Latest EB-5 News and Blog Posts

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - Next week, the success of IIUSA members will be celebrated at the Industry Forum in Orlando Florida, where FirstPathway Partners will receive an I-829 award for success in the EB-5 program over the course of 2020 to 2022.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - Yesterday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services (USCIS) announced a trio of efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens to the overall legal immigration system. USCIS will begin setting new agency-wide backlog reduction goals, expand premium processing to additional form types, and work to improve timely access to employment authorization documents.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - President Biden signed into law: H.R.

PRESS RELEASE
MARCH 11, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Congress Reauthorizes EB-5 Regional Center Program
Five-year authorization through September 30, 2027

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the agency’s new mission statement.

“USCIS upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve.” 

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the launch of a full Global Entry arrangement with the Government of Brazil (GOB). The full arrangement comes after a more limited pilot launched in November 2019, and will now increase the number of Brazilian citizens eligible for Global Entry.

Monday, January 24, 2022 - Earlier this year, IIUSA sent both a standalone and joint letter with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) to USCIS asking them to continue holding all pending EB-5 Regional Center Program-related petitions and applications in abeyance during the continued lapse of the EB-5 program.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - The U.S. Department of State published the monthly Visa Bulletin for February 2022. 

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - In an effort to protect good-faith EB-5 investors, IIUSA sent a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requesting the agency continue its 2021 policy to hold any pending immigrant investor petitions or applications awaiting EB-5 regional center program reauthorization. 

Tuesday, December 21, 2021 - The US Department of State has released its January 2022 Visa Bulletin, outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate immigrant visa availability and the flow of adjustment of status application and consular immigrant visa application filings a