Government Releases Crucial EB-5 Data
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services issued three years of EB-5 visa data this week, confirming what was already known to many in the industry: big city regional centers servicing developer clients dominate the field for investors looking to immigrate to the U.S. Between 2014 and 2017, USCIS approved more than 26,000 petitions for visas nationwide and rejected 3,313, its data show. The overwhelming majority of regional centers saw 100 or fewer petitions processed during the period. EB-5 visa issuance is currently capped at 10,000 new investor visas annually.
According to the latest numbers from the United Nations, a record number of people 
Flagstone Property Group has filed $122 million lawsuit against the city of Miami. The suit was filed one day after commissioners unanimously declared the developer in default of a 99-year ground lease that would allow Flagstone to build its luxury hotel and marina complex, and claims the city breached agreements with the developer causing them to lose millions in investments, according to the Miami Herald.
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U.S. Congress created the EB-5 Program in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. In 1992, Congress created the Immigrant Investor Program, also known as the Regional Center Program. This sets aside EB-5 visas for participants who invest in commercial enterprises associated with regional centers approved by USCIS based on proposals for promoting economic growth. We talked about EB-5 Visa with an expert, Marko Issever, Managing Director of Riverside Management Group, a merchant banking boutique.
Markets in Colorado and the Carolinas are drawing the most potential home buyers, according to data released recently by ATTOM Data Solutions. The property data company analyzed mortgage applications to create its 
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Chobani Founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya revealed on Tuesday that one of the first people to congratulate him on his success was Coca-Cola (KO) Chairman Muhtar Kent, and their relationship has sustained since. "He was the first person to call me when I was living in upstate New York making yogurt," Ulukaya said at a conference hosted at the Nasdaq by the Turkish Philanthropy Funds. Chobani was formed in 2005 after Ulukaya, now worth $1.64 billion, bought the company's first manufacturing plant in New Berlin, New York.
The American Turkish Society honored Nevzat Ayd 
With its story of a love triangle between a strong-minded American nurse, a rugged Ottoman soldier and a zealous American doctor, it would be easy to classify 
Sierra Nevada Corporation said Thursday it passed a key milestone in its commercial cargo contract with NASA. The company said it completed a third integration review on its Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract with NASA, confirming that the company 
The U.S ambassador to the United Nations is in Turkey at the ribbon-cutting for a new U.S.-funded school, and Nikki Haley says the American people are thankful the U.S. ally is taking in so many Syrian refugees. The school in the southern Turkish city of Adana is serving children who've fled the Syrian civil war.
Ahmet Bozer , who spent 25 years at the Coca-Cola Co. and retired as the company 
Antalya and Miami, the two uniquely similar cities of Turkey and the US, became sister cities yesterday and have laid down the groundwork for future partnership and collaboration by signing an agreement.
