Volume 3 - Issue 3
On the cover
This issue focuses on the recent legislative developments leading up
to and following the December 11th extension deadline for the
EB-5 Regional Center Program. Congressman Jared Polis and
Mark Amodei discuss the one-year extension, beginning on page
21. We also invited industry veterans to weigh in on another
important, timely issue: what is the scrutiny process that EB-5
investors go through? Read the break-down of the process
beginning on page 58.
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Publisher’s Note
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EB-5 Brazil
by Dennis Rodrigues
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Avoiding the Inadvertent
Investment Company
by Angelo Paparelli, Mark Katzoff,
Christopher Robertson and Gregory White
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Page 21
Pre-Immigration Tax Planning
by Jacob Stein
62 Why EB-5 Investors Cannot Simply
Buy a Green Card
COVER STORY
21 To the EB-5 Community
by David Hirson and Winnie Ng
by Congressman Jared Polis and Mark Amodei
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Understanding Loan Documents
in EB-5 Project Financing
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by Steve Park
by Abbas Hashmi
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Upcoming Events
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Prevailing Against the Notice of
Intent to Terminate
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by Christian Triantaphyllis
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Amendments and Effective Changes to the 76
EB-5 Regional Center Program Delayed for
Consideration until September 30, 2016
EB5’s Status Quo Extension:
A Regional Center Perspective
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Conference Recap: the 4th Annual
California EB-5 Conference, Los Angeles, 91
August 2015
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Conference Recap: the 2015 Shenzhen
Private Delegation, Shenzhen, China,
October 2015
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EB-5 Investor Scrutiny
58 Let’s Get the Truth Straight: Correcting
Common Misconceptions about EB-5
by Reid Thomas and Kaitlin Halloran
Investor Profile: David Brown
Migration Agent Interviews
Larry Wang: Well Trend CEO
Thomas Kut: Immigration Consultant
by EB5 Investor s Magazine Staff
by Angel Brunner
FEATURE ARTICLE
“You’re Chasing Rainbows in Vietnam”
The Stunning Growth of EB-5 in Vietnam
by Brandon Meyer
by Enrique Gonzalez
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Basic Do’s and Dont’s for Marketing to
Middle Eastern & South Asian EB-5
Investors
Opinion: A Secondary Liquidity Market
Could Benefit EB-5
by Jon Baker
Opinion: An Open Letter to USCIS From
A Practicing EB-5 Economist On USCIS
Guidance to Economic Inputs for Job
Creation Studies
by Scott Barnhart
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Misappropriations Fraud Detection
& Deterrence
by Robert Kraft
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Why the Definition of “Capital” For the
Purposes of the EB-5 Program Should
Be Broad
by Dillon Colucci
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