Foreign-born entrepreneurs are critical to the advancement of the U.S. emerging technology industry.  There are a number of visa options, both immigrant and non-immigrant visas, available to entrepreneurs and investors in the emerging tech space. This post will offer an overview of the O-1 visa, a non-immigrant visa. There are two types of O-1 visas with… Read More »

The province of British Columbia (B.C.) has placed a temporary halt on accepting new applications to the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BCPNP) Skills Immigration stream and Express Entry stream. The BCPNP had a total of 5,500 nominations for 2015, to be used to nominate potential immigrants who the province believes will benefit the provincial… Read More »

Effective August 27, 2015, the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program(AINP) will not be accepting new applications until January 27, 2016. The AINP is Alberta’s Provincial Nominee Program for Canadian immigration. “We are pausing application intake for AINP because it is oversubscribed, with approximately 10,000 applications awaiting assessment and hundreds more being submitted each month,” said AINP… Read More »

One of the world’s most popular immigrant investor programs, the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program, reopened for applications this week. This popular Canadian immigration option allows qualified immigrant investors and their dependent family members the opportunity to obtain Canadian permanent residence by investing CAD$800,000 risk-free through an approved financial intermediary. The intake period for applications runs… Read More »

Overview I have written a few articles regarding the over-promotion of the EB-5 visa program from the standpoint that frequently the foreign investor’s desire for a Green Card is over-zealous before considering all of the tax consequences of permanent residency and U.S. citizenship. The EB-5 Visa program has been widely promoted as a legal basis… Read More »

Kenya recently decided to change its visa scheme. The country has now gone virtual in terms of issuing visas to applicants who wish to enter the Kenyan territory. This was declared on the 1st of September this year. Applicants cannot take their visa after entering Kenya any more. The application for a visa must be… Read More »