This article was originally published by EB5 Investors.com here. By Carolyn S. Lee Scenario: The EB-5 loan has a 5 year maturity and the note is due. The project has been successful and is completed. All the jobs have been created, sufficient for all the EB-5...
Topic: Immigration Updates
Supreme Court Allows Implementation of Immigration Travel Ban 3.0: What This Means*
Supreme Court Allows Implementation of Immigration Travel Ban 3.0: What This Means* What happened at the Supreme Court yesterday? In late September, President Trump issued his third attempt at imposing travel restrictions on people from certain countries. We call...
Travel Ban Fact Sheet and FAQ
This factsheet was published on the White House website here. Background Every year, the United States grants lawful permanent resident status to approximately 1.1 million individuals from all across the world. In FY 2016, the United States issued approximately 10.4...
New Publications and Items of Interest for Early December
Advisories and tips: Community Advisory: Social Media, Criminalization, and Immigration has been published by the National Lawyers Guild's National Immigration Project. This advisory summarizes ways in which immigration agents may use social media against those in...
Miller Mayer’s Carolyn Lee and Kristal Ozmun to Speak at the 2017 AILA EB-5 Investors Summit in Las Vegas
Miller Mayer immigration attorneys Carolyn Lee and Kristal Ozmun will speak at the 2017 AILA EB-5 Investors Summit, to be held at the Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, on December 8-9. Ms. Lee will speak on the panel entitled “Hot Topics: Legislative and Agency...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted Regarding Deportations, H-1B Work Permits, International Entrepreneurs
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted recently in the following publications: La Opinion (Spanish), about the Trump administration's efforts to accelerate deportations. Mr. Yale-Loehr said, "Desde que este tipo de deportación se creó por ley en...
Federal Court Blocks Trump Order To Strip ‘Sanctuary Jurisdictions’ of Federal Funding
Following lawsuits by the counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara, California, federal district Judge William H. Orrick ruled against a provision of the Trump administration's executive order issued in January 2017 to block federal funds from "sanctuary...
DHS To Terminate TPS Designation for Haiti in July 2019
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke recently announced the termination of the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for Haiti with a delayed effective date of 18 months "to allow for an orderly transition before the designation terminates on July...
USCIS Designates Adopted Decisions Defining Affected Parties, Function Managers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has designated two Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decisions as Adopted Decisions. Matter of V-S-G Inc. (AAO Nov. 11, 2017), Adopted Decision 2017-06. This decision clarifies that beneficiaries of valid...
Federal Court Vacates Delay of International Entrepreneur Rule
On December 1, 2017, federal district Judge James E. Boasberg vacated the Trump administration's delay of an Obama-era rule that would have allowed certain foreign entrepreneurs to obtain immigration parole (to temporarily enter the United States despite lacking a...
