Washington DC, December 20, 2017 – USCIS issued guidance dated November 20, 2017 entitled “TN Nonimmigrant Economists Are Defined by Qualifying Business Activity.” The purpose of the new policy guidance was to define the occupation of economist for TN visa petitions. The guidance issued by...
Washington D.C., Dec. 8, 2017 - The House and Senate passed a Continuing Resolution, H.J. Res. 123 on Thursday, December 7, 2017, that extends the federal budget and government agency functions until December 22, 2017. The Continuing Resolution was signed into law by the President...
Washington, D.C., December 8, 2017 – According to an opinion piece published in The Hill newspaper, the current Director of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”) believes that the United States should eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery, and restrict family-based immigration. The Diversity Visa Lottery is...
Washington, D.C., December 5, 2017: When making travel plans for the approaching winter holidays, foreigners in the U.S. should plan to obtain and carry certain immigration documents to assist with a smooth border procedure on their return to the U.S. We summarize some of the typical...
Washington, D.C., December 5, 2017: As reported in an August news item by I.A. Donoso & Associates, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) previously announced a rule which delayed the implementation of the International Entrepreneur parole category until March 2018 (the “Delay Rule”). The International...
Washington, D.C. – November 27, 2017: Having travelled to India frequently during the last 12 months, attorneys Ignacio Donoso and Dennis Tristani at I.A. Donoso & Associates have met with dozens of successful and fascinating families from India, who have posed many interesting questions concerning...
Washington, D.C. – November 20, 2017: The recent USCIS EB-5 Stakeholder Engagement held in New York on November 7, 2017 provided some frank statements by USCIS that their EB-5 processing system has improved, but is still suffering from certain longstanding problems. One issue that will sound...
Washington, D.C., November 13, 2017 - U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”) held a public meeting with stakeholders in the EB-5 industry in New York City on November 7, 2017. The Stakeholders Meeting provided very helpful information regarding EB-5 visa process and USCIS analysis of...
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”) recently announced that it would begin requiring in-person interviews for employment-based immigrant visa applications (i.e., “green card” applicants) filed after March 6, 2017. This new policy does not change the process for visa applicants residing outside the U.S. It...
October 2017 Many EB-5 projects make use of a variety of different sources of funds, of which EB-5 investments are only one part. However, for many projects, the process of raising investments from EB-5 investors often takes many months, causing uncertainty for project developers about the...
