USCIS Policy Archives - Behring Companies

USCIS Flip Flops and Admits that EB-5 Program’s 2021 Expiration Potentially Invalid

Peter Bibler | June 3, 2022

In an extremely odd turn of events in court yesterday for Behring’s second hearing in its lawsuit to stop USCIS from deauthorizing EB-5 Regional Centers, USCIS flip flops on their position regarding last years EB-5 Regional Center program expiration and appeared to agree with Behring that the EB-5 Regional Center Program did not lapse after …

EB-5 Litigation Update Post #8: USCIS reinstates Form I-526 from April 2019 with $500,000 investment amount: Too little too late for some.

Colin Behring | July 10, 2021

Background: Behring Regional Center Vs. Chad Wolf et al. In November 2019, the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program experienced regulation changes that would prove to instantly stall the program from being used to invest, create jobs and immigrate. The new regulations included new regulations and increased investor and operating requirements. Most notably, the minimum investment amount …

EB-5 Legislative Debate – The Case for Permanent Reauthorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program

Colin Behring | July 6, 2021

EB-5 Legislative Debate – The Case for Permanent Reauthorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program The EB-5 Regional Center program has officially lapsed as of July 1, 2021. The EB-5 Regional Center program is no longer accepting new petitions and existing investors in the middle of their processes are on hold in what USCIS refers …

USCIS Grants Expedited Processing and Officially Approves BRC Legacy Fund, EB-5’s Most Powerful Equity Fund Ever Launched.

Kyle Behring | March 3, 2021

Congratulations to the Behring Team and Welcome to a New Age of EB-5 Investment! Behring is proud to announce that USCIS has approved our first Legacy Fund investor’s I-526 petition. What's even more spectacular is that USCIS granted expedited processing for the investor's case, a first for Behring's EB-5 platform. This USCIS approval ratifies BRC ...

New Trump Executive Order Banning H1B, H4, J1, L1 and L2 Visa’s Until 2021

Colin Behring | June 25, 2020

On June 22, 2020, President Trump signed an Executive Order banning H1B and H4 visa holders from entry to the US until December 31, 2020. The ban extends to L1, L2 and J1 visa holders. The EB-5 visa category is exempt and not affected by this change. This order is an extension of Proclamation 10014 …

USCIS EB-5 Policy Manual – Updated November 2019

Colin Behring | November 6, 2019

USCIS is revising its policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to align with the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization Final Rule, published on July 24, 2019, and effective Nov. 21, 2019. USCIS is updating the USCIS Policy Manual to conform with the final rule’s provisions, which include: Priority date retention for certain EB-5 immigrants; …

EB-5 Update – TEA Changes with Release of New Unemployment Statistics

Colin Behring | May 2, 2019

TEA Unemployment Data Explained On May 1, 2019, national unemployment data statistics were released and the State of California Office of the Governor has updated its website to reflect the new TEA Map. In California based EB-5 projects, to qualify the site as a target employment area the unemployment rate in that single census tract ...

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

Colin Behring | October 3, 2017

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 …