eb-5 visa – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com The Official Blog of FAIR Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:25:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 https://www.immigrationreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-IR-Favicon-100x100.png eb-5 visa – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com 32 32 EB-5 Exempt from Trump’s Executive Order https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/23/investor-visa-executive-order-trump-immigrationreform-com/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:25:06 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=22867 President Donald Trump issued an executive order on April 22 barring some classes of immigrant and non-immigrant visas. The eight section proclamation notes that “we must be mindful of the impact of foreign workers on the United States labor market, particularly in an environment of high domestic unemployment and depressed demand for labor.” The executive [...]

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]]> Why Reward China With Investor-Visa Expansion? https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/03/25/china-eb5-investor-visa-program-immigrationreform-com/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:27:05 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=22679 A controversial immigration program that awards U.S. visas to wealthy investors, mostly Chinese, could be expanding. The White House is reported to be considering a proposal to increase the number of EB-5 green cards from 10,000 to 75,000 annually and slashing required investments from $900,000 to $450,000. This comes just months after the administration tightened [...]

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]]> Between Two EB-5 Bills, Only One Offers Real Reform https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/02/04/eb-5-investor-visa-congress-immigrationreform-com/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:49:40 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=22460 The legal industry news website Law360 released a short comparison of two bills that look to change the way the controversial EB-5 investor visa system works. Both come from the Senate, where senators may look to address the program following the conclusion of the impeachment trial. The EB-5 program is simple on paper. Wealthy foreigners [...]

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]]> ‘Parole’ Bill Doubles Down on Cash-for-Visas Racket https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/12/09/investor-visa-senate-bill-immigrationreform-com/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:52:03 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=22275 Just in time for Christmas, Congress is cooking up a bill to “parole in” 73,000 foreign nationals awaiting green cards. The legislation — nullifying or watering down new regulations designed to rein in America’s scandal-plagued EB-5 investor-visa system — would blow up the program’s admissions cap, set at 10,000 annually. The draft bill empowers the [...]

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]]> New EB-5 Rules Represent Overdue Reform of Fraud-Ridden Program https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/07/23/new-eb-5-rules-blow-fraud-abuse-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/07/23/new-eb-5-rules-blow-fraud-abuse-immigrationreform-com/#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:48:35 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=21734 After more than two years in the works, the new rules to modernize and reform the exceedingly-flawed EB-5 investor program have finally been published in the Federal Register. While the news may sound like something of importance to only Washington policy wonks, the proposed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rules represent the first significant changes [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/07/23/new-eb-5-rules-blow-fraud-abuse-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 2 The EB-5 Investor Visa Program Deserves To Die Now https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/04/17/the-eb-5-investor-visa-program-deserves-to-die-now-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/04/17/the-eb-5-investor-visa-program-deserves-to-die-now-immigrationreform-com/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:25:58 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=21376 The intention behind the EB-5 investor visa program was noble. Spur economic growth in impoverished parts of the U.S. by allowing foreign nationals to obtain green cards in exchange for investing at least $1,000,000 in a new commercial enterprise. The reality of the EB-5, however, is different as the program has been a bigger financial [...]

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