Darren Silver & Associates, LLP
We are aware of a recent announcement by President Trump of a plan to create a “Gold Card” at a cost of $5 million. At the moment we are unaware of any specific details of the proposed Gold Card program, but are providing our preliminary thoughts based on the limited information currently available. The EB-5 program has been a cornerstone of U.S immigration since the 1990s. The EB-5 program has…
Darren Silver selected as Top EB-5 Attorney in 2024 by EB5 Investors Magazine. The year’s most anticipated issue of EB5 Investors Magazine is now out celebrating the Top 25 award winners. We are proud to be recognized as one of the industry’s leading and most influential Lawyers in EB-5. Silver has a career spanning over 25 years exclusively in the field of immigration. Before founding his firm in 1995, Silver was employed with…
The EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA) created Changes in EB-5 Visa Adjudication. With the introduction of the Reserved visa set-aside categories. Where an applicant files an EB-5 investment-based petition in one of these new Reserved set aside locations, USCIS has moved forward with prioritizing these applications for adjudication. While there is no consistency with the adjudications, our law firm has seen some Rural based set aside investment…
The fee increase will go into effect beginning April 1, 2024. Filing fees for EB-5 immigrant petitions will also see significant increases under the new rule. The Form I-526e (Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur/Standalone and Regional Center Investor) will be raised to $11,160, from $3,675. The Form I-829 (Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status) fee will be raised to $9,525 from $3,835.
Under the new RIA Act, USCIS had promised to expedite the adjudication of EB-5 petitions filed within the new Set-Aside locations. -We are finally seeing this come to light. -Several of our clients have received their I-526e petitions approved in about 1 year! It appears that the USCIS is focusing on Both the High Unemployment locations and Rural locations. See more EB-5 Visa updates : EB-5 updates …
The new RIA rules that came into effect 2022, removed the requirement for EB-5 investor to maintain their investment throughout their conditional residence. USCIS specified the starting date for the two-year period under section 203/b)(5)(A)(i) of the INA for EB-5 investors seeking to remove conditions on their permanent resident status based on an EB-5 immigrant visa petition filed after the new regulation came into effect. The New rules modified section…
October 2023, EB-5 Investors Magazine announces the winners of the top 25 immigration attorneys who specialize in the field of EB-5. -It is a great honor that Darren Silver has been selected for another consecutive year as one of the top EB5 lawyers in the country. https://www.eb5investors.com/magazine/article/eb5-top25-winners-immigration-attorneys-2023
USCIS has updated their approach to adjudicating the I-526 / EB-5 immigrant visa petitions. By Darren Silver Partner. Darren Silver & Associates, LLP dsilver@darrensilver.com In a July 18, 2023 announcement USCIS explained that they have decided to adjudicate the I-526 applications under a new system. According to the announcement: “The purpose of updating the visa availability approach is to enable USCIS to increase productivity and more efficiently process Form I-526…
Filing an EB-5 Green Card with a Partial or an Installment Investment amount. By Immigration Attorney Darren Silver The EB-5 program is an investment-based program which requires an investor to invest a minimum of $800,000 into a qualifying Regional Center project or a Business Enterprise. The investor is required to file a form known as an I-526e and with that form will also need to provide specific evidence and information…
The EB-1A and EB-2 NIW green card categories share similarities such as allowing self-petitioning and Premium Processing. -Where a visa number is available an applicant may be able to obtain a green card in a matter of months! The Requirements may be similar as the (EB-1A) requires proof of extraordinary ability while the EB-2 NIW requires an advanced degree or exceptional ability. Both EB-1A and EB-2 NIW have requirements to show that…