EB-5 Investors Visa

Washington, D.C., September 8, 2022: The Department of State issued the October 2022 Visa Bulletin and it includes important updates for Chinese-born and Indian-born EB-5 petitioners.The Visa Bulletin is the monthly report that determines whether there is a waiting list for U.S. permanent residence visas (“Green Cards”). 1) List A and List B Remain Current for…

Study finds more than half of U.S. startup companies valued at $1 billion or more started by immigrants.  The study from the National Foundation for American Policy indicated that almost two-thirds of U.S. billion-dollar companies were co-founded by immigrants and native-born Americans. Additionally, almost 80% of U.S. unicorn companies (privately-held, billion-dollar companies) have an immigrant…

Article by Lucid Professional Writing – An EB-5 Blog I’m overjoyed to report a positive development. For the first time in years, USCIS is holding an EB-5 stakeholder engagement that promises to include engagement (not just updates and not just listening, but “a question-and-answer session to answer questions“(!!!) From 2010 to 2017, USCIS used to hold…

Such quotas are deemed available only to new applicants. This is of particular significance to Indian born applicants, as without the benefit of set-aside visas, they are likely to experience delays in the award of green cards. The quota is limited to 70 green cards which, at 3 green cards per application approximates to 23…

Regional Center EB-5 Program is opening for new applicants Residency Invest is delighted to announce that late on Friday, a U.S.  federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop USCIS from deauthorizing EB-5 Regional Centers under the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act (“RIA”), and ordering USCIS to accept and process I-526 visa petitions from new…

RC EB-5 remains frozen.Direct EB-5 available now. For applicants who are ready to apply, we have a Direct EB-5 subscription in a project which is already operational and generating revenues. Annual returns: 2% – 3%. Job creation: >300% of min requirement. TEA compliant. EB-5 leads directly to U.S. green cards. For full details or to…

San Francisco, June 3, 2022: News from the Behring Regional Center lawsuit from the federal court in San Francisco appears to indicate that USCIS will lose its efforts to require EB-5 regional centers existing prior to March 15, 2022 to apply to USCIS for re-certification or lose their operating licenses.Behring Regional Center is challenging a…

We do have a single Direct EB-5 subscription available now for immediate filing. This subscription would be ideal for a family with children approaching the age of 21 therefore at risk of ‘ageing out’ due to the ongoing delays in the resumption of the Regional center program. Click here to request further information. Regional Center…

USCIS Resumes Processing of I 526 Applications, April 11, 2022 Update. From UCSIS: We have resumed processing regional center-based Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, filed on or before the sunset of the previous regional center program on June 30, 2021. We will adjudicate all Form I-526 petitions filed before March 15, 2022, according…

On 29th March 2022, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced bureaucratic changes to address severe visa processing backlogs.Residency Invest welcomes these long overdue processing time improvements which USCIS finally acknowledges have worsened in recent years. They have now set new ‘Cycle Time’ processing goals. Under this announcement, USCIS targets an I-526 processing goal…