Such quotas are deemed available only to new applicants. This is of particular significance to Indian born applicants, as without the benefit of set-aside visas, they are likely to experience delays in the award of green cards. The quota is limited to 70 green cards which, at 3 green cards per application approximates to 23 applicants on a first come first served basis. Here is what UCIS say. ALERT: Beginning Sept. 1, 2022, [...]

Regional Center EB-5 Program is opening for new applicants Residency Invest is delighted to announce that late on Friday, a U.S.  federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop USCIS from deauthorizing EB-5 Regional Centers under the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act (“RIA”), and ordering USCIS to accept and process I-526 visa petitions from new applicants. We are advising all applicants who haven’t done so already, to now engage an immigration attorney [...]

RC EB-5 remains frozen. Direct EB-5 available now. For applicants who are ready to apply, we have a Direct EB-5 subscription in a project which is already operational and generating revenues. Annual returns: 2% - 3%. Job creation: >300% of min requirement. TEA compliant. EB-5 leads directly to U.S. green cards.  

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 or lose their operating licenses.Behring Regional Center is challenging a key USCIS interpretation of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 that was enacted on March [...]

We do have a single Direct EB-5 subscription available now for immediate filing. This subscription would be ideal for a family with children approaching the age of 21 therefore at risk of ‘ageing out’ due to the ongoing delays in the resumption of the Regional center program.  Regional Center EB-5 Although the EB-5 Regional Center program was reauthorized on March 15, 2022 the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA) determined [...]

USCIS Resumes Processing of I 526 Applications, April 11, 2022 Update. From UCSIS: We have resumed processing regional center-based Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, filed on or before the sunset of the previous regional center program on June 30, 2021. We will adjudicate all Form I-526 petitions filed before March 15, 2022, according to the applicable eligibility requirements at the time such petitions were filed (that is, the eligibility requirements [...]

On 29th March 2022, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced bureaucratic changes to address severe visa processing backlogs.Residency Invest welcomes these long overdue processing time improvements which USCIS finally acknowledges have worsened in recent years. They have now set new ‘Cycle Time’ processing goals. Under this announcement, USCIS targets an I-526 processing goal to 6 months (from date of filing).Full article below, courtesy of the USCIS website. WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. [...]

We are pleased to announce that the EB-5 Program is now reauthorized. On March 15th, President Biden signed into law the ‘EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act 2022’ - reauthorizing EB-5 until September 30th 2027 with some important provisions for both existing and new applicants. This is the first time since 2015 we have had a long term reauthorization of EB-5, finally giving us long term stability on the Programme.Firstly, and most importantly, [...]