EB-5 News & Updates April 05-12

Projects

Pork and Mindy's
Business Description Pork and Mindy’s is developing 24 additional restaurant locations across the Chicagoland area Currently, Pork & Mindy’s has 3 revenue generation verticals: Retail, Restaurants and Food Service distribution Led by Food Network Star Jeff Mauro, a 3-time Emmy nominated...
AAFF III - Residences at Dania...
Atlantic American Partners is pleased to annouce our 10th EB-5 offering, Atlantic American Fortune Fund III, LP (AAFF III). AAFF III is a diversified fund, where EB-5 investors own a porfolio of projects, versus a single project. This provides diversification of investment and reduces investment...

Posts

Spotting Fraud in EB-5 Schemes
April 2018 How to Increase the Odds of Spotting Fraud in EB-5 Schemes Kathy Bazoian Phelps, Financial Fraud Litigator, Diamond McCarthy, LLP Jon D. Fleming, Receiver and former principal of an EB-5 Regional Center Legacy Receiver For...
If you missed the H-1B cap don’t despair!
USCIS Reached the FY19 H-1B Cap; Premium Processing Suspended Again https://goo.gl/ujYAVs USCIS has reached the congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for fiscal year 2019. USCIS has also received a sufficient number of H-1B...
Leahy, others urge Trump administration to finalize EB-5 regulatory reforms
In a joint letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Senate and House Judiciary Committee chairmen Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) urged the...
Ten Thousand Wealthy Aliens Annually Obtain Visas, Green Cards Via EB-5 Program; 82% of Applicants from One Country
About ten thousand wealthy foreign nationals obtain U.S. visas that can lead to permanent-resident green cards each year by utilizing America’s EB-5 program. Under the program, foreign nationals must invest at least a half-million...
H1-B VISA TROUBLES CATAPULT INDIAN NATIONALS TOWARDS EB-5
By Mona Shah, Esq. & Hermione M. Krumm, Esq. Recent trends in EB-5 investment has seen a huge interest from India especially among H-1B professionals. This is largely due to the uncertainty surrounding America’s largest guest...

Updates

Project Updates
BIG’s Twisting Towers At 76 Eleventh Avenue Begin Making An Impact On The Chelsea Skyline
Chelsea has long been a center of creativity in Manhattan. Recent developments have been strongly inspired by that history. Many of the...
January 2018
Construction of the Phase I of the retail has begun (75% pre-leased to big-box retailers). Construction of Phase II of teh retail is...
February 2018
Construction of Phase I of the retail is underway (95% leased) and Phase II of the retail is expected to begin in May 2018 (33% leased)....
January 2018
Construction of the Phase I of the retail has begun (75% pre-leased to big-box retailers). Construction of Phase II of teh retail is...
February 2018
Construction of Phase I of the retail is underway (95% leased) and Phase II of the retail is expected to begin in May 2018 (33% leased)....
User Updates
Annual TEA Update
A quick update from our EB-5 team - new data for TEA determination coming soon. Implementation varies by state. See common questions and our answers in the newsletter linked below.
Spurred by moral outrage, Vermont gets freeze of $10M in Quiros' assets
The question of whether Vermont government leaders were complicit in the massive Jay Peak Resort fraud case was argued in court for the first time Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 in Vermont Superior Court in Hyde Park. A Vermont court froze Ariel Quiros'...
USIF’s Nicholas Mastroianni Announces EB-5 Petition Approvals Issued to Investors for The Charles in New York City
I-829 petition approvals have now been issued for another successful U.S. Immigration Fund EB-5 project offering, The Charles, in NYC’s Upper East Side We want to congratulate our EB-5 investors who recently received their I-829 petition...
Firms Updates
SEC Increases Scrutiny of EB-5 Investment Fraud
The Immigrant Investor Program, or EB-5 Program, was until recently a little-known visa preference program operated by a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the program made headlines in January 2018 when The Wall Street...
EB-5 Alert – Recent System Conversion at USCIS Results in 90+ Day Delay for I-829 Receipt Notices and ASC Appointment Notices
Due to a recent system conversion at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), all I-829 receipt notices and ASC Appointment notices are now delayed 90 days or more. This may be dismaying for many EB-5 investors and their...

Litigation Cases

Tian Li, Yan Sheng Yang, Jun Jie Zeng vs California Investment Immigration Fund (CIIF)
Yu-Ching Chang, Sarah Hsin Cheng, Shih-Ting Fang, Tzu-Yin Lin, Yung-Ching Lin, Yu-Shun Lin, Chi-Yu Liu, Tuo-Jung Tseng, Yu-Chi Wu, Wen-Guh Yang vs U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Events

2018 International Migration Summit - Beijing

29 East Third Ring Road Chaoyang District, Beijing 100027, Conrad Beijing, CN 04/18/2018 4:00PM - 04/20/2018 7:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Save the Dates for IMS International Migration Summit (IMS) has built a reputation for events that foster collaboration and relationship-building in the Chinese investment migration industry. Our past IMS events welcomed more than 1,300 attende...

$799
2018 International Migration Summit - Shanghai

Grand Central Hotel Shanghai No 505, Jiujiang Road Shanghai, China 200001, Shanghai, CN 04/23/2018 4:00PM - 04/25/2018 7:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Save the Dates for IMS International Migration Summit (IMS) has built a reputation for events that foster collaboration and relationship-building in the Chinese investment migration industry. Our past IMS events welcomed more than 1,300 attende...

$799

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