Helllllloooooooooooo….anybody OUT THERE???

I spent HOURS reading over excruciating USCIS dicta to bring you a concise synopsis of the January memorandum and NOT A COMMENT.  In fact, my site visits today are about a third what they've been on days when I don't write!  Gads!!!!A simple acknowledgment of my "what visa d...

Jose E. Latour Feb 03, 2010

New EB5 Regional Center Memo: Reading Between the Lines

A few weeks ago I told youthat Donald Neufeld, Acting Associate Director of Domestic Operations forUSCIS, had published a field comprehensive field memo regarding EB5 RegionalCenter Adjudications, and that the memo rescinded "in its entirety"the January 19, 2005 memo which we've all b...

Jose E. Latour Feb 02, 2010

EB5 Regional Centers: The Rabbit Hole Freefall

I have had a pretty busy week so the blog factory in my brain is a bit backlogged, but I didn't want you to head home for the weekend without a little "immigrant investor food for thought".As you know, the past few months for me have been a pretty deep and full immersion into the worl...

Jose E. Latour Jan 29, 2010

EB5 Piggybacking: an Option Worth Exploring

With this whole EB5 US Immigration foreign investment visa buzz, another target demographic has emerged for those of us who work with EB5 US investor visas: the US developers, development agencies, and assorted entrepreneurs who finally "get" the concept of infrastructure and project capit...

Jose E. Latour Jan 25, 2010

UM Law Gets Busy with Haitian TPS

In the blink of an eye, University of Miami School of Law professor and Director of the Health and Elder Clinic JoNel Newman and staff attorney Melissa Swain, with the help of the inimitable Linda Osberg-Braun and Melissa Venceslau, taught a roomful of law students and one TPS-clueless attorney (me)...

Jose E. Latour Jan 20, 2010

Time To Roll Up the Sleeves for Haiti…Beginning with Uncle Sam’s TPS Fee

Linda Osberg-Braun, Roger's law partner, knows a thing or two about TPS.  Actually, to be fair, there is not a lot about immigration relief and benefits about which Linda is NOT an expert.  So it is quite befitting that tomorrow,  Linda will be at the University of Miami teaching...

Jose E. Latour Jan 19, 2010

EB5 Public Relations Press Release

EB5 Public Relations Targets EB5 Regional Center Investors OverseasFormer US Diplomatic/Consular Officer and A/V-Rated Attorney Jose E. Latour launches EB5 Public Relations, an international marketing, publicity, and event management consultancy catering to US EB5 Regional Centers looking to reach p...

Jose E. Latour Jan 15, 2010

79 Approved EB5 Visa Regional Centers and Counting…

The Legal Intelligencer reported earlier this week on how the EB5 Regional Center visa is, in the words of distinguished business immigration attorney Ronald Klasko, "the hottest thing going on right now in immigration".  Yet again I find myself nodding in agreement with Ron (only thi...

Jose E. Latour Jan 15, 2010

The Death of the H-1B Entrepreneur

With a swift strike of the federal pen and in their typical rulemaking-without-notice-and-comment fashion of late, USCIS has singlehandedly and without warning eviscerated decades of pragmatic policies and court decisions relating to entrepreneurs who enter the United States in H-1B status.In a memo...

Jose E. Latour Jan 13, 2010

Claims Swap in Cuba? Interesting…

My friend Tim Ashby, a fellow member of the U.S. Cuba Legal Forum, is in the forefront of the effort to both normalize trade relations with Cuba while still helping those whose properties were illegally expropriated by the Castro regime find justice.  He was quoted a bunch in this article regar...

Jose E. Latour Jan 10, 2010