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Cynthia Lange
Cynthia
Lange
leads
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen
& Loewy, LLP’s High Tech
practice in the heart of Silicon
Valley. She is the Managing
Partner of the firm’s Northern
California practice. She
has worked with numerous companies to set up
and manage worldwide immigration compliance programs and offers legal advice to individual investors. She has been an Adjunct Professor
at Southwestern University School of Law since
1988, frequently lectures on corporate immigration, and has written numerous articles on business immigration law matters.
Al Kamen, “An Investment in American Citizenship; Immigration Program
Invites Millionaires to Buy Their
Way In,” Washington Post, (Sept. 29, 1991).
2
U.S. Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional
Committees, Immigrant Investors: Small Number of Participants Attributed to
Pending Regulations and Other Factors, p. 2 (Apr. 2005) (GAO-05-256).
3
Matter of Soffici, 22 I. & N. Dec. 158 (Comm.1998);Matter of Izummi,
22 I. & N. Dec. 169 (Comm. 1998); Matter of Hsiung, 22 I. & N. Dec. 201
(Comm. 1998); Matter of Ho, 22 I. & N. Dec. 206 (Comm. 1998).
4
FY 1998: 1368 I-526 receipted, 290 denials, FY 1999: 650 I-526
receipted, 1558 denied. USCIS Performance Analysis System Data, Office
of Performance and Quality (OPQ), Data Analysis and Reporting Branch
(DARB) - AC/DL, Report Date: October 26th, 2012.
5
U.S. V. O’Connor (158 F. Supp. 2d 697 – Dist. Court, ED Virginia, 2001)
6
Id.
7
U.S. Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional
Committees, Immigrant Investors: Small Number of Participants Attributed to
Pending Regulations and Other Factors, p. 2 (Apr. 2005) (GAO-05-256).
8
21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Pub.
L. No. 107-273, 116 Stat. 1758 (2002).
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