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February 7, 2012
USCIS criticized in Inspector General's report for "getting to yes" and being "owned" by immigration attorneys; it didn't cite EB-5, but maybe it could have
Atlantic Yards Report
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency in charge of the EB-5 immigrant investor program, has recently come under fire by its own parent agency for going too far to help potential immigrants.
While the criticism, raised by the Inspector General of the parent Department of Homeland Security (DHS), does not address cases within the immigrant investor program, it suggests that USCIS has a "get to yes" culture and is also too much in the sway of private immigration attorneys--both of which, by my observation, apply to the EB-5 program.
The issue was first raised in a 1/5/12 article in The Daily, which got a copy of the DHS report.
Posted by eric at February 7, 2012 8:09 AM