Latour en Caracas para Citas de EB5: Mayo 17-19

Jose E. Latour May 11, 2010

Of Sheep and EB5 Regional Centers

"If You Build it…They Might NOT Come"....                                                    &#...

Jose E. Latour May 11, 2010

The Rise of the Brazillionaire

After over two decades of representing hundreds ofBrazilians investment-based  andprofessional immigrants in the United States, I finally made it to Brazil. Myhasty January visit -- more than anything a glimpse into the still-Napoleonictendencies demonstrated by the occasional US visa officer -...

Jose E. Latour Apr 27, 2010

The Quagmire of Advising EB5 Visa Clients: Walking the Tightrope

Learning more and more this past year about the EB5immigrant investor visa has proven to be a double-edged sword. As animmigration attorney, my professional background sorely lacks the formaltraining in finance, securities, and investments which are not only essentialin determining the quality of an...

Jose E. Latour Apr 20, 2010

F-1 Seminar Series Off to a Great Start at USC

The crowd was small, the questions were rapid-fire, and the first "Taking Charge of Your Green Card: New Millennium Options for F-1 Students" seminar went off with barely a hitch.  ("Barely" because the projector I was REQUIRED to rent - I travel with my own - was forgotten&...

Jose E. Latour Apr 14, 2010

“Live and Nationwide”…Like ZZTOP…(well, sort of…)

LA Seminar Press Release…

Jose E. Latour Apr 12, 2010

A Passage from India…to America??

While everyone knows that the Chinese have emigrated to Canada in vast numbers in the past decade and a half, not a lot of us on this side of the border are aware that, from investment visa numbers, Canada has been a powerful magnet for Indian immigration.  It might simply be that the numbers o...

Jose E. Latour Apr 08, 2010

A Case of the “EB Jeebies”: Dodging the EB-5 Hard Sell

I was talking with a friend of mine - a securities attorney --  the other day about the dramatic surge of EB-5-pushing attorneys, a stark contrast to the reality only a year ago, when few immigration attorneys were actively pursuing the visa category.  My friend, a partner with a major nat...

Jose E. Latour Apr 01, 2010

Canada’s Investment Immigration: 2 Steps Ahead of the Superior U.S. EB-5

Canada entered their current model of investment-based immigration years after the U.S. enacted the EB5 Regional Center visa category, but they sprinted out of the starting gate.  When I had my Hong Kong office in the mid-90's, in the years preceding Hong Kong's cessation to China by ...

Jose E. Latour Mar 26, 2010

Immigrant Migration Patterns: Little Pink Houses

It's no surprise that when times are tough and jobs are scarce, the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. drops.  What IS interesting, however, is in trying to understand the impact of the recession on overall U.S. immigration...and census stats can't quite tell the tale.Toda...

Jose E. Latour Mar 24, 2010