EB-5 News & Updates September 14-21

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Eclipse Theater Las Vegas, LP
The Eclipse Theater is located in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, providing the opportunity to invest in America’s Gateway Entertainment City, to secure a US Green Card for the investor and his or her family. The Eclipse focus is the upscale, full service experience.Patrons will have the...
The Rehabilitation Center at H...
The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hillsis a 152 bed skilled nursing facility licensed by the State of Florida and certified as a Medicare and Medicaid provider accepting most insurances. The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hillsis located directly across the street from Hollywood's...

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Leading opponent of York County casino says backers offering ‘the same empty promises’
Rep. Louis Luchini, D-Ellsworth, responds to the release by a political action committee of an analysis predicting more jobs and revenues if the casino is approved. A leading opponent of the fall ballot question on a casino in York...
Visas for Sale: Willful Ignorance in the D.C. Swamp
Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke is slow-jamming calls for an investigation into a shady Chinese investor-visa venture that involved President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said “...
Chinatown, of a Different Sort
Contributor Perspectives offer insight, analysis and commentary from Stratfor’s Board of Contributors and guest contributors who are distinguished leaders in their fields of expertise. Chinese property developers have famously...
China is turning to Jared Kushner to prepare for Trump’s visit to Beijing
Jared Kushner, advisor to and son-in-law of US president Donald Trump, is facing growing scrutiny over possible collusion with Russia during Trump’s election campaign. Some in Trump’s legal team had even suggested that Kushner step down...
Letter: City council: Avoid appearance of scandal
In a recent Sioux Falls City Council meeting, it was voted on how we elect the city council members to office. This seems to be a major conflict of interest. If changing how we elect the council is that big of an issue, shouldn’t we the...
America’s EB-5 Immigration Program Opens the Floodgates for Chinese Tech Investors
The EB-5 immigration program has ballooned in size in recent years, and it is being closely followed by foreign investors. The program, which has existed for over a century, is an efficient method for high net-worth individuals and...
Luther Strange’s disclosure exposes double talk on immigration
Sitting Sen. Luther Strange has found himself in the middle of a dogfight for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, where he faces former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Sept. 26 in a run-off that’s oft a contest of who’s the most conservative...
Evaluating Funding Options
QUALIFIED CANDIDATE: Aemetis Inc. used the EB-5 program to develop and construct its ethanol plant in Keyes, California. EB-5 is a nontraditional equity source, but can be explored for certain qualified projects. Funding options are...
Management Lawyer Joins DOL as First Wage-Hour Political Hire
Management-side attorney Keith Sonderling has joined the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division as a senior policy adviser, according to an e-mail sent to Department of Labor staff obtained by Bloomberg News. Sonderling is the first...
Owner of Rehab Facility where 8 Died in Irma also Involved with EB-5
The immigrant-investor (EB-5) program continues to attract sharpsters of all kinds, as we have noted in the past. The most recent example is Dr. Jack Michel, the owner of the rehabilitation facility in Hollywood, Fla., where eight...
EB-5 Regional Center Program Facing Changes
On Sept. 8, nearly a month ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline, the EB-5 Regional Center Program was extended to Dec. 8, as part of H.R.601. While the extension of the EB-5 Regional Center Program is a welcome development, yet another...
Luther strange campaign admits EB-5 program not used intended keeps investment
Sen. Luther Strange’s (R-AL) effort to paint himself as the true immigration hawk in the GOP primary campaign for a full term as the Yellowhammer State’s U.S. senator continued to flounder Wednesday in the face of reports Strange is a...

Updates

Firms Updates
EB-5 investor program extension might result in ‘short spurt’ in applications
The program was extended through December 8, 2017, as part of the HR 601 The EB-5 visa program, which allows qualified foreign investors green cards, has been extended through December 8, 2017. The extension of the EB-5 Regional Center Program...
EB-5 visa major CanAm to open offices in India as demand jumps
With Indians expected to emerge as major applicants for the EB-5 visa to get permanent residency in the US, CanAm Investor Services, one of the leading provider of this immigration-linked investment programme, is planning to set up operations...
Top EB-5 firm signs for 108K sf in Midtown
1400 Broadway and Anthony Malkin Asking rent at Empire State Realty's 1400 Broadway was $59 psf The global immigration firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy may as well be moving to a new country. The company, based Downtown, signed a...
Project Updates
Chinatow Project secures funding
$75MM Project funding secured for Eastern Tower
American Lending Center Celebrates Lodge at Columbia Point Opening
EB-5 Financing from ALC supports local economic development American Lending Center (ALC)—a subsidiary of Regional Centers Holding Group...
About those EB-5 visas that will 'save' Ypsilanti with a $300M 'International Village'
The Ypsilanti City Council is voting on Tuesday on plans for an estimated $300 million "international neighborhood" proposed by a...
Intense interest prompts venue change for Water Street meeting in Ypsilanti
Ypsilanti City Council is changing the location of its regular meeting due to a larger-than-normal crowd expected to hear about a...
Luther Strange benefits financially from company selling visa access to wealthy foreigners
While immigration is among the hot-button issues in the Alabama U.S. Senate Runoff between Republicans Roy Moore and Luther Strange,...
User Updates
Hotel Lawyers at The Lodging Conference 2017: EB-5, Mixed-Use Development and Deal Making
EB-5, Mixed-Use Development and Deal Making: See you at the 2017 Lodging Conference The Lodging Conference is taking place at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, October 30-November 2, 2017, and hotel lawyers from JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group...
Regional Center Updates
EB-Fail: Jay Peak Is Part of a Troubling Pattern
Left to right: Congressman Peter Welch, Bill Stenger, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Peter Shumlin, Ariel Quiros and William Kelly at the unveiling of the Northeast Kingdom Economic Development Initiative in Newport in September...
Calif. Atty, EB-5 Investor Settle Bitter Counterclaims
A California lawyer and a former client in China who sued each other over a $500,000 real estate investment gone wrong and an EB-5 investor visa that never materialized saw their dispute dismissed with prejudice Monday by a California federal...

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