The Immigrant Investor Blog

Green and Spiegel Tops the Chambers and Partners Guide in Immigration

Stephen W. Green

Green and Spiegel has been awarded the highest honours in the Chambers and Partners Canadian Guide, receiving a Band 1 in the field of Immigration....

Overnight Reversal: Senate Advances Continuing Resolution (UPDATED)

Matthew Galati

In a happily surprising reversal from yesterday’s developments, the U.S. Senate today has advanced the Continuing Resolution which will exten...

Senate Rejects Continuing Resolution – Stakeholders Await New Compromise as Lawmakers Hash Non-Immigration Issues

Matthew Galati

The U.S. Senate today has failed to obtain sufficient votes to invoke cloture and advance the Continuing Resolution that would fund the U.S. govern...

U.S. House Releases Continuing Resolution; Would Extend EB-5 Regional Center Program to Dec. 9, 2016 Without Changes

Matthew Galati

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations released a much-awaited draft of a Continuing Resolution that would ext...

USCIS Updates Published EB-5 Processing Times as of Jul. 31, 2016

Jonathan Grode

Yesterday, USCIS updated its published EB-5 processing times, showing a slight uptick from last month. The current published processing times for e...

Update: Goodlatte Bill Formally Introduced; Committee Markup Postponed

Matthew Galati

As an update to our earlier post, on Monday, September 12, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) officially introduced H.R. 5992, "The American Job Creation an...

Congressman Goodlatte of Virginia Floats EB-5 Reform Bill

Matthew Galati

On September 9, 2016, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)’s office circulated the “American Job Creation and Investment Promotion Reform Act of ...

Why We Represent Immigrant Investors and Entrepreneurs

As once aptly put by columnist George Will, “Immigrating is an entrepreneurial act.”  Because we come from Canada and the United S...

Visa Backlog and Redeployment: Important issues for Investors and Agents

Matthew Galati

Senior Associate Attorney Matthew T. Galati co-authored “Visa Backlog and Redeployment: Important issues for Investors and Agents,” pub...

GAMECHANGER: USCIS Publishes Advance Version of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for International Entrepreneurs

Matthew Galati

Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published an advance copy of their proposed new regulatory rule that would allow certain in...