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How Would Proposed EB-5 Legislation Affect Individual Investors? https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/questions.jpg 500 318 Michele Franchett Michele Franchett https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/682142c5d71f9c57dc624eda4aa8d5049962a816ebe5177cff6265964e8d538d?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 14, 2016 June 4, 2019

Michele Franchett
October 14, 2016

How Would Proposed EB-5 Legislation Affect Individual Investors?

The EB-5 Regional Center Immigrant Investor Program is due to expire on December 9, 2016, and the United States Congress is considering reauthorization legislation. Considerable controversy abounds, but the focus of this post is to summarize those provisions in H.R. 5992 that would impact individual investors if they are enacted into law. H.R. 5992 is…

SGG attorneys voted Southern California Top Women Immigration Lawyers…again! https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LA-MAG-September-2016.jpg 1200 1575 Andrew Grzegorek Andrew Grzegorek https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bfcf6c32f1e20f44f15eeab33bd1e499a3c00d2be0f4327095e64c463b7f8283?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 7, 2016 June 4, 2019

Andrew Grzegorek
October 7, 2016

SGG attorneys voted Southern California Top Women Immigration Lawyers…again!

SGG attorneys named to exclusive Super Lawyers list of Top Women in Southern California in Los Angeles Magazine Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP congratulates its Super Lawyers Top Women: Partners Kathy Grzegorek, Josie Gonzalez, and Heather Poole. Selected by peer review, our attorneys are trusted to handle diverse U.S. immigration cases. The Super Lawyers stringent selection process is what sets…

International Entrepreneurs – A New Proposed Immigration Option Published by USCIS https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/man-1205084_1920.jpg 1920 1331 Michele Franchett Michele Franchett https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/682142c5d71f9c57dc624eda4aa8d5049962a816ebe5177cff6265964e8d538d?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 26, 2016 June 4, 2019

Michele Franchett
August 26, 2016

International Entrepreneurs – A New Proposed Immigration Option Published by USCIS

Click here to view the Spanish translation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) published a final rule on January 17, 2017, that will – effective July 17, 2017, allow international entrepreneurs who will have an active and central role in the operations of a start-up entity to apply for parole so that they may start or…

Emerging EB-5 Markets Spotlight: South Africa https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SAFlag.jpg 781 936 Michael Harris Michael Harris https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fd1d44670a710408f70b5d9e4ef11e8f5dd40e9145de6c6359d071a467068cd4?s=96&d=mm&r=g June 13, 2016 June 4, 2019

Michael Harris
June 13, 2016

Emerging EB-5 Markets Spotlight: South Africa

Originally published March 17, 2016 South Africa has 99 problems… and one of them is the country’s very own “JZ,” President Jacob Zuma, whom many South Africans accuse of seeking short-term political gains at the expense of the country’s long-term interests. In December 2015, President Zuma sacked his Finance Minister, Nhalnhla Nene, and in the…

Congress Implements Changes to Visa Waiver Program https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/USCONGRESS.jpg 2048 1536 Andrew Grzegorek Andrew Grzegorek https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bfcf6c32f1e20f44f15eeab33bd1e499a3c00d2be0f4327095e64c463b7f8283?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 28, 2016 June 4, 2019

Andrew Grzegorek
April 28, 2016

Congress Implements Changes to Visa Waiver Program

Originally published March 29, 2016 The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) permits citizens of 38 countries to travel to the United States for business or tourism for stays of up to 90 days without a visa. On January 21, 2016, Congress implemented changes to the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015,…

Investing Cash From Loan Proceeds: A New Interpretation Of “Indebtedness” https://www.sggimmigration.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/81848b59-1206-3c3e-8884-db1ec82916bc.jpg 290 232 Lincoln Stone Lincoln Stone https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1802a154abc7bf9e9f91b220501208a6fac960ada1fd9cb2968c0176fe1a0bad?s=96&d=mm&r=g February 29, 2016 June 4, 2019

Lincoln Stone
February 29, 2016

Investing Cash From Loan Proceeds: A New Interpretation Of “Indebtedness”

I. A New Standard, And An Old Problem In the April 22 public engagement with the EB-5 stakeholder community, the Immigrant Investor Program Office (“IPO”) articulated a new adjudications standard that precludes the EB-5 investor’s use of loan proceeds as a source of investment capital unless the investor shows that the promise to repay the loan…