Two Connecticut real estate investors have quietly sought and won approval for the state’s first EB-5 visa center, which works with federal authorities to offer green cards in exchange for foreign investment. Zhifeng “Jack” Yang, a licensed real estate broker and managing partner of Richfield Real Estate Investment in Westport said he won approval for… Read More »
The United States has always been regarded as a nation of immigrants. Recently-published figures from the United Nations support this view. More than 45 million immigrants live in the U.S., according to UN figures, more than four times as many living in any other nation in the world. Based on figures recently released by the… Read More »
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told US president Barack Obama that certain aspects of the proposed changes in the American immigration laws will hit Indian IT professionals, eliciting a promise from the US that concerns will be looked into.Singh raised the issue during his three-hour discussion with Obama in Washington on Friday and said that… Read More »
While many students will learn a foreign language or study abroad for a semester, few will spend their undergraduate or graduate years immersed in a university somewhere else on the globe. International graduate students make up approximately 4,000 of the more than 50,000 students at Texas A&M, said Bill Taylor, director of international student services.… Read More »
EB-5 investors are eligible for an EB-5 immigrant visa if they have invested the required amount of capital into one of the three following for-profit business types: A new commercial enterprise (NCE); An enterprise which will expand to 140% of pre-investment net worth or number of employees, or; A troubled business in which jobs will… Read More »