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2012/5/01 -- USCIS EB-5 Meeting summary at CSC -- our take Over 200 stakeholders, who were in Southern CA to attend the IIUSA EB-5 Conference, showed up physically, with 300 more participating telephonically, all expecting some positive changes, but instead left feeling deflated. Many in attendance left saying there really is no need to show up physically at these USCIS sponsored meetings. * Let me say at the outset I actually felt a great deal of sympathy for Ms. Sasha Alexander who had to act as the face of USCIS for the EB-5 meeting, because she was honestly sympathetic to business persons who were looking for specific guidelines from USCIS, and she had to sit through 2 hours saying pretty much the same thing, which was in essence: "We are doing the best we can and we are sorry we can not give you clearer guide posts on which you can rely for predictability when you carry on your business."Basically, the same old story that CSC is doing its best with a limited staff and they have now hired and trained more staff, including economists and business attorneys. Many stakeholders, especially wanna-be RC operators, complained of the slow adjudications. Only useful info was: 1. There will be another "draft" version of Mayorkas' "overarching policy memo issued within several weeks, and no, USCIS will not give any due deference to this "draft" policy memo until it has been finalized. 2. "Exemplar" project approval or premium-processing adjudication will be re-examined, and we would not be surprised if USCIS ditches these proposals. 3. EB-5 statistics at: http://eb-5center.com/files/EB-5Stats_May_2012_0.pdfThe way it's been going, do not be surprised if it takes another 2 years for Director Mayorkas' ongoing "overarching" draft policy memo to finally become effective, and until then, many will be suffering. As we all know, USCIS doesn't operate like a private enterprise which will do whatever it takes to get the job done. Also, it's unfortunate that not all of EB-5 filing fees go towards improving the EB-5 adjudication team at CSC. No presentation material and no answers to many pertinent and specific questions submitted in advance; and really, no responses to any important issues. And you know what? That's what I expected, meaning this may will be the last USCIS EB-5 meeting I will be attending physically. I hate to say it, but it's less waste of time to participate via telephone. By the way, one wanna-be RC operator gentleman who offered to write a big check to USCIS to help USCIS get its job done is my hero. Of course, what he did not realize was that big fat checks accompanying EB-5 cases really do not all end up going towards helping improve the EB-5 unit at CSC. Until USCIS is allowed to devote substantial portion of EB-5 filing fees exclusively towards improving EB-5 Unit operation within CSC, USCIS may not have the financial capability to adjudicate EB-5 cases quickly.

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回复: 转贴Young Noh关于最新移民局会议的体会Lucidtext 博客更悲观。 5/1 Stakeholder Non-Engagement May 1, 2012 2 Comments Here’s what came out of today’s hotly-anticipated in-person EB-5 stakeholder meeting at the California Service Center:USCIS did not allow questions about and did not comment on the “tenant occupancy” issues.USCIS did not provide a PowerPoint presentation, and did not address the stakeholder questions solicited and provided in advance of the meeting. (This may have been an error of organization, as it was announced at the beginning of the call that the panelists had prepared to answer the questions submitted in advance.)Although quite a few senior staff were present at the meeting, they said little. Sasha Haskell of Service Center Operations did nearly all the talking.USCIS acknowledged comments on but expressed no specific plan or goals to improve processing times.USCIS acknowledged comments on but expressed no specific plan or goals to improve communication through the public engagement mailbox or through the I-924 applicant email lines.USCIS acknowledged comments on but expressed no specific plan or goals to communicate expectations and standards in a more open manner.USCIS provided the usual EB-5 statistics, and promised that stats will be published consistently in the future.USCIS suggested that a new draft of the EB-5 policy memo will be emerging “in a few weeks,” and that the service is not currently deferring to the draft memo or implementing the “material change” guidance included.USCIS confirmed that, as indicated in yesterday’s general email from the Office of Public Engagement, applicants who were issued a “tenant occupancy” RFE will be contacted with a notice that their deadline for response will be extended. However, there were no promises of forthcoming guidance related to the RFE.I have uploaded my recording of the call to Dropbox, but I don’t recommend it, except for the eloquent appeals expressed by members of the EB-5 community. I approached this meeting full of sympathy for the USCIS panelists and their difficult task of engaging upset stakeholders on the complex and valid concerns that have recently arisen. But as it turned out, I had no occasion for sympathy. Engagement hardly occurred. After the moderator had ended the meeting, the mic caught a private comment that I interpret to be Sasha Haskell saying aside: “I think we’re doing fine, I don’t care what they say.” I’m almost certainly mishearing, but if Ms. Haskell did say that, it is consistent with the dense, unaccommodating attitude that was apparent throughout the meeting, and that bodes ill for future improvement.I am sad. The EB-5 Regional Center program has so much promise, and yet this meeting highlighted management problems and points of confusion while giving no indication that they are being seriously addressed or will go away any time soon. I spent the weekend at the IIUSA conference talking to people with proposals for projects involving real job creation and significant economic development, and today’s “engagement” doesn’t leave us any closer to knowing whether it’s safe for business people to use EB-5 to support those plans.

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