EB-5 Investors Visa

Regional Center EB-5 Program is opening for new applicants Residency First 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…

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…

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. Click here to request further information. Regional Center…

On 29th March 2022, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced bureaucratic changes to address severe visa processing backlogs. Residency First 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…

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…

EB-5 Reauthorization has now officially been added to the Federal Omnibus Spending Bill by the House of Representatives, and is expected to be signed in before the deadline. Language contained in the Omnibus bill titled ‘EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act 2022’ will reauthorize EB-5 until September 30th 2027 with some important provisions for both existing…

A significant possibility exists that the EB-5 program will reauthorise on February 22 with an increase in the investment requirement from the present $500,000 to between $700,000 & $750,000. Applicants in the process of applying via Direct EB-5 should consider whether to file their I-526’s by February 21, 2022 as any investment increase in EB-5…

September 30, 2021. The U.S. Congress passed a continuing resolution backing the government’s existing appropriations until the 3rd of December, 2021. Unfortunately, this continuing resolution does not include a reauthorization of the EB-5 Regional Center program, which has not been reauthorized since June 30. Actions on I-426 and I-526 petitions will continue to be deferred…

We correctly predicted over a month ago that the $500 window would open. Unfortunately, when it came, it did so for just 7 days before closing on June 30.  Many of our clients did succeed in filing their EB-5 visa applications on time, but unfortunately, some simply ran out of time, or were informed by…

News 22 June: US District Court for the Northern District of California. Behring wins action against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reversing the November 2019 legislation back to $500,000 (From $900,000).