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China Daily – EB does it!

EB does it! Martin Lawler cited in China Daily April 19, 2013 article by Chen Jia. Click here to view full article. Lawyer has spent 30 years helping Chinese set up business in America Green tea in a white China set sits on the table by a stack of files in the San Francisco office of Martin Lawler, [...]

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Skills Deficit

The folowing appeared in the June 25, 2007 edition of The Wall Street Journal: BY HOPE M. FRYE AND MARTIN J. LAWLER So Congress doesn’t want to make the mistake of passing immigration reform that actually encourages people to enter the country illegally. But does that mean we have to live without the engineers, scientists [...]

Regional Center Amendments – October 2011

If a regional center wants to add a project which has a new industry code, not previously approved for the regional center by the USCIS, an amendment must be filed. Significant (“material”) changes to the operation of the regional center also require an amendment. Unfortunately, the USCIS has not been very forthcoming in explaining what [...]

EB-5 IIUSA Conference – 2011

I attended the IIUSA (Regional Center Trade Association) Conference in Seattle a few weeks ago. There were more than 200 in attendance. There was a little interesting news, including: The AILA EB-5 committee met with Alejandro Mayorkas. Premium processing (expediting case for a government fee) will be implemented in stages; the first being email questions [...]

USCIS’ EB-5 Expedite Service – September 2011

Recently, the head of the USCIS said on an EB-5 stakeholder’s call that he is committed to rolling out the new expedite service called “Premium Processing.” He refused to give a timeframe, but he did say that the government did not have to submit the program for formal rule making (under the Administrative Procedures Act [...]