By RON NIXON United States Citizenship and Immigration Services sent green cards to people that contained incorrect information or were duplicates, or mailed them to the wrong addresses, according to a report released on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General. The immigration agency, which is […]
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By RON NIXON WASHINGTON — A contentious visa program that allows wealthy foreigners to obtain United States citizenship by investing in economic development projects will expire at the end of this month unless Congress acts to extend it. The program, called EB-5, allows foreign investors to gain citizenship by investing […]
By Eliot Brown A controversial federal immigration program offering green cards to some foreign investors had record demand in 2015, as concern that a key provision of the law might expire fueled a surge of aspiring immigrants. The program, known as EB-5, received applications from 17,691 investors in 2015, up […]
Program That Lets Foreigners Write a Check, and Get a Visa, Draws Scrutiny
18 Mar
by Foster, on News
WASHINGTON — The easiest way to gain entry into the United States is not to walk across the border in the dead of night. It is to write a check. A visa process enacted by Congress in 1990 to create jobs and pump billions of dollars into the economy has […]