Greenberg Traurig has been selected to serve as the United States co-host for the U.S. Investment Immigration Forum 2014 Conference in Shenzhen, China. The conference is scheduled for March 17– 19th at the Ming Wah Int’l Convention Centre, and promises to attract  EB-5 industry leaders from around the globe, including regional center representatives, U.S. immigration economists and tax experts, immigration services associations, migration agents, and more.

This exclusive event will afford EB-5 regional centers and projects a unique opportunity to interact and network with representatives from leading migration agencies in China and exit-entry associations. The conference will be broadcasted throughout Asia via several television companies, including Shenzhen Cable Digital High Definition TV, Guangzhou Cable TV, Beijing Cable TV, Shenzhen Cable TV “Immigration & Overseas Study” Channel and Shenzhen Panoramic Culture Communications Co., Ltd.  In addition to GT’s involvement as a co-host, EB-5 Attorney Kate Kalmykov is slated to deliver a keynote at the U.S. Investment Immigration Forum 2014 Conference and Host Dinner on March 17th.

To register for this event please contact Kate Kalmykov at kalmykovk@gtlaw.com. GT clients and contacts will receive a group discount and registration is limited.

 

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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.