July
Thursday the 17th:
Hot Topics in Immigration 2008
Presented by:
The Irish American Business Chamber & Network
The French-American Chamber of Commerce
The German-American Chamber of Commerce
Featuring:
•Updates on H, L, E and O Visas and Attaining Permanent Resident Status
•The EB-5 Investor Visa & The Philadelphia Regional Center Opportunities for Foreign Nationals and Their Families to Obtain Green Cards through a Qualifying Investment
The Pyramid Club
1735 Market Street, 52nd Floor, Philadelphia
8:00 AM: Registration, Networking & Hot Breakfast Buffet
8:30 AM: Welcome, Presentations and Q & A
10:30 AM:Business Card Drawing, Program Concludes
$35 for members; $45 for non-members
REGISTRATION is required by 7/11/08.
Don't delay -- space is limited and event will sell out!
RSVP by emailing the Alanna Barry McCloskey at abarry@iabcn.org, or call the Chamber at
215-574-3101
EB-5 INVESTOR VISA:
Several countries have developed immigrant investor programs, which offer permanent residency visas or green cards to qualified investors. The most prominent countries that have developed such programs are Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The U.S. immigrant investor program provides for the issuance of "conditional" or temporary (two year) green cards to qualifying investors and their families who invest a minimum of US $1 million (or US $500,000 in designated target areas, including the PIDC Regional Center in Philadelphia) in businesses that create at least ten full-time permanent jobs for U.S. workers. Provided that the investment is maintained and achieves the job requirements of the Program, "unconditional" or permanent green cards will be issued after two years.
GUEST SPEAKERS:
H. Ronald Klasko, Managing Partner, Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer LLP
Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP is a firm devoted exclusively to the practice of immigration and nationality law with offices in Philadelphia and New York. Ron Klasko is a former national president and three-term general counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He was selected by his peers as the most respected immigration lawyer in the world in the 2008 edition of The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.
Kelly M. Britt,
CanAm Enterprises, LLC
CanAm Enterprises has more than 20 years of experience in immigration-linked investment funds, and currently, is the exclusive promoter of four different regional centers under the U.S. Immigrant Investor (EB-5 Visa) Pilot Program.
Since August 2004, when their first I-526 petitions were submitted, CanAm has raised almost US $300 million for investment projects in diverse industries, representing almost 600 immigrant investors.
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