New York City Immigration Law Blog
USCIS POLICY MANUAL UPDATE: EB-5 TENANT OCCUPANCY
USCIS is revising guidance on immigrant investor (EB-5) cases involving tenant occupancy.Previously, the USCIS Policy Manual allowed for tenant-occupancy methodologies to be used by petitioners to show that their capital created, or will create, 10 indirect jobs. The...
DHS PROPOSES TO REMOVE THE INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEUR RULE
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed a rule to end a program that allows certain foreign entrepreneurs to be considered for parole to temporarily come to the United States to develop and build start-up businesses in the United States, known as the...
DECLINE IN NUMBER OF EB5 INVESTOR APPLICATIONS
Recently the Investor Visa program observed decline in the EB5 investors from China. The news that the Chief Executive Mr. Peter Joseph of the Invest in the USA (IIUSA) is no loger associated with the organization has left the industry shocked. The industry is facing...
POLICY MANUAL UPDATE REAFFIRMING CONTINUING CPR STATUS PENDING I-829 REMOVAL OF CONDITIONAL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS FOR EB-5 IMMIGRANTS
On May 2, 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated a policy guidance in Volume 6, Part G of the USCIS Policy Manual restating the continuation of the documentation of conditional permanent resident (CPR)...
FINAL CHANCE TO FILE EB-5 INVESTOR PROGRAM PETITION AT THE $500,000 LEVEL BEFORE IT CHANGES FOREVER
The congress a month ago extended the deadline for filing the investor visa petitions as per the current requirements until March 23, 2018. Post this short term extension, the congress would be required to either reform the program through appropriations in the bill...
NJ TRANSIT CONDUCTOR SUSPENDED AFTER ALLEGED IMMIGRATION ANNOUNCEMENT
News was making rounds that a conductor on one of the NJ Transit trains was suspended from his duty recently as he made some immigration related announcements on the train.An NJ Transit conductor was suspended without pay after passengers on a Monday morning rush-hour...