WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today published a revised Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status (Form I-485). The new Form I-485 and instructions have been substantially updated to reduce complexity after collecting comment...

The USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data page has been updated with data from FY2017 Q2 (January to March) for petitions including I-526 and I-829.

A few points to note:

• The fall in I-526 receipts was to be expected, since the previous quarters represented unn...

We’re waiting on the fate of draft EB-5 regulations published in the Federal Register in January 2017, with a public comment period that ended in April 2017. This post briefly reviews the proposed rules, considers the probability that they will be finalized any time so...

The future remains uncertain for the so-called 'Golden Visa' program

It only took one winter night for a Chinese mother to make the decision to leave her country. In the following two months' time, she rushed to prepare $500,000 in cash, trying to submit all her applica...

The regional center program is now authorized, as part of fiscal year 2017 Appropriations legislation, through September 30, 2017. Updates as they happened:

• 5/8/2017: In the wake of RC program reauthorization and the flap over an EB-5 project being promoted by the K...

The USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data page has been updated with numbers for I-526 and I-829 petitions received and processed in October to December 2016. The numbers show another dramatic improvement in I-526 processing, continuing free-fall in I-829 processing,...

The disparity in the cost of living for families (defined as having two children in child care) is greater for residents of New York City and its suburbs than in any other major city in the U.S., according to a new study conducted by Zillow and Care.com. According to t...

So you’re ready to emerge from the college bubble and join the thousands of grads who relocate to New York City every spring. Contrary to what Taylor Swift would have you believe, New York hasn’t necessarily been waiting for you: Exciting as the city is, it isn’t exact...

MANHATTAN — As the year wraps up, one thing hasn't changed in the city's real estate market: affordability still eludes many New Yorkers.

The average sale price for an apartment in Manhattan, including co-ops and condos, surpassed $2 million for the first time ever, acc...

Manhattan home sales broke records in the second quarter of 2016, but if you thought that buyers in Brooklyn and Queens might catch a break, we’ve got some bad news. According to the latest batch of market reports, prices in those boroughs just keep trending upwards....