The EB-5 program has caught the interest of local Chinese media following the successful two day US China India Investment and Business Forum hosted by Artisan Business Group.  Sing Tao Daily newspaper interviewed event speakers regarding the EB-5 visa program.  More information in Chinese can be found here: http://chineseofchicago.com.  Likewise,  CCTV (China Central Television) prepared an insightful segment on the program entitled U.S. Visa Program: Benefits of EB-5 which can be viewed here:  http://english.cntv.cn/program/bizasiaamerica/20120829/102840.shtml. The interview features Brian Su, economist Scott Barnhart, as well as myself.  CCTV is the largest  state-owned television network in China.
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Kate Kalmykov Co-Chairs the Immigration & Compliance Practice. She focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors

Kate Kalmykov Co-Chairs the Immigration & Compliance Practice. She focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary ability and immigrant investors.

Kate has deep experience working on EB-5 immigrant investor matters. She regularly works with developers across a variety of industries, as well as private equity funds on developing new projects that qualify for EB-5 investments. This includes creation of new Regional Centers, having projects adopted by existing Regional Centers or through pooled individual EB-5 petitions. For existing Regional Centers, Kate regularly helps to prepare amendment filings, file exemplar petitions, address removal of conditions issues and ensure that they develop an internal program for ongoing compliance with applicable immigration regulations and guidance. She also counsels foreign nationals on obtaining greencards through either individual or Regional Center EB-5 investments, as well as issues related to I-829 Removal of Conditions.

Kate also works with various human resources departments on I-9 employment verification matters as well as H-1B and LCA compliance. She regularly counsels employers on due diligence issues including internal audits and reviews, as well as minimization of exposure and liabilities in government investigations.