Court Ruling Opens Door For EB-5 Foreign Investor Immigrants
Recent litigation regarding the U.S. EB-5 Regional Center Investor Immigration Program has met with some success. United States District Judge Vince Chhabria for the Northern District of California ruled that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) actions related to pre-existing EB-5 Regional Centers were arbitrary and capricious. He granted an application by the Behring Regional Center for a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the USCIS from “treating as deauthorized the previously designated regional centers” and requiring that those centers be allowed to function under the rules created by the new EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act which, “includes processing new Form I-526 petitions from immigrants investing through previously authorized regional centers.”