Since 2023, the U.S. government requires all persons and companies engaged in promoting investments in the EB-5 immigration program to register with USCIS before promoting investments, and thereafter, to remain in compliance with the USCIS rules. Applicants not working through a registered agent risk denial...
Washington D.C., March 13, 2023: News broke over the weekend that three U.S. banks were being shuttered by U.S. banking regulators because they were experiencing financial constraints. Of these three banks, one would be familiar to many EB-5 investors: Signature Bank. Many EB-5 Regional Centers...
On January 3, 2023, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule to adjust certain immigration and naturalization filing fees. If implemented, applicants will have to pay significantly more for immigrant filings. The proposed rule is subject to a 60-day comment...
Washington, D.C., November 1, 2022: Ignacio Donoso, founder and Managing Partner of Donoso & Partners, has once again been recognized as Top 25 Immigration Attorney by EB-5 Investors Magazine for 2022. The Top 25 recognition for Ignacio is a testament to the work of Donoso &...
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2022: USCIS announced today that it would allow persons to use List B Dates for Filing during October 2022. This announcement is significant because the October 2022 Visa Bulleting just released announced visa retrogression in several visa categories. List B Dates for Filing,...
Washington, D.C., August 25, 2022: USCIS and the plaintiffs in two important lawsuits reached a settlement on August 24, 2022 that confirms the certification of EB-5 Regional Centers approved by USCIS before the effective date of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (“RIA”). The...
Washington, D.C., June 27, 2022: On June 24, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of California issued a Preliminary Injunction blocking USCIS from requiring new I-956 re-designation applications from EB-5 Regional Centers designated prior to the effective date of the EB-5 Reform and...
San Francisco, June 3, 2022: News from the Behring Regional Center lawsuit from the federal court in San Francisco appears to indicate that USCIS will lose its efforts to require EB-5 regional centers existing prior to March 15, 2022 to apply to USCIS for re-certification...
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2022: Today USCIS released two critical new forms for the renewed EB-5 Regional Center visa program. The first is the business plan approval form. Under the new rules of the EB-5 Regional Center program, every approved regional center must file an...
Washington, D.C. – IIUSA, the national trade association of the EB-5 Regional Center industry, along with five of its EB-5 Regional Center members collectively filed a lawsuit yesterday in the District Court of the District of Columbia against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (Civ....
