EB-5 Law & Developments

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/immigration/7169978.html

Feds moving to dismiss some deportation cases

Critics assail the plan as a bid to create a kind of backdoor 'amnesty'

By SUSAN CARROLL
Copyright 2010, HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Aug. 24, 2010, 9:00PM

ever since USCIS instituted a lockbox receiving address for EB-5 related filings. USCIS should be more sensitive to not creating additional problems for their customers.

Said author did not attend but listened to MP3 tapes of various sessions of the above seminar. I thought it would be helpful to share some often-repeated remarks or observations made by EB-5 panel members. I heard panel members often say or express the below opinions or sentiments.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_4409.html

The above may help speed up the immigrant visa processing for EB-5 IV applicants.

3,688 divided by 4 (our guess on the average size of family for all EB-5 cases) is around 900 families. That means there must have been around 900 EB-5 cases (including adjustments and IV processing, but a lot more IV processing cases) for fiscal year 2009. See pages 18 and 23.

From our educated guess, the EB-5 cases "appears" to have doubled from fiscal year 2008.

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We believe it's all the more important for USCIS to implement a practical approach to adjudicating I-526 and I-829 petitions when the U.S. unemployment rate and economy are worsening. In this bad economic times, when foreign investors are willing to invest in the U.S. and still move their families to the U.S.

via teleconference or in-person attendance, but so far, USCIS appears not to want to "answer" tough questions but appear to be just doing these meetings for the sake of being able to say they are holding these meetings. Hopefully, these meetings will become more productive.

It seems strange, but there appears to be more I-829 approvals where clients receive permanent green cards in the mail without ever receiving I-829 approval notices or receiving I-829 approval notices after receiving permanent green cards. Not complaining though.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a revised filing location for individuals filing an Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur (Form I-526). The new form version, which is dated 4/21/10, requires petitioners to file at the USCIS Lockbox rather than at a Service Center.