The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a final rule that makes a number of significant changes to its EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. The final rule will become effective on Nov. 21, 2019. ...
About Bernard P Wolfsdorf
Bernard P. Wolfsdorf is an immigration attorney and a managing partner at Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP (WR Global Immigration) an immigration law firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, Santa Monica, San Francisco and Shanghai. Wolfsdorf has been designated as a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California for over 25 years.
WR Global Immigration is known worldwide for its excellence in providing value and top-quality global immigration representation.
Chambers USA – California rated only three firms as Tier 1, including WR Global Immigration. He has been consistently rated as “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell and was selected as the “2018 Lawyer of the Year for Los Angeles” by U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers in America. Wolfsdorf serves on the American Immigration Lawyers Association's EB-5 committee and he is a past national president of AILA, where he was awarded its Service Excellence Award for his voluntary contributions. EB5 Investors Magazine has named him in its Top 25 immigration lawyers for the past 5 years.
He is a frequent speaker and author on EB-5 topics. The firm is known for providing innovative solutions to complex issues for its clients and handles a broad range of global mobility cases. WR Global has developed the most advanced Immigrant Management System available – WRapid - that has transformed the practice of immigration law. Chambers USA describes him as “[o]ne of the hardest-working immigration lawyers around.”
Answers to EB-5 1902 Questions Answered
- How can I apply for I-485 before my parents get EB-5 visas?
- What are the restrictions on medical conditions for potential immigrants?
- How long in advance can an EB-5 investor apply to extend his status with a pending I-829?
- What is the progress of the S.386 bill?
- How does USCIS calculate the extended stay outside the U.S. for green card holders?
- What happens to the investors at the I-829 stage after their project goes bankrupt?
- What could happen to my conditional green card if the EB-5 project fails?
- How can I use an EB-5 visa to travel abroad and reenter the U.S.?
- How can I study in the U.S. with a pending I-485 case?
- How many reentry permits can a green card holder get?
- How can an international student use a lottery prize for EB-5?
- How can I apply for an F-1 visa with an approved I-526?
- How can I apply for citizenship while my I-829 has been pending for over five years?
- Why is my I-485 case not assigned for processing after submission for several months?
- Do EB-5 dependents have to take the visa interview together with the principal applicants?
- How long does I-526 approval take for a direct investment?
- What is the processing time for an I-290b Motion to Reopen a denied I-829?
- How can I establish a special investment vehicle to attract EB-5 investors?
- How can I return to the U.S. with an advance parole card while I have an H-1b visa application under administrative processing?
- What are my options when the priority date is overdue?
- How long does it take now to process an expedited EB-5 case?
- What documents do we need to provide if my parents gift me money for my EB-5 application?
- Can I renew my passport if I already have my EB-5 visa interview scheduled?
- What is a common ROI for an EB-5 investment?
- How can EB-5 investors allocate their capital in a direct investment?
- How can I accompany my minor child in the U.S. who has an F-1 visa if I have an approved I-526 application?
- How can I transfer assets of a foreign company to the U.S. for my EB-5 application?
- What should I do if my regional center gets terminated when my I-829 is pending?
- Under what circumstance would a criminal record impact an EB-5 case?
- What should I do about the inaccuracy of information in my DS-260 form?
- Do I have to go through consular processing if I am abroad when my EB-5 case gets approved?
- How can my company participate in the EB-5 program?
- How should I report the return of investment capital for tax purposes if I withdraw my EB-5 application?
- Do I still need an H-1b visa to stay in the U.S. if I have an approved I-526?
- How can I get information about the progress of my EB-5 case?
- How could a divorce impact the EB-5 investors who used cross chargeability to avoid the backlog?
- How can I travel abroad before a green card is issued?
- How can I use an established business for EB-5?
- Where can I find a list of qualified regional centers with projects located in a TEA under the new rules?
- How could applying for Medicaid impact my pending I-829 application?
- In a redeployment scenario, do investors have to meet the new investment requirements of EB-5?
- How can I take investment from potential EB-5 investors?
- When could an EB-5 investor receive an advance parole card after submitting an I-485 application?
- Under what circumstances is it necessary for a dependent applicant of I-526 to file an I-824 application?
- Should an Italian investor apply for an E-2 visa first while his EB-5 application is pending?
- How can my son who becomes 21 during the administrative processing of our EB-5 visas enter the U.S.?
- What happens if I do not move to the U.S. after receiving an EB-5 visa?
- How can EB-5 dependents attend a visa interview if the principal applicant already gets a green card?
- How can I reinvest in an EB-5 project and retain my previous priority date?
- Why are visas for the EB-5 regional center program still unauthorized for December even though the program has been extended?
- How can I manage my EB-5 business with a visitor visa while waiting for my case to be approved?
- What are the tax liabilities on the foreign assets of the EB-5 investors?
- How could the new EB-5 rules impact the processing time of I-526 applications?
- What are my options if the EB-5 project I invested in fails at the conditional green card stage?
- How does the government’s budget extension impact the modernization changes of the EB-5 program, which were set to start Thursday?
- Do I need to own at least 50% of a company to be eligible for the EB-5 direct investment program?
- How could my EB-5 case be impacted if I apply for health insurance using federal subsidy?
- How can we switch the principal applicant of an EB-5 case?
- How can I correct a mistake on my DS-260 form?
- How can I travel back to the U.S. without a re-entry permit after being outside the country for over six months?
- What legal recourse does an investor have if the regional center does not provide the supporting documents for I-829 promptly?
- How can DACA beneficiaries participate in the EB-5 program?
- How can I still successfully file an EB-5 application before Nov. 21?
- What happens to my application if one of the other proposed EB-5 reform acts gets passed after Nov. 21?
- Is the age of EB-5 dependent children still frozen after the approval of I-526 and before a visa interview?
- What is the approximate cost and timeline of starting a regional center?
- How can I use capital earned from stocks for my EB-5 application?
- How does USCIS allocate the unused visas among EB-5 investors from backlogged countries?
- How can an EB-5 regional center provide different offers to EB-5 investors in the same NCE?
- What is the timeline of obtaining a reentry permit?
- How can EB-5 investors use their shares in an EB-5 project for loans?
- What is the standard range of return for EB-5 investors in a project where the EB-5 capital is structured as preferred equity?
- Could EB-5 investors from South Korea face the visa backlog anytime soon?
- How should I respond to the questions regarding immigrant petition history on the DS-160 form if I have pending EB-5 and EB-2 petitions?
- How can my 20-year-old daughter get a green card through the EB-5 program?
- How can I invest in a real estate development project and qualify for EB-5 without working with a regional center?
- How long can green card holders stay outside the U.S.?
- What are my options at the stage of redeployment if I do not want to invest in another project?
- What should an EB-5 investor do if the regional center is terminated by USCIS at the conditional green card stage?
- How can EB-5 investors with hepatitis B enter the U.S.?
- How can I enter the U.S. border with an expired conditional green card?
- What are the requirements on health insurance for EB-5 investors?
- What is the average time needed to process an I-526 petition?
- How can an EB-5 investor study or work in the U.S. with a pending adjustment of status application?
- How should a mainland China-born EB-5 investor estimate how long they need to wait before a visa number is available?
- How can an India-born investor get permanent residency if his priority date is current in Chart B but not in Chart A of the visa bulletin?
- How can I use my F-1 OPT to work for my own EB-5 company?
- How can an EB-5 investor whose EB-5 investment has failed stay in the U.S. with a valid conditional green card?
- What happens to my EB-5 case if I file before Nov. 21 but don’t get a receipt by then?
- How can my wife travel outside the U.S. with a pending I-539 application and a pending EB-5-based I-485 application?
- What is the minimum age for a minor to file an EB-5 petition?
- How can an EB-5 investor attract other investors with his direct EB-5 business?
- What happens to the ages of dependent children during EB-5 visa administrative processing?
- What should an EB-5 investor do if his passport expires before a DS-260 application is submitted?
- Why does the visa bulletin say unauthorized for EB-5 regional center programs?
- What happens if I cannot file my I-485 application in time as indicated in the visa bulletin?
- How can I enter the U.S. with an H-4 visa when I have a pending EB-5 case?
- How can I use intangible assets for my EB-5 investment?
- Other than EB-5, what options do mainland China-born investors have to get green cards?
- How can I work in the U.S. if I withdraw my EB-5 investment?
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