Karen Caco

EB-5 immigration attorney Karen Caco is the managing director and a senior attorney at International Immigration Services, PA, headquartered in Naples, Fla, with offices in San Diego, and in Ontario and Toronto, Canada. Attorney Caco is certified by the Pepperdine University School of Law at the Strauss Institute, where she received her training, to act as an arbitrator, mediator and dispute resolutionist. She has experience assisting clients from across the nation and from around the world and more than two decades of experience practicing business immigration. She assists both foreign corporations and businesses in the United States plan immigration strategies.

Attorney Caco regularly travels the United States and the world to assist clients, including individuals and businesses, with their immigration plans. Her two decades of experience practicing immigration law make her very knowledgeable; many state and local newspapers have interviewed her various times and she has also been interviewed by ABC and NBC. Twice a month, she authors columns on immigration for different online and print magazines. She concentrates her practice on regional center start-ups, business immigration, regional center green cards, million dollar green cards, L1, H-1B and E2 visas, worldwide consular assistance and complex appeals. In addition, she helps many individuals at different U.S. embassies across the world and is considered the leading consular processing expert and EB-5 Regional Center lawyer. She is involved in all areas of immigration law.

Attorney Caco completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Ontario, Canada at the McMaster University in Hamilton and her Juris Doctorate degree in Wilmington, Del. at the Widener University School of Law. She is admitted to the Middle District Court of Florida and is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and the Bar of the state of Florida. Additionally, she is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA), the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the International Bar Association in London, U.K., the Lee County Bar Association, the Canadian American Bar Association, the Collier County Bar Association and the Collier County Women’s Bar Association.

Additionally, she has authored many newsworthy articles on the topic of business immigration, including “Spreading Like Wildfire! What Explains the Explosive Growth of EB-5 Regional Centers?” published in 2010 by Thomson Reuters in Immigration Briefings and “Now for the Hard Part: Attracting Investors to EB-5 Regional Centers” published in 2010 by Thomson Reuters in Immigration Briefings. Attorney Caco is also the one and only attorney practicing immigration law to have visited every regional center approved by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and has distributed the regional center stories on DVD for education through her website. She also travels the world to speak at different seminars on immigration, EB-5 green cards, EB-5 Regional Center investments and consular processing.