Jennifer Hermansky is an associate EB-5 immigration attorney at Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Philadelphia. Attorney Hermansky focuses her legal practice on both family and employment-based immigration matters. As a member of the firm’s EB-5 immigrant investor team, attorney Hermansky is extremely well-versed in EB-5 immigration matters. She has filed many successful I-526 petitions for individuals who invested through regional centers, as well as for those who invested as individuals. Attorney Hermansky has also filed numerous I-829 petitions to remove any conditions on EB-5 investors’ permanent resident status. She routinely assists businesses and developers identify prospective EB-5 funding options for new projects.
Attorney Hermansky also has ample experience editing and reviewing EB-5-related project business plans, securities offering documents, corporate documents and economic reports. She has overseen I-924 applications for regional center amendments, regional center designation, and exemplar I-526 petitions for USCIS project pre-approval. Attorney Hermansky also assists regional centers in maintaining compliance when it comes to job creation requirements, record keeping, reporting requirements, and other regional center budgetary, management, and staffing issues.
Attorney Hermansky is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Immigration & Nationality Law, Administrative Law Division and is co-chair of AILA’s new members division of the Philadelphia chapter. She earned her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Drexel University in 2005 and went on to earn her law degree cum laude from Drexel University's Earle Mack School of Law in 2009. Attorney Hermansky joined Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer as a legal assistant in 2003. She then worked as a law clerk for the firm after earning admission to law school in 2009.
The I-829 petition is the final step in the EB-5 process, removing conditions on permanent resident status based on documentation to the USCIS of job creation. It is important to present the correct documentation for job creation which is different for direct jobs calculated for a direct investment, and indirect or induced jobs through Regional Center projects....
Why it’s important for EB-5 investors and their dependents to maintain a residency in the U.S., pay required taxes, avoid public benefit programs and avoid all criminal activity both before and after receiving a permanent green card....
Retrogression and redeployment is an increasingly important topic, especially for Chinese EB-5 applicants. What do EB-5 applicants or potential EB-5 investors and migration agents need to know? Immigration lawyers Matthew Galati and Jennifer Hermansky explain....
Jennifer Hermansky reviews the necessary documents for a hotel-based EB-5 petition in addition to the top current issues affecting hotel EB-5 cases....
Recent I-526 adjudications indicate a USCIS policy change on using loans secured by property for EB-5 investment....
EB-5 investors, under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, may now begin to apply for Targeted Employment Area desgination for EB-5 projects....
Is hard evidence of model derived direct jobs required at the I-829 stage? Learn about interpreting this Policy Memo ambiguity....
Yesterday, on May 30, 2013, USCIS issued the Final EB-5 Adjudications Policy Memorandum, including changes and clarifications to Regional Center Amendments; hypothetical, actual or exemplar project approvals; deference to prior decisions; TEA designations; and more. ...
Senator Leahy’s Amendment 2 to S. 744, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill, provides many enhancements and changes to the EB-5 Program and EB-5 Regional Center program. Senator Grassley’s Amendment did not pass....
