Immigrant Investors Seeking Green Cards through the EB-5 Visa Program to Pay at Least $900,000
July 24, 2019
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Immigrants seeking a green card via investment will have to pay a lot more under a new Homeland Security Department regulation that has been years in the making. The final regulation overhauling the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program bumped up the minimum investment amounts considerably and Fragomen Partner Chad Blocker shares his view with Bloomberg Law in a recent article. Read more.
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