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EB-5 Changes Imminent as Washington’s Dysfunction Continues
I am sitting in Doha, Qatar, waiting for my connection, and it just dawned on me that this whole business of trying to predict the future of EB-5 has become less of a “science” and more of an interpretive study in human dynamics since the launch of this most-unpredictable Trumpian era. We are all s...
Jose E. Latour Jan 15, 2018
WSJ Reports SEC Investigation of Big EB-5 China Activities
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., the SEC, the U.S. federal agency responsible for governing how investments are offered by U.S. issuers) is investigating the real-estate company run by the family of President Donald Trump’s senior ...
Jose E. Latour Jan 06, 2018
EB-5 TEA Investment Likely to Leap from $500K to $1.35M in early 2018
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the agency responsible for administering regulatory changes in the federal government, has updated its projected timeline for new EB-5 regulations from April 2018 to February 2018. While I mentioned this already to readers, a lot more discussion has b...
Jose E. Latour Dec 30, 2017
A “Modest Proposal” for the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Office (IPO) Leadership
As evidenced from USCIS’ comments made during the Nov. 7th stakeholder meeting, the agency continues to struggle with a massive backlog of I-526 petitions and no immediate solutions is in sight. As the most astute independent observer of the EB-5 industry, Suzanne Lazicki’s most recent blog delves ...
Jose E. Latour Dec 30, 2017
NO WORRIES! What “Unauthorized” EB-5 Means in January 2018 Visa Bulletin
Happy Holidays, Readers! AVS EB-5 has been getting calls and emails from all over the world regarding the just-published January 2018 Visa Bulletin issued by the State Department. In it, instead of simply showing the projected backlog for China EB-5 investors, it reads across all worldwide regions...
Jose E. Latour Dec 18, 2017
Congress voted yesterday to extend the budget for two weeks and EB-5 gets yet another brief extension. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Senate are still tinkering with a number of issues which are more politically pressing than EB-5, and the two week extension was agreed upon ...
Jose E. Latour Dec 08, 2017
EB-5 Renewal: The Silence is Deafening
As the brilliant Suzanne Lazicki pointed out in her posting today , the EB-5 Regional Center program has received an astonishing 7 short-term extensions in the past two years, and it's been a good five years since Congress did anything meaningful to improve the program. The TEA abuse and unlawful k...
Jose E. Latour Nov 29, 2017
2018 EB-5 Cutoff Date for Vietnam? What You Need to Know
If you are a Vietnamese investor thinking about EB-5, you’ve probably heard about the potential of a so-called “cutoff” which could leave new investors facing long delays. I’ve told you several times that I thought this was more marketing hype but now that the mighty Charles Oppenheim, Director of ...
Jose E. Latour Nov 04, 2017
Okay, AVSEB5 Readers, for those of you who are gluttons for punishment, here you are: the entire library of all of my immigration blogs written since 2007 is officially online at AVSEB5. I know what you are thinking: "Why on EARTH would Jose re-post all of his old blogs when most of it is no longe...
Jose E. Latour Sep 20, 2017
Celebrating AVS Vietnam’s One Year Anniversary
It's true: time DOES fly when you are having fun! Consider that it was only last September when brand new AVS Country Director Nguyet ("Monica") Pham and I were looking at our first little Regus office at the very tony Saigon Tower, across the street from the U.S. Consulate. We were arguing: ever ...
Jose E. Latour Sep 19, 2017
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