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EB-5 financing for hotel development: use of hotel industry standards for determining job creation from new guest expenditures

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 16 2013

Since 2012, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued multiple Requests for Evidence (RFE) challenging the validity and

Can i use the EB-5 visa program for financing hotel acquisition and renovation?

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2013

QUESTION: Can I use EB-5 financing to buy an existing, operating hotel? ANSWER: Generally, NO. An EB-5 investment must create a minimum of 10 NEW

How to buy a hotel -- what you don't know about undocumented workers could really hurt you!

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2012

Let's say you are buying a hotel

NLRB alleges unfair labor practice for unilaterally implementing E-Verify

  • Epstein Becker Green
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  • USA
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  • September 21 2012

On August 31, 2012, the Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board's ("NLRB") San Francisco, California Region, issued an unfair labor practice complaint, alleging that two Hyatt hotels in San Francisco violated Sections 8(a)(1) and (5) of the National Labor Relations Act by unilaterally implementing E-Verify without negotiating with the union that represents the hotel's employees

EB-5 alert: Congress approves 3 year extension for regional centers

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 14 2012

EB-5 regional centers play an important role in raising EB-5 financing for new hotel development, and there has been some concern among investors and project developers that the federal regulations authorizing EB-5 regional centers were set to expire on September 30, 2012

The benefits of J-1 workers and the costs

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 3 2012

Many hospitality employers use the Exchange Visitor Program which is intended to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by educational and cultural exchanges

J-1 interns and trainees: What happened at Wyndham should stay at Wyndham

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 6 2012

A recent Wall Street Journal article appeared about J-1 interns and trainees who had been placed at Wyndham Bonnet Creek Resort for what appeared to be bona fide internships in hotel and restaurant management

Importance of U.S. immigration laws for unwary restaurant owners

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2012

Federal law requires employers to verify the identity and work authorization of every new hire through the use of the Form I-9

Alternative financing for hotel development: EB-5, New Markets Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits and other public financing incentives

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

Four years after the collapse of the traditional financing markets for new hotel developments, most hotel developers are still struggling to find the necessary financing to fill the capital stack required to build new hotels

White House initiatives to increase visitor travel to U.S.

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 12 2012

On January 19, 2012, President Obama signed an executive order for the dual purposes of streamlining the visitor visa process for certain foreign nationals while boosting the domestic economy and creating jobs through promoting increased international travel and tourism to the U.S