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By: Mona Shah, Esq. The EB-5 Industry was stunned when in June 2017, the OMB announced that the backlog for Chinese investors had reached 10 years, effectively stymieing the market. Anxious to find investors for EB-5 projects, regional center operators... Read More
By Rebecca S. Singh, Esq. Whether you are an immigration lawyer or an applicant for a U.S. immigrant visa, the Visa Bulletin is a go-to resource to keep updated on the latest news and visa numbers that are released by the United States Department of... Read More
By Jinhee Wilde, Esq. On March 15, 2018, one EB-3 Other (EW) Visa applicant’s (GUZ20085xxxxx) (Applicant 1) Immigrant Visa was denied in Guangzhou. The Applicant had an approved I-140 petition based on the certified Labor Certification (LC) application... Read More
By Mona Shah, Esq. As the Times of India publish yet another article on the increase in the popularity of EB-5 visas, the Chinese media report on the rapid slowdown of a once booming industry. For years the EB-5 industry has been bolstered by wealthy... Read More
By Mona Shah, Esq. The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization (RIN1615-AC07) is in the final rule stage. On October 17, 2018, the Trump Administration released the Fall 2018 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Agenda), a collection... Read More
Mid- term elections draw closer, September 30 th Deadline moves to December 7th… What else! As Immigration falls out of out of the media spotlight, what can we expect? Status of the EB-5 Program Continued funding authorization for the... Read More
Posted by Kathy Bazoian Phelps Below is a summary of the activity reported for September 2018. The reported stories reflect at least 8 new Ponzi schemes worldwide; about 38 years of newly imposed sentences for people involved in Ponzi schemes; 4 guilty... Read More
A lawyer is often confronted with a proverbial mountain of casework as part of their day-to-day workload. While tackling those jobs is important, the need for generating revenue through new business is still an integral part of a successful practice.... Read More
How do you handle the privacy and data security issues for your firm and your clients? How do you stay abreast of the myriad rules and regulations governing data security and cybersecurity problems? Are cybersecurity attackers and data breach specialists... Read More
The latest attempt to address the ongoing banking issue for the recreational marijuana industry has failed in committee. A proposed amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019, 115 H.R. 6258 , was tabled by the... Read More
Posted by Kathy Bazoian Phelps Below is a summary of the activity reported for August 2018. The reported stories reflect at least 7 new Ponzi schemes worldwide; about 20 years of newly imposed sentences for people involved in Ponzi schemes; 2 guilty... Read More
The good news: there’s more potentially case-making intelligence available than ever before. The bad news: there’s more potentially case-making intelligence available than ever before. We’re talking oceans of data strung across... Read More
By Jinhee Wilde, Esq. On June 14, 2017 U.S Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a revised Volume 6 of its Policy Manual which concerns EB-5 investors. The policy clarified the “Period of Sustainment” as the Conditional... Read More
EB-5 Investment Voice - Mona Shah & Associates Global Podcast Series Reported by Hermione Krumm, Esq. EB-5 Investment Voice is the only Podcast series that focuses on the United States immigrant investor visa, EB-5 and foreign direct investment... Read More
By Matt Starosciak “Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.” Peter Shaffer Playwright Marketing gives rise to natural conflicts, which are important to identify and manage... Read More
By Matt Starosciak You can waste an incredible amount of time networking with the wrong people, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and for the wrong reasons. I recently had a 7-year associate at a client firm ask me for advice about networking... Read More
Posted by Kathy Bazoian Phelps Below is a summary of the activity reported for July 2018. The reported stories reflect at least 10 new Ponzi schemes worldwide; over 40 years of newly imposed sentences for people involved in Ponzi schemes; 3 guilty... Read More
It’s time to get organized. Push your case management and presentation into the 21 st century. Some attorneys are still buried in litigation case files—piles of paper documents, manila folders and filing cabinets, convinced that the... Read More
By Mona Shah, Esq. On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, the DHS appropriations bill, passed on a party-line vote of 29–22. All EB5 practitioners should be alarmed as the bill has fatal consequences for almost all of the employment-based visa preferences... Read More
By Mona Shah, Esq. and Rebecca S. Singh, Esq. At first sight, one could be excused for thinking that this was an article relating to cricket, after all With economic growth averaging 6 percent over the last two decades, South Asia has one of the world’s... Read More