Sentences with phrase «immigrant visa program»

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Foreign investors who put at least $ 500,000 into a new business can get a U.S. visa under the 20 - year - old Immigrant Investor Program.

ENJOINED AND RESTRAINED from, in any manner or by any means, removing individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States.

The Start - up Visa came two years after the federal government shuttered the Immigrant Investor and Entrepreneur programs over concerns that rich foreigners were simply buying their way into the country.

FWD.us also fired back against proposals to limit programs like the H - 1B visa that allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers, calling any plan to «radically restrict pathways» for skilled immigrants to come to the U.S. «just wrong.»

That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

Fiona McEntee, an Irish immigrant and the founder of Chicago - based law firm McEntee Law Group, celebrated the 2016 passage of a U.S. startup visa program.

These companies hope to see an expanded H - 1B visa program, the creation of visas for immigrants who show proof of VC backing, and a clearer path to citizenship for high - skilled workers who are here illegally.

Since 1990, foreign investors from China, Canada and the Middle East have invested more than $ 6.8 billion in American businesses, been awarded 29,000 U.S. Visas, and created thousands of American jobs through the EB - 5 Immigrant Investor Program.

Polis hopes to increase the number of EB - 5 Regional Center Program visas — for foreign investors or entrepreneurs that create at least five jobs for U.S. citizens or legal immigrants — to 10,000 from 3,000; and create a new class of eligibility called Startup Vvisas — for foreign investors or entrepreneurs that create at least five jobs for U.S. citizens or legal immigrants — to 10,000 from 3,000; and create a new class of eligibility called Startup VisasVisas.

Modeled after other countries» successful investor visa programs, Congress established the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program on Oct. 6, 1992 through Sec. 610 Public Law 102 - 395.

We must undertake a rigorous review of our visa and refugee vetting programs to increase our confidence in the entry decisions we make for visitors and immigrants to the United States.

Trump told reporters that he wants immigrants to the United States to «come in from everywhere,» even as his administration doubled down on its calls for scrapping the diversity - based visa lottery program as part of ongoing budget negotiations.

Proof: the official program title is NOT «Green Card Lottery», it's «Diversity Immigrant Visa».

ENJOINED AND RESTRAINED from, in any manner or by any means, removing individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States.

The EB - 5 visa was established in 1990 as a job - creation program, offering foreign investors a green card for an immigrant in return for a capital investment of $ 500,000 in a commercial enterprise in a rural or high - unemployment area.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he wants immigrants to the United States to «come in from everywhere,» even as his administration doubled down on its calls for scrapping the diversity - based visa lottery program as part of ongoing budget negotiations.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration would still keep pressing for a deal to save DACA via budget negotiations, but she repeated Trump's position that any deal reached should include funding for the border wall and get rid of the decades - old lottery program that reserves visas for people from countries that have relatively few immigrants in the United States.

For example, he created a visa program that allowed undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States.

The act would open access to financial aid through the taxpayer - funded Tuition Assistance Program, or TAP, for immigrants known as «Dreamers» — those brought to the United States or who stayed on expired visas when they were minors.

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It would have held constant the total number of legal immigrants by eliminating another visa program that grants permanent residency to 50,000 applicants a year on the basis of a lottery.

Consequently, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) proposed an alternate version of the bill (Attracting the Best and Brightest Act; H.R. 6412), in which the diversity visa lottery program is retained, thereby increasing the total number of legal immigrants to the United States each year.

To see where the public stands, we asked questions about visa programs for highly specialized workers, federal aid to school districts impacted by immigration, and the desirability of instructing immigrants and students with limited English proficiency in their native language.

Greg routinely advises clients regarding immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, family - based and employment - based visa petitions, the PERM labor certification process, the immigrant investor program, I - 9 compliance, and immigration issues that arise in the hiring process.

Gavica Perez regularly provides legal counsel to entrepreneurs and high - net - worth individuals regarding investment - based immigration, including the EB - 5 Immigrant Investor Program, and she advises clients on the full range of immigrant visas, labor certifications, and U.S. citizenshipImmigrant Investor Program, and she advises clients on the full range of immigrant visas, labor certifications, and U.S. citizenshipimmigrant visas, labor certifications, and U.S. citizenship matters.

Henry J. Chang's Canada - US Immigration Blog Citizenship and Immigration Canada Announces Start - up Visa Program On January 24, 2013, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Citizen Jason Kenney (the «Immigration Minister») announced that Citizenship and Immigration Canada («CIC») would launch a Start - Up Visa Program to recruit innovative immigrant entrepreneurs who will create new jobs and spur economic growth.

This year, the State Department estimates that its new program will affect 710,000 immigrant visa applicants and 14 million non-immigrant visa applicants.

The EB - 5 Visa Program for Immigrant Investors was established in 1990 and offers foreign nationals the opportunity to receive a permanent visa for themselves and their family members under ageVisa Program for Immigrant Investors was established in 1990 and offers foreign nationals the opportunity to receive a permanent visa for themselves and their family members under agevisa for themselves and their family members under age 21.

Another issue impacting foreign investors is the per - country quota limits on how many investors are allowed into the EB - 5 program and subsequently how many obtain U.S. immigrant visas.

The EB - 5 Visa Program for Immigrant Investors was established in 1990 as a way to stimulate the economy by bringing in foreign capital and creating domestic jobs.