Investment Visa For foreign nationals who want a Green Card, the EB5 investment visa program is an attractive immigration option for retirees, entrepreneurs, investors and professionals who are able to make a substantial investment in the U.S. The Immigration Act of 1990 established the EB5 investment visa program to create U.S. jobs by attracting foreign capital to the United States. Every year 10,000 EB5 Green Cards are available with no curre... Read More

On January 21, 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a Q&A on ways to ensure that an Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker (Form I-140) will not be rejected. Some tips include: (more…)... Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on January 27, 2010, that it is reissuing Advance Parole (Form I-512) documents because some documents were mailed to applicants with an incorrect issue date of January 5, 1990. All affected documents have been identified and USCIS will automatically reissue those documents. USCIS said all advance parole documents continue to be valid because the expiration dates remain accurate. Theref... Read More

The Department of Labor recently released a list of important e-mail addresses pertaining to the PERM system, labor condition applications and prevailing wages, and H-2A/H-2B issues.... Read More

On January 20, 2010, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released an updated list (PDF) of schools approved under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.... Read More

The American Immigration Lawyers Association has released a chart showing Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) processing times by case type, as of January 4, 2010.... Read More

The Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (CNRA) extends certain provisions of U.S. immigration law to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for the first time. The transition period for this change began on November 28, 2009. Under the CNRA, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is establishing an E-2 CNMI investor classification, to allow foreign nationals who were admitted as long-term investors under the CNM... Read More

In November 2008, the United Kingdom (UK) Border Agency (UKBA) set out its plan to introduce a requirement for all non-British or European Economic Area (EEA) nationals applying for leave to enter or remain in the UK to register biometric data as part of their visa applications. An applicant's biometric data and permission to enter or remain in the UK is recorded in an Identity Card for Foreign Nationals (ICFN), replacing the vignette sticker pla... Read More

Donald Neufeld, Associate Director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Operations, released a memorandum on January 8, 2010, that provides guidance concerning the requirement that an H-1B petitioner establish that an employer-employee relationship exists and will continue to exist with the beneficiary throughout the duration of the requested H-1B validity period. The memo states that a lack of guidance clearly defining what co... Read More

EB5Visa The Immigration Act of 1990 established the EB5 Visa program to create U.S. jobs by attracting foreign capital to the United States. Every year 10,000 EB5 Visas are available. There is no quota waiting list for EB5 visas. The EB5 Visa program is an attractive immigration option for retirees, entrepreneurs, investors , professionals, and students who are able to make an investment. An investor can get an EB5 Visa almost as fast as on... Read More