Lake Point EB-5 Sees 1st Six Month I-526 Approval!

Congratulations to our newest Lake Point Capital Partners EB-5 investor from Vietnam, whose I-526 was approved by USCIS in a blazing six months (no RFE, of course.)  USCIS EB-5 team: you rock and we are very grateful for your efforts, aware as we are of the extraordinary workload pressures you conti...

Jose E. Latour Feb 13, 2014

Canada Kills Immigrant Investor Program, Refunding Pending Cases

It looks like the U.S. EB-5 Program is getting an unintentional boost from our neighbors to the North: Canada has just announced that it is ending its Investor Visa program, which has been extremely popular in China and proved an insurmountable adversary to the more encumbered, complex EB-5 investor...

Jose E. Latour Feb 12, 2014

Another Lake Point Investor EB-5 Investor from Vietnam Approved

Although Lake Point's stream of steady I-526 approvals is established and is no longer a "news flash", seeing the dream of U.S. residency realized for each of our investors never gets old.  It is particularly gratifying when one of our Vietnamese investor petitions gets approved without any USCIS qu...

Jose E. Latour Jan 24, 2014

WSJ Finally Writes About EB-5…

...and says pretty much nothing new!  Check it out: WSJ Article on EB-5 from Jan. 21, 2014…

Jose E. Latour Jan 21, 2014

Video Clip of HLG’s 2013 Hong Kong Immigration Conference

See if you can find grizzled old me waxing poetic about Lake Point EB-5...(-; Harvey Law Group's 2013 HK Investor Immigration Conference…

Jose E. Latour Dec 18, 2013

USCIS Approves American Bridge Seattle Regional Center!

[PREFACE: As most of my readers know, I'm very wary of structuring new EB-5 Regional Centers and Projects.   While many of my colleagues are doing very brisk business with EB-5 formations, I have a real issue taking on an EB-5 structure unless I'm 100% satisfied with both the quality of the folks be...

Jose E. Latour Dec 06, 2013

New Contact Email for Lake Point EB-5

Well, it was only a question of time before some green-skinned, malevolent computer geek basking in anonymity would think to hack us...but they did.   I now have the dubious distinction of owning a domain which has flooded at least one nursing home with over 500 porn and spam emails within a few bri...

Jose E. Latour Dec 04, 2013

2013 Lake Point EB-5 Redux, Better Late than Never!

Folks, I know I've been as quiet as a church mouse -- online anyway -- but this fall has been one big Rock 'Em/ Sock 'Em season of high fives all around: Lake Point EB-5 approvals have continued to steamroll in since our #1 approval came in September, with a total of 7 Lake Point EB-5 I-526s approve...

Jose E. Latour Dec 03, 2013

SUCCESS IN CHINA!! Lake Point EB-5’s First Chinese I-526 Approved!

American Venture Solutions Regional Center and Lake Point EB-5 extend our hearty congratulations to our THIRD approved EB-5 investor, who has patiently waited for over one year for their approval.  Like I-526 approvals numbers 1 and 2, this third approval was issued without a Request for Evidence.  ...

Jose E. Latour Sep 25, 2013

Lake Point EB-5 gets SECOND I-526 Approval Without RFE!

I told you Friday about our first Lake Point EB-5 investor getting their I-526 approved without an RFE; turns out Lake Point EB-5 investors #1 AND #2 were BOTH approved on Friday, with neither generating an RFE from USCIS.  Thanks and hats off to Laguna Niguel! (-: For more information on the only F...

Jose E. Latour Sep 09, 2013