The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeks public comments on its proposal to increase filing fees for the adjudication of applications, and to recover costs in administering the immigration laws. The proposal was posted yesterday in the Federal Register. The proposed increase would raise filing fees for most applications by 10%. The comment period begins on June 11, 2010 and ends on July 26, 2010. [...]
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10 Jun 2010 / Announcements, EB-5 Visa, Employment Authorization, Family Visas, Fiancé(e) visas, Green Cards, News, Waivers of Inadmissibility
Tags: dhs filing fee, filing fee increase, immigration filing fees, increase in immigration filing fees, uscis filing fees
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11 Jan 2010 / EB-5 Visa, Green Cards, Immigration Reform
The Washington Post reported today that number of foreign nationals who have applied for permanent residence (a green card) based on their investment between $500,000 to $1 million in a U.S. business has approximately tripled in the past fiscal year. The rise in the number of applications have been the result of businesses that are in need for cash to either stay in business [...]
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Tags: alien investors, EB-5, eb-5 green card, EB-5 Visa, foreign investors, immigrant investors, investment based green card
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24 Nov 2009 / Announcements, EB-5 Visa, Employer Sanctions, Green Cards, Immigration Reform, J-1 visas, Legislative Watch, Religious Workers
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported today that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on October 28, 2009, has extended the E-Verify, the Immigrant Investor (EB-5 Pilot Program), the Special Immigrant visa category for non-minister religious workers, and, the date by which J-1 nonimmigrant exchange visitors must obtain J-1 status to qualify for [...]
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Tags: conrad 30, e verify, eb-4, EB-5, Employer Sanctions, immigrant doctors, immigrant investors, j-1, Religious Workers, workplace enforcement
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19 Jun 2009 / EB-5 Visa
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a guidance memorandum yesterday that clarifies the definition of job creation and the meaning of full-time positions in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. The guidance memorandum clarifies the requirement of employment creation and, what is considered as a permanent job for the purposes of the invesment based immigrant visa petition. Under the guidance memorandum, The USCIS [...]
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Tags: alien investors, foreign investors, immigrant investors, investment based green card
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27 Nov 2008 / EB-5 Visa
The Orlando Business Journal reports that Orlando’s Lake Buena Vista Resort Village & Spa has become Florida’s first federally designated EB-5 Regional Center: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service designation, known as the EB-5 immigrant investor program, allows foreign buyers to eventually become permanent United States residents by investing at least $1 million in properties. [...]
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Tags: EB-5, green card, Orlando regional center