Pictured are Greenberg Traurig attorneys Kate Kalmykov, left, and Jennifer Hermansky, right.

Greenberg Traurig EB-5 attorneys Kate Kalmykov, Jennifer Hermansky and Ali Brodie served as moderators and panelists at the Third Annual Southern California EB-5 Conference hosted by EB5 Investors Magazine this past Monday. EB-5 team members Dillon Colucci, William Mack, Cory Richards, Carrie Risatti and Catharine Yenalso attended among fellow EB-5 industry leaders with Kalmykov serving as conference co-host.

The conference drew more than 350 attendees, including Congressional speakers, immigration and securities attorneys, real estate developers, regional center representatives, economists and more. Discussions included the latest information about the EB-5 visa program, including topics covering legislative developments, securities law, regional center partnerships, immigration, marketing to investors and more.

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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.