Update on Our ‘Rock Solid’ EB-5 Projects

Now that we know that the future of EB-5 will be determined in the next few months, we wanted to provide you with a brief update about our EB-5 projects and remind you of the AVS EB-5 commitment to protecting our EB-5 investors. As you know, the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program has been facing a...

Jose E. Latour May 11, 2017

EB-5: A Study in “Moral Hazard”

If you took an economics course in college, you might vaguely remember the term “moral hazard”.  I do, and I remember it precisely because, in contrast to the rest of what the brilliant University of Florida Prof. David Denslow tried to hammer into my dense 18 year old brain, it was a foreign concep...

Jose E. Latour May 04, 2017

Chaos at the Airport: NOT the Fault of CBP, ICE, or USCIS!

As the headlines pour in from all over the world with stories of the utter chaos, unfairness, and injustice triggered by President Trump's poorly-drafted, foolishly-deployed immigration executive orders, as always it is the "human interest" angle which most captures our hearts and minds.  Seeing the...

Jose E. Latour Jan 31, 2017

URGENT UPDATE to AVS EB-5 Investors Re Trump’s Immigration Executive Order

Note: the following post is extracted from an emergency email message sent by AVS EB-5 Managing Director José Latour to all AVS investors in the U.S. and abroad in the hope that it can prevent further family separations resulting from the poorly-thought-out and hastily-executed executive orders chan...

Jose E. Latour Jan 31, 2017

The EB-5 Regional Center Program Extended Unchanged Until April 2017

For most of 2016 we have been anxiously awaiting ‘eminent’ changes to the EB-5 program, which has received more scrutiny and criticism than ever before by US Congress and other key players in the industry. While most of the EB-5 industry is confident the program will receive substantial new requirem...

Jose E. Latour Dec 08, 2016

Avoiding Fiduciary Responsibility: Not Just an EB-5 Problem

In April of 2017, the Labor Department's new "fiduciary rule" will take effect and the parallels between what the rule seeks to rectify and the imminent reform of EB-5 are virtually identical:  after many years of resistance/lobbying/stalling by Wall Street investment firms wanting to have their cak...

Jose E. Latour Oct 27, 2016