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Back in 1990, Congress created the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.

The recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino are going to result in an increase in security checks for visa applicants at U.S. consular posts.

Since September 30, 2015 Congress has considered several immigration bills that would have completely overhauled the EB-5 program.

Over a year ago, we covered the dysfunctionally-long quota backlogs for Indian-born prospective immigrants in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories with our article For the Indian-born, Entrepreneurship is the Fastest Way to a Green Card. Since that time, Indian demand for the EB-5 immigrant investor visa has exploded ..

The EB-5 program was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and investment by foreign nationals seeking to secure U.S. visas.

Green and Spiegel is pleased to announce Practice Director Jonathan Grode has been named to the National Law Journal's inaugural list of Immigration Trailblazers.

In response to several posts by the Wall Street Journal regarding the EB-5 program, Mintz Levin partner Douglas Hauer responds with 5 Things the WSJ Did Not Mention about Real Estate Finance and the EB-5 Program.

A provision to extend the current EB-5 Program until September 30, 2018 is contained in the proposed Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 ("Omnibus").

On Dec. 2, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received enough H-1B petitions to meet the 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa...

Wealthy foreign investors hoping to gain residency to the US via the EB-5 program may lose their investment because of an alleged fraud, currently being reviewed by INS.

USCIS recently published a statistics report on the impact of the EB-5 Program for the fiscal years 2012 and 2013.

After years of fits and starts, Israeli media is now widely reporting that the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee has approved its long-anticipated reciprocal immigration regulations, which was ostensibly the final legal roadblock in allowing American and Israeli Investors opportunity to apply for each other's investment visas.

What business listeners should know about the bill's provisions.

Practice Chair, Susan Cohen was quoted in the Law360 article, Rule for Foreign Startup Founders Seen as Helpful Stopgap in which she explains the nuances of the UCIS's proposed entrepreneur rule.

On the heels of the controversial executive order barring entry of nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries, President Trump is now about to set his sights on business immigration issues.

May 25, 2017 – The US EB-5 investment immigration program has been granted another temporary extension, this time until September 30, 2017, with the Trump administration calling for its repair.

September 20, 2017 - The U.S. EB-5 investment immigration program has been granted a further temporary extension until December 8, 2017.