Colin Behring

Graduate EB-5 Project Site Tour in San Jose, California

  The Behring team lead a live site tour of the Graduate, the Berkeley Regional Center’s newest EB-5 investment project in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California. The tour showed EB-5 investors the current progress of the student housing tower that is located just 469 feet away from San Jose State University’s front gate. Watch the

Graduate EB-5 Seminar Video Replay Available Now

On August 9th, 2018 Behring and Fragomen Worldwide co-hosted an EB-5 seminar at the Marriot hotel in downtown San Jose. The group also took part in a walking tour of the Graduate, Behring’s latest premier EB-5 investment project in Downtown San Jose. Topics Covered in the Seminar:   EB-5 Requirements EB-5 Process EB-5 Investment Items

Will I Lose My Green Card and Be Deported for Voting as a Non-U.S. Citizen?

Non-U.S. citizens are not allowed to vote in the federal elections. Non-U.S. citizens include Green Card holders, those in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas, undocumented immigrants, refugees and asylees. These categories of immigrants do not have the right to vote for the President of the U.S. Natural born U.S. citizens and naturalized citizens can vote ...

5 Tips For Prepping your EB-5 Source of Funds Report

These are tips to help out with your source of funds report preparation. If you are new to Source of funds reports, see our other post about EB-5 Visa Source of Funds Report Basics  This sounds simple but many EB-5 investors don’t think too far ahead when it comes to actually filing the I-526 petition ...

EB-5 Source of Funds Report Basics

A Source of Funds report is required with all EB-5 investor I-526 petitions. We saw a great article in EB-5 Investors Magazine written by David Hirson (Founder of David Hirson & Partners LLP) that explains the concept better than I ever could. Here is the full article for your reference. View the original article here. ...

Accredited Investor Requirement Explanation

EB-5 visa investors need to have SEC's accredited investor status in order to invest in EB-5 Projects. See the most frequently asked questions about accredited investor status by EB-5 visa investors below:   What does it mean to be an accredited investor? An accredited investor, in the context of a natural person, includes anyone who: ...

Can H1-B Visa Holders Change to EB-5 Visa?

Yes. H1-B Visa holders can change to EB-5. Frequently asked questions about H1-B Holders who want to change to EB-5: I have an H1-B Visa, Can I apply for EB-5 visa and not lose my H1-B? YES! You may apply for EB-5 while holding an H1-B visa. H1-B allows for what USCIS refers to as ...

I need to know, will my EB-5 project get denied by USCIS?

The Berkeley Regional Center has received the same email question about EB-5 projects many times before: What is the chance that my EB-5 project will get denied? Unfortunately, as with many things in EB-5 investment, the real answer is that “it depends”. The official answer from…

USCIS EB-5 Notice of Proposed Rule Making – Potential Changes to the EB-5 Program

USCIS creates Notice of Proposed Rule Making. The NPRM, available here, addresses several important policy issues including Targeted Employment Area (TEA) designation, minimum investment amounts, priority date retention, removal of conditions clarifications, and other miscellaneous changes. In addition to the proposed new regulations, the NPRM includes significant detail on the DHS policy making process, ranging

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