New RCs (AZ, CA, CT, GA, MN, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, PR, TX, WA, WI)

WordPress tells me that not many people clicked on my link from last post to USCIS’s published Q&A from the 2/26/2014 EB-5 Stakeholder Meeting. So here’s another chance. This is really a good Q&A, with substantive responses on hot button issues including Regional Center sales, redemption agreements, deference, asset purchase, Census Tract aggregation, evidence at I-829 of model direct jobs, for-profit activities, guest expenditure jobs, bridge financing, hypothetical plan content, and geographic range of a Regional Center. I learned more from this written Q&A than I learned from listening to the meeting itself. I’m also bookmarking the page for the 9/10/2014 EB-5 Stakeholder Meeting, which will eventually also be updated with USCIS’s meeting notes.  In the meantime, Robert Divine and Melanie Walker have the best summary so far of key issues from the 9/10 meeting.

And USCIS has updated its Regional Center list.

Additions to the USCIS Regional Center List, 9/5/2014 to 9/16/2014

• DRC Capital Partners, LLC (Arizona)
• E & W Lake Tahoe Regional Center LLC (California)
• New York Connecticut Regional Center, LLC (Connecticut, New York)
• Encore Georgia Regional Center, LLC (Georgia): encoreeb5.com
• Headwaters Regional Center, LLC (Minnesota, Wisconsin)
• Pacific Casino & Entertainment Group Regional Center (Nevada)
• AscendAmerica, LLC (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania): www.ascendamerica.com
• MidAmerican Global Ventures, LLC (Ohio): www.midamericanglobal.com (The list currently shows Mag Ventures 1, LLC, Mag Ventures 2, LLC, Mag Ventures 3, LLC, but I assume this is a mistake that will be corrected.)
• Caribbean Regional Center (Puerto Rico) http://caribbeanregionalcenter.com/
• Abasto Regional Center (Texas): www.mcallenwarehouse.com
• South Texas EB-5 Regional Center (Texas): www.stxeb5.com
• USLiving Regional Center (Texas)
• Pacific Viniculture (Washington)