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Please join GT Immigration & Compliance Practice Shareholders Kate Kalmykov and Jennifer Hermansky for a webinar titled “The Right Time is Now: Succeeding with EB-5 in 2022.” The webinar, held on Wednesday, May 11 from 2 – 3 p.m. EDT, will feature a panel of industry experts discussing important EB-5 topics such as what…

On Thursday, Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. EST, please join Kate Kalmykov and Jennifer Hermansky, shareholders in GT’s Immigration & Compliance Practice, as they present a webinar titled “New Issues in I-829 Adjudications: A Reexamination of Source of Funds Issues Post I-526 Approval.”

This webinar will cover the following topics:

  • Re-examination

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Presently there is a large interest by EB-5 investors  in filing an I-526 Petition following the Behring federal court decision, which invalidated the 2019 EB-5 regulations. With the minimum investment amount decreased from $900,000 to $500,000 for targeted employment area investments, a window has opened for investors to potentially file an I-526 Petition at the…

USCIS has released its third quarter performance data for the fiscal year 2016 (October through September), including performance data on I-526 Petitions and I-829 Petitions.  USCIS reports generally provide summary data on the number of applications or petitions received, approved, denied and pending.

For the third quarter of 2016 (April through June), USCIS approved 1,660…

Earlier this month, USCIS released updated processing times for EB-5 related petitions.  The following chart provides the average processing times for cases being adjudicated by the Immigrant Investor Program Office (IPO) as of October 31, 2014: 

Form Processing Timeframe as of December 11, 2014
I-526 14.7 months
I-829 8.6 months
I-924 9 months

Based…