Greenberg Traurig presented to potential investors in Vietnam in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on the EB-5 program last week.  Kate Kalmykov was in attendance as a guest speaker to discuss the Hot Topics in EB-5 for Vietnamese investors, providing the audience with the most current information on the proposed EB-5 legislation, potential increases in the TEA investment amount and how retrogression for Chinese based applicants impacts third country nationals.  Hundreds of investors attended the events, illustrative of the growing interest in the Vietnamese market.

Kate Kalmykov presents Hot Issues in EB-5 Processing for Vietnamese Investors.
Kate Kalmykov presents Hot Issues in EB-5 Processing for Vietnamese Investors.

Kate Kalmykov is welcomed to Vietnam by Ms. Vietnam
Kate Kalmykov is welcomed to Vietnam by Ms. Vietnam
Kate Kalmykov interviews with Vietnam TV reporters to discuss the EB-5 program.
Kate Kalmykov interviews with Vietnam TV reporters to discuss the EB-5 program.

 

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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.