Tapping the Mic: Why Specialized Podcasts Are Crucial to Selecting Investment Migration Programs
Investment migration may seem like a gamble to investors seeking viable international living. But guidance from podcasts may help. Link to Source
The UK Closing Its Non-Dom Regime Could Turn Out to Be a Big Mistake
The UK has offered a special tax status to non-domiciled residents since the late 1700s. However, the British government recently announced it is dispensing with this colonial-era law, implying significant consequences for many international residents, businesses, and even the UK economy. So, what exactly was… Source
Stopgap Measures: Will Feinstein Replacement Laphonza Butler Echo CA Senator’s EB-5 Criticism?
Though lauded by many for her achievements on issues ranging from reproductive rights to gun control, the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein was no friend to EB-5—even going so far as to cosponsor a bill in 2017 to eliminate the program. While matching Feinstein’s seminal tenure in the public service outside … Read more
Vague Guidance, Cosmetic Solutions Mar USCIS’s Tweaked Regional Center Sustainment Policy
Given the scarcity of clarification from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) on its ambiguous mandates surrounding sustainment of EB-5 investments in regional centers, the agency’s announcement today of guidance on this issue pricked up practitioners’ ears in anticipation. Unfortunately, USCIS’s explanations may well have muddied the waters further, though … Read more
Writ on the Wall: As Court Weighs EB-5 Investors’ Appeal, Practitioners Question Mandamus’ Worth
At an unfamiliar crossroads in the wake of the D.C. Circuit Court’s troubling dismissal of three Writs of Mandamus cases alleging that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) unreasonably delayed the adjudication of investors’ EB-5 petitions, practitioners who have depended on these legal demands for information need to ask themselves … Read more
Continued Uncertainty for EB-5 & Migration Industries in Wake of Chinese Executive’s Arrest
As the dust settles following the Chinese government’s arrest of Wailian Group President Linda He—whose company, one of the country’s most successful investment-migration firms, has purportedly served more than 5,000 investors—the EB-5 and citizenship-by-investment (“CBI”) communities have begun to reassess the possible impact of this news vis-a-vis the Chinese market. … Read more
Risky Business: AI’s Adoption by USCIS, EU Gov’ts Illuminates EB-5 Obstacles
Trick question: Could the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) be the answer to EB-5 practitioners’ woes … or will it just add to them, making delays and other inefficiencies worse? While the burgeoning technology continues to make inroads into governments both overseas and … Read more