Ali Brodie will serve as a speaker at the 2013 Urban Land Institute Hotel Development Council Spring Meeting in Coronado, California on Thursday, May 16th. The workshop is
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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 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.
EB-5 Amendment Set for Vote
Senator Leahy’s Amendment 2 to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill, S. 744 provides that, at the I-829 stage, there is a presumption that 10 indirect jobs have been created per…
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U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou Stops Visa Interviews
U.S. officials are reporting that an employee found and opened an envelope containing a “powder.” As a result, the U.S. Consulate General shut down the Tianyu office for two…
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Senator Leahy Proposes EB-5 Amendment to Immigration Reform Bill
Laura Reiff has published an article on EB-5 Visa Blog analyzing the recent EB-5 amendment proposed by Senator Patrick Leahy to The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act…
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Greenberg Traurig Recognized as Top 25 Corporate Law Firm
Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate & Securities Practice has been recognized by Corporate Board Member magazine on its U.S. list of the Top 25 National Law Firm General Counsel’s Rankings. According to…
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California Announces New TEA Policy
Jennifer Hermansky and James Cormie published an article on EB-5 Visa Blog outlining the state of California’s recently updated TEA (Targeted Employment Area) Policy. The California Governor’s Office of Business…
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USCIS Ombudsman’s Office Meeting Highlights EB-5 Program Challenges
On March 5, 2013, the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (“USCIS Ombudsman’s Office”) held a meeting for stakeholders of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program (“EB-5 program”) to…
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Greenberg Traurig Continues to Expand Business Immigration and Compliance Practice in Philadelphia
We are excited to continue to grow our Business Immigration and Compliance Practice in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Attorneys Jennifer Hermansky and Nataliya Rymer joined the firm earlier this…
Positive Changes Introduced for EB-5 Program as Part of the Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill
Yesterday, marked the release of the 844 page Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. The comprehensive immigration reform will was spearheaded by the “Gang of Eight”…
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GT Sponsors 2013 National EB-5 Finance Seminar Tour in Atlanta
2013 National EB-5 Finance Seminar Tour
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM – Registration
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM – Program
EB-5 Regional Center Development & Investors …
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