EB-5 Insights

The U.S. State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that they have issued all legally available visas in the unreserved EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program categories fo...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/08/21/us-department-of-state-announces-annual-limit-reached-in-eb-5-unreserved-category/

In recent months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has sent notices of intent to terminate (NOITs) to EB-5 regional centers that have not paid the “Integrity Fees” implemente...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/08/08/uscis-terminates-regional-centers-that-have-not-paid-ria-integrity-fees-implications-for-stakeholders/

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released new information on its website about the International Entrepreneur Rule’s (IER) eligibility criteria and acceptable evidence. It also...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/07/30/uscis-updates-guidance-and-increases-investment-and-revenue-thresholds-for-international-entrepreneurs/

On April 1, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began implementing a newly overhauled fee schedule, along with substantive changes to several of its forms used to petition or ...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/05/22/uscis-receipt-notice-delays-persist/

On April 9, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services introduced audit guidelines for EB-5 regional centers as part of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act. Prior to the RIA passage in 2022, USCIS i...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/05/07/how-eb-5-regional-centers-can-prepare-for-uscis-audits/

In an update to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule, USCIS updated the Form I-526 fee table to include the EB-5 Integrity Fund Fee, adding an additional $1,000 in f...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/05/03/uscis-updates-i-526e-filing-fee-schedule-to-include-1000-integrity-fund-fee-bringing-total-filing-fees-to-12160/

Earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would be publishing a “Months of Inventory” data point on its Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien I...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/04/12/uscis-adds-months-of-inventory-data-point-to-form-i-526/

The U.S. State Department has published the March 2024 Visa Bulletin. For EB-5 cases, the Chart A priority dates for the new “set aside” visa categories of rural areas, high unemployment area...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/02/12/march-2024-chart-b-aos-filings-disallowed-by-uscis/

On Jan. 30, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a final rule regarding the H-1B cap electronic registration process for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The announcement also ...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/02/08/uscis-announces-h-1b-cap-initial-registration-final-rule-for-fiscal-year-2025/

This 5 Trends piece covers USCIS filing fee increases, ongoing immigration compliance, the DOL, the H1-B Visa Program, and nonimmigrant workers and green card process changes. The post 5 Trends...

https://www.eb5insights.com/2024/01/31/5-trends-to-watch-2024-business-immigration/