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A Conversation with USCIS

By Kate Kalmykov on May 19, 2013
Posted in EB-5 Program, USCIS Public Engagement

By: James Cormie

On May 23, 2013, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will hold a “conversation” regarding the implementation of the new Electronic Immigration System (ELIS). ELIS will transform the current EB-5 paper submission system into an online submission.

At the stakeholder teleconference on March 28, there were several concerns regarding the repeated submission of the documents filed at earlier stages with their Form I-526. USCIS plans to address this issue by adding a “document library” to ELIS so that investors may easily access documents related to the new commercial enterprise submitted with their I-924 Application for a Regional Center and attach them to their Form I-526. This simplifies the administrative hassle of submitting repetitive documents.

The conversation will teach filers the ins and the outs of the system and solicit feedback. If you are interested in participating in person, be quick to sign up as in-person registration is limited to 25 people.

To join in person, email public.engagement@uscis.dhs.gov no later than May 22, 2013. Include your name, the organization you represent and reference “ELIS EB-5” in the subject line.  To call in, visit the registration page before the same date, May 22, 2013. To dial in call: 1-800-857-0174 and with passcode: ELIS.

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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

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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 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.

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