JFH Quoted in WSJ on Increasing Chinese Emigration

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203604577393841014313050.html…

Jose E. Latour May 14, 2012

Bo, Chen Headlines = More Restless Chinese Look to EB-5

With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in China today giving them another version of the human rights lecture the Chinese government is sooooo over, the ever-growing buzz about a "Plan B" for their children is again amping up within the walls of affluent Chinese homes.  While China is a...

Jose E. Latour May 03, 2012

The Bo Xilai Affair and EB-5 Demand in China

In the six weeks or so since I last returned from Shanghai, another 2-3 would-be EB-5 Regional Center projects have assured me that they “have most if not all Chinese EB-5 investors in place and ready to fund.”  Sometimes delivered with the charming innocence of youthful ignorance, other times...

Jose E. Latour Apr 25, 2012

Heady Days for EB5 Attorneys

There are but a handful of US immigration attorneys who truly grasp the EB-5 visa at a molecular level. It's a short list of perhaps a half dozen veteran practitioners, and I am without a doubt at the very bottom of it (if I'm in it at all!) Having spent 15 years as the industry's EB-5 "Prophet of D...

Jose E. Latour Apr 09, 2012

EB-5 Trading Cards

"Psssst...c'mere: I've got six Taiwanese EB5 investors funded but the original deal went bust. Let's talk...?"My my, how EB-5 has evolved. Two years ago, I couldn't get anyone overseas to talk to me about finding investors. Today, they're beating down the doors of guys like me. And, no, it's not jus...

Jose E. Latour Mar 27, 2012

A Night in Bollywood…with Cubans

I've never been to India. But I hope I can go soon.Due to an amalgam of fortuitous circumstances, fate, and an indisputably vast amount of karma, Sunil Kumar is responsible for a Night in Bollywood, an annual fund raiser taking place in Coral Gables (Miami) Florida, which raises tens of thousands of...

Jose E. Latour Mar 25, 2012

Russians and Their EB-5s

Last night I spent a wonderful evening with my dear friend Mikhael Keifitz, a Miami – based attorney of Russian origin. Mikhael is more than a colleague with whom I administer Russian investor cases; he's an extraordinarily creative thinker and profoundly honest individual… But true credit to our le...

Jose E. Latour Mar 23, 2012

Announcing the $100,000 EB-5 Regional Center

In the past one month I have reviewed the following:-An EB-5 Project structuring quote, already signed off on by the in-house and external construction counsel of one of the nation's leading builders, where an EB-5 Regional Center owner was trying to charge a one time $200,000+ fee for including the...

Jose E. Latour Mar 22, 2012

Post – Shanghai…

Greetings everyone! I am back from China after another successful trip with Sharon and we have finished the securing of the funding for the Lake Point project!Many issues need to be discussed, many updates are lagging, and you will be hearing from me soon. Have a great weekend and I'll be back soon!...

Jose E. Latour Mar 16, 2012

IN MANDARIN: EB5 Piggybacking: an Option Worth Exploring, Monday, January 25, 2010

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_a12168ae010103np.html

Jose E. Latour Mar 09, 2012