Breaking News: legislative update on bill S. 1501 to authorize the EB-5 program by Greenberg Traurig advocate and EB-5 Investment Coalition founder, Laura Reiff.  We encourage everyone to listen to this podcast on this analysis and what it means for:

  1. EB-5 regional centers, developers and projects
  2. Individual EB-5 investors
  3. Migration agents and broker dealers working in the EB-5 industry

For the next two weeks Greenberg Traurig will address all questions related to the legislation and what it means to stakeholders.  Please send your questions to EB5options@gtlaw.com.  Questions and answers will be published on the blog daily as part of an interactive engagement for our followers.  For more info on the EB-5 legislative efforts please visit EB-5 Investment Coalition page.

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Photo of Kate Kalmykov Kate Kalmykov

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.