Last week, Greenberg Traurig EB-5 attorney Laura Reiff spoke at the first of many monthly informational sessions hosted by the city of Miami’s Office of International Business Development.

The event began with a press conference with the mayor of Miami in City Hall and was followed by a widely attended informational session focusing on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. Reiff discussed the nuances of the EB-5 program, challenges faced by entrepreneurs seeking EB-5 funding and federal securities regulations compliance.

The city of Miami received EB-5 designation earlier this year, and is the only regional center owned, managed and supervised by a municipality. By utilizing the EB-5 investment program, the city expects to increase foreign investment in Miami, which will translate into the creation of thousands of new jobs and economic growth for both the city and the entire South Florida region.

 

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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.