 proceedings
State Attorney General Marty Jackley took issue recently with a story written by reporter Bob Mercer about the no-prison sentence handed to Joop Bollen earlier this year. Bollen was initially charged with five counts of using money in which state...
Court denies appeal request in EB-5 case
The South Dakota Supreme Court has denied a request to hear an appeal in a case involving the controversial federal immigrant-investor program known as EB-5. In July, a circuit court judge dismissed the state of South Dakota from the list of...
Controversial Chinese College Project Being Built Upstate NY Faces Obstacles
A rendering from 2013 of the China City of America Thompson Education Center, a proposed college in the upstate New York town of Thompson. In an upstate New York town of roughly 15,000, a Long Island developer is facing pushback for plans to...
Jackley and Bjorkman respond to Bob Mercer story on no-prison sentence handed to Bollen
State Attorney General Marty Jackley took issue recently with a story written by reporter Bob Mercer about the no-prison sentence handed to Joop Bollen earlier this year. Bollen was initially charged with five counts of using money in which state...
User Updates
4 reasons why EB-5 visa programme is the best for studying abroad
You were probably unaware of the EB-5 visa programme. Here is why it is the best choice to study abroad. Most Indians seeking a future in the US pursue the well-known F1 and H1-B visa programmes. However, a lesser known programme, the EB-5...
Quiros filing: Bid to collect $3M in legal fees ‘improper,’ ‘frivolous’
Ariel Quiros at the opening of Jay Peak Resort’s Stateside Hotel in December 2013. Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros is firing back at his former legal team’s request to collect $3 million in fees for defending him from investor fraud allegations...
RC reauthorization to 12/8/2017, I-924A tips, SEC request denied (Kameli)
Regional Center Program Reauthorization The EB-5 Regional Center Program authorization is now extended to December 8, 2017 thanks to H.R.601, which the President signed into law yesterday. Washington worked with admirable dispatch this time,...
Class-action fraud suit can go ahead against People’s bank, Quiros
The lead plaintiff was an investor in the Penthouse Suites project, part of the Hotel Jay. A federal judge has given the green light for a proposed class-action investor fraud lawsuit to proceed against Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros and a bank he...
H.R. 601 Extends EB-5 Program and Provides $15.25B of Disaster Relief Funds
President Trump has signed into law H.R. 601, a continuing resolution that funds the federal government through December 8, 2017, and thereby extends the EB-5 Regional Center Program beyond September 30, 2017—the end of the federal fiscal year....
Project Updates
Mount Snow ask feds to expedite independent EB-5 center
Signs at the entrance of Mount Snow in Dover advertise passes for the next season and the start of summer events. Mount Snow...
Quick EB-5 solution sought at Mount snow
Opening weekend at Mount Snow Resort in West Dover on Nov. 27, 2015. Mount Snow administrators have asked the federal government to...
217 West 57th Street, Aka Central Park Tower, Gets Its First Glass
Central Park Tower The development boom that began to envelope the 57th Street corridor with One57’s rise is finally at peak frenzy. 220...
Ypsilanti's Water Street could see $150M development in 2018
The Water Street property owned by the city of Ypsilanti could see new construction within a year by a foreign investment company...
Burke Hotel, Conference Center, Mark 1-Year Anniversary
The new Burke Mountain Hotel & Conference Center, before the Q for Quiros was removed from all the signage for the new hotel, and...
Jared Kushner’s public life complicates family’s ownership of pricey NYC tower
What appeared to be a shrewd business deal in 2007 now haunts Kushner Cos. as the bills come due. Jared Kushner and his family company...

Events

Live! Q&A with Dan Young Min Ban on Pennsylvania Turnpike Highway Capital

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, US 09/15/2017 2:00PM - 3:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Questions can be made by calling: +1-917-421-9919  Topics for discussion: Why investing with government owned infrastructure EB-5 project is a safer option for EB-5 investors.  Pennsylvania Turnpike EB-5 project structure and its advant...

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Live! Q&A with Gar Lippincot on Ecco on Orange

Florida, Florida, US 09/21/2017 2:00PM - 3:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Questions can be made by calling: +1-917-421-9919  Topics for discussion: Part of Investment Bank and Private Equity Fund Manager formed in 1974 Completed over 900 transactions in 60 countries at estimated value of $40 Bn. 25 proj...

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