NES Financial offers a series of articles written by industry experts addressing best practices and pressing issues in the EB-5 industry, such as business plan changes in EB-5 projects. This article by Ronald Klasko of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, A Business Plan is Not a Statue: Impacts of Business Plan Changes, considers the impact of [...]
NES Financial would like to congratulate the following new Regional Centers on their USCIS approval for the month of April 2017: Atlas Regional Center, LLC - California Hope Investment Regional Center - California Washington Free Life - Washington To keep your EB-5 Regional Center designation for 2019, you must file a Form I-924A (Annual Certification [...]
This past week, our team attended the 6th Annual IIUSA EB-5 Industry Forum. While it was an honor to be a Premier Platinum sponsor and to hear Executive Vice President Reid Thomas speak on EB-5 program integrity, the invaluable experience of joining over 400 industry peers for two days was as refreshing as it was insightful. Here are [...]
NES Financial would like to congratulate the following EB-5 Regional Centers on their USCIS approval for the month of October 2016: American Investment Fund Regional Center, LLC American Southern Regional Center, LLC Invest Atlanta Regional Center KCI Capital Limited KOIT Global Investments Sun Island Regional Center The Flame Regional Center TLQ Partnership, LLC TriHaven Investment [...]
NES Financial would like to congratulate the following EB-5 Regional Centers on their USCIS approval for the month of September 2016 America California Construction, LLC America Commonwealth Regional Center (Pending Termination) American Heritage Regional Center, LLC American Immigration Fund Regional Center CanAm Texas Regional Center EB5 of Ohio F2E Regional Center, LLC USASIA Pacific, Inc. [...]
Nearly 200 people joined us for our webinar, EB-5 Site Visits: Are You Ready?, where Daniel B. Lundy and Jessica DeNisi from Klasko Compliance along with Reid Thomas from NES Financial discussed what EB-5 issuers need to know about upcoming USCIS site visits. Thomas started off with talk about all the different versions of proposed [...]
NES Financial would like to congratulate the following EB-5 Regional Centers on their USCIS approval for the month of August 2016: Advantage America Southern California Regional Center, LLC AmerInvest Regional Center East, LLC AmerInvest Regional Center West, LLC CV West Coast Regional Center, LLC Golden State Northern California Agriculture Development, LLC To keep your EB-5 [...]
We are excited to welcome guest blogger Jane (Yue) Zhang from Medallion Partner Miller Mayer to discuss Form I-924A considerations. Jane is an Associate in Miller Mayer's immigration practice and has been involved with EB-5 for years. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has approved over 800 EB-5 regional centers.[1] Each regional center must file [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services just released updated processing times for EB-5 petitions through July 14th. For I-526 petitions, processing times remained the same at 16.6 months. However, both I-829 and I-924 petitions increased at 20.1 and 9.9 months respectively. Date I-526 I-829 I-924 1/31/16 16.3 16.9 9 2/29/16 16.6 17.5 9.3 7/14/16 16.6 [...]
The USCIS has announced plans to begin implementing Regional Center site visits in 2016, and the stakes for EB-5 issuers have never been higher. If a USCIS fraud detection agent knocked on your door today, would your Regional Center be prepared? During the hearing on February 2nd, 2016, a judiciary committee came together to discuss [...]