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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.

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With the looming September 30, 2015 expiration date fast approaching, leading EB-5 stakeholders including The Real Estate Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the EB-5 Investment Coalition…
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Following is the Chinese translation of a previously published blog post:

我们曾经报道，美国移民局（USCIS）最近改变了其允许以借款作为投资人合法投资的政策。许多相关人士都提到，投资人以并非完全拥有的房产做抵押贷款的I-526申请被拒。美国移民局指出，借款可以作为投资人的资金，如果：（1）投资人对借款负有首要的和个人的偿还义务，并且（2）投资人实际拥有的抵押资产达到或超过借款的价值。Continue Reading 重新审视债务概念: Greenberg Traurig EB-5 团队收到几十份I-526对借款类申请案件的批准书

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.

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Greenberg Traurig attorneys, Kate Kalmykov and Sylvia Sobczyk, attended a recent immigration-related exhibition in Qatar.  As part of Greenberg Traurig’s tour of the Middle East, Kalmykov and Sobczyk were available to discuss immigration related questions with the thousands of participants at the exhibition.  Among the various topics discussed, Kalmykov and Sobczyk provided insights on the EB-5 program and how investors can obtain a green card through investment in the United States.

Kate Kalmykov and Sylvia Sobczyk meet with the attendees at the recent exhibition in Qatar to discuss various immigration matters.
Kate Kalmykov and Sylvia Sobczyk meet with the attendees at the recent exhibition in Qatar to discuss various immigration matters.

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自2015年4月22日起，由于受排期的影响，国家签证中心和广州领事馆开始取消已经预约的移民签证面试。这大大区别于以往的做法。在过去如果获得了预约面试就会被分配一个移民签证号，因此便不会受排期的影响。近期获得移民签证预约面试的申请人应该及时联系律师和法律代表，以证实预约的面试是否被取消。

收到了面试取消通知的申请人会受到排期的影响。如果预约面试被取消，那么申请人需要每个月到此网站website查看签证公告来确认他们的优先日是否有效。一旦优先日生效，他们可重新申请EB-5移民签证。请点击此处here查看优先日。此外，国务院网站有一个优先日查询“Priority Date Checker”专栏，只要输入信息就可以自动查询相应的截止日期。详细英文信息点击此住here。 详细中文信息点击此处here。

对于那些没有子女超龄风险的申请人，取消已预约的签证面试并不会对副申请人产生负面影响。任何已经递交DS-260，或者已经支付签证费的副申请人会受到《儿童状态保护法案》的保护。详情请参见签证办公室公布的信息清单information。

此外，我们开始收到EB-5社区发来的通知。通知上说国家签证中心的预约面试通知并未及时寄出，因此导致一些申请人错过了面试。由于国家签证中心在过去九个月中工作并非十分高效，发生这种情况并不奇怪。请到我们的博客了解最新消息。
Continue Reading EB-5签证排期重磅消息：广州领事馆取消已预约的移民签证面试