By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
The number of foreigners willing to invest $500,000 to $1 million in a U.S. business in exchange for a visa roughly tripled in the past fiscal year, as dozens of cash-strapped enterprises and local governments scrambled to attract wealthy foreign backers through a previously obscure provision of immigration law.
Under the EB-5 visa program, immigrants who can demonstrate that their investment created or preserved at least 10 U.S. jobs after two years are granted legal permanent residency along with their spouses and children.
According to a cover story of the latest issue of The Nation magazine, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is holding an untold number of people in secretively maintained detention facilities all over the United States. The report alleges that ICE agents regularly impersonate civilians and rely on other illegal tricks to arrest longtime US residents who have no criminal history. Below is an interview with with the author of the two-part investigation, Jacqueline Stevens:
JUAN GONZALEZ: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, is holding an untold number of people in secret detention facilities all over the United States. That’s according to an explosive report that’s the cover story of the latest issue of The Nationmagazine.
Marcus Kosins Jr. at the USCIS Application Support Center in Garapan, CNMI.
On December 2, 2009, David Gulick, District Director of USCIS, announced that henceforth the USCIS would on a case-by-case basis grant two-year parole status to four groups of individuals in the CNMI.
The four groups are (1) CNMI permanent residents, (2) immediate relatives of CNMI permanent residents, (3) spouses and children of deceased CNMI permanent residents, and (4) immediate relatives of citizens of Freely Associated States (the later being citizens of Palau, Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, including Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae and Pohnpei).
米国留学 [Study in the USA] とは？
米国の教育機関への門戸は、その資質をもつ世界中のすべての学生に開かれている。米国は全世界の学生や学者を惹きつける教育システムを整備していることを誇りにしている。米国留学 [Study in the USA] は、東京の米国大使館レファレンス資料室が管理・運営しているインターネット上の情報資源である。そこでは米国の大学学部や大学院、また特別な専門分野の研究に関心を抱く海外の留学生のために広範にわたる情報を提供している。米国政府その他の機関が製作する種々のプログラムやさらに詳細な情報へのリンクに関する情報も得ることができる。
What is Study in the USA?
The doors of U.S. educational institutions are open to all qualified students from around the world. The United States is proud of an educational system that attracts students and scholars from across the globe. STUDY IN THE USA is a web resource maintained by the U.S. Embassy Tokyo’s Information Resource Center. It provides extensive information for international students interested in pursuing undergraduate, graduate, or specialized study in the United States. You will find explanations of the different programs and links to additional information produced by the U.S. government and others.
