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| Mr. Joop Bollen |
Miss Caco is a leading EB-5 Regional Center lawyer and Consular Processing expert. She speaks around the world about US immigration, EB-5 Regional Center investments and EB-5 Green Cards, Business immigration and Consular Processing. She is the only immigration attorney in the world to visit and film the various Regional Centers in the United States and as a result is extremely knowledgeable about the inner workings of Regional Centers and their projects. Miss Caco assists investors from all over the world with their EB-5 Green Card applications and also helps form Regional Centers and obtain USCIS designation approvals for them. She works with corporations and individuals to plan their immigration strategies and travels around the world to assist with both immigrant and non-immigrant visa processing at the US Consulates and Embassies. Miss Caco is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and is a member in good standing of the Florida Bar and the District of Columbia (DC). She has served on the AILA EB-5 committee and the executive committee for the IIUSA. She has been interviewed many times by local and state newspapers on immigration issues as well as NBC and ABC. Topic: EB-5 Visa Petitions and Worldwide Consular Processing 
Mr. Roger A Bernstein is a Florida Board Certified Immigration attorney with fifteen years of practice devoted exclusively to immigration law. He spent six years with the U.S. Department of Justice serving as an INS trial attorney, sector counsel to the INS' Inspections and Investigations Divisions and INS Asylum Officer. Since co-founding Bernstein Osberg-Braun, LLC in 1998, Mr. Bernstein has focused his practice on assisting immigrant investors, acquiring employment based visas and complex immigration litigation. Mr. Bernstein has represented and counseled foreign governments, Fortune 500 companies and large-privately held companies. He has also successfully acquired non-immigrant visas and residency for hundreds of individuals who desired to live and work in the United States. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Miami School of Law, Roger Bernstein serves on the Miami–Dade County Enterprise Zone Advisory Council, the Board of the American Jewish Committee, the Great Florida Bank Advisory Board and the Florida Bar Immigration Certification Committee. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. Topic: EB-5 Visa Petitions and Worldwide Consular Processing (with Karen Caco)California Golden Fund
Geographic Scope: The Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino, California
Industries: Accommodations; Food Services; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; Manufacturing, including but not limited to Ship Building and Repairing, Metal Fabrication, Printing and Machine Shop; Retail Trade; Construction, including but not limited to Highway, Street and Bridge Construction
Global Premier America Regional Center LLC
Geographic Scope: The Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, Alameda, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and San Francisco, California
Industries: Retail Trade; Food Services; Healthcare and Social Assistance
Inland Empire Renewable Energy Regional Center, LLC
Geographic Scope: The Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino, California
Industries: Administrative services; Business support services; Retail; Distribution; Education; Construction; Engineering and design
Georgia Regional Center, LLC (www.gaeb5.com)
Geographic Scope: Metro Atlanta area which includes Barrow, DeKalb, Lamar, Bartow, Douglas, Meriwether, Butts, Fayette, Newton,Carroll, Forsyth, Paulding, Cherokee, Fulton, Pickens, Clayton, Gwinnett, Pike, Cobb, Haralson, Rockdale, Coweta,Spalding, Dawson, Henry, Walton and Jasper counties in the State of Georgia
Hawaiian Islands Regional Center LLC
Geographic Scope: State of Hawaii
Industries: Nursing Care Facilities; Home Health Care Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Construction
Oregon Regional Center
Geographic Scope: Entire state of Oregon
Industries: Manufacturing; Retail Trade; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; Education Services; Healthcare and Social Assistance; Accommodations and Food Services
Geographic Scope: State of Florida counties of Broward and Miami-Dade
Industries: Construction; Hotel; Food Services; Retail Space; Spa/Fitness Center Facilities; Security; Maintenance
Mr. Raymond Ku, Chairman, Westlead Group of Companies 
With 30 years experience in the practice of immigration law, Mr. Hirson co-manages the Firm's Irvine office and is the partner in charge of Fragomen's Consular Practice, which facilitates the processing of U.S. nonimmigrant and immigrant visa applications filed at U.S. Consulates and Embassies worldwide. He has been certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization for 20 years. He has been retained by many high net worth individuals in their immigration related investments in the U.S. Mr. Hirson currently co-chairs Committee on Consular Processing Southern California Chapter of AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) and chairs on Congressional Liaison Southern California Chapter of AILA. He alo served as chairman of Investors Visa Committee of AILA. Click to see Mr. Hirson's detailed background information. Topics: EB-5 Program Updates
Mr. Gibson is an EB-5 due diligence expert. He also operates EB5info.com which provides information on the EB-5 visa program. His firm has been recognized as EB-5 Media Service Provider of the Year in 2010. Mr. Gibson also serves on the board of directors with the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA). His previous work experience was with Citicorp where he worked in the Capital Markets and Investment Banking divisions as a broker-dealer, securities, foreign exchange, derivatives, money market, credit & debt analyst and portfolio risk manager. His duties involved overseeing Citi's financial operations, structuring financial instruments and hedging bank and client risk and investments in emerging markets in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. In 2007 he established USAdvisors.org as an organization to assist foreign nationals with their EB-5 visa investment decisions. Topic: IIUSA, EB-5 Media, EB-5 Due Diligence
Mr. Wright is considered one of the foremost experts on the EB-5 Immigration Visa program. As an accomplished researcher, analyst and professional author, Kevin has assisted many entrepreneurs in receiving Regional Center designation and subsequent approval of the specific projects that are developed and put into operation through the Regional Center mechanism. As an IMPLAN software specialist, Kevin has authored numerous econometric analysis, in many divergent industries, that demonstrate the employment and economic impacts of these various projects to the USCIS. The Regional Center application process requires Kevin to have an expertise in business plan writing, private placement composition, econometric analysis, complexities of government reporting requirements all coupled with the “hands on” experience necessary to successfully work within this highly specialized industry. Wright Johnson LLC has filed over 20 regional center applications with USCIS with a 100% success rate in the client receiving Regional Center designation. Topics: EB-5 Regional Center Planning, Formation, Project Development & Job Creation Requirements
Mr. McCarthy’s primary area of legal expertise is Immigration Law, including all facets of EB-5 Regional Center and foreign investor immigration applications. He is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has successfully received USCIS approval for multiple EB-5 Regional Centers throughout the United States. His legal practice also includes International Law, Business Law, with an emphasis on private placement memoranda (PPM) and partnership/limited partnership agreements, Litigation, Contract Negotiation and Environmental Law. Before co-founding McAdam & McCarthy, Mr. McCarthy's work experience included the Office of Executive Policy for the Governor of the State of Washington, several large international consulting firms and the United States Geological Survey. Mr. McCarthy is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Courts of the states of Washington and California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Topics: EB-5 Regional Center Planning, Formation, Project Development & Job 
Mr. Su is a leading expert and advisor on marketing US investment projects and real estate properties in Asia and China. Mr. Su has successfully introduced over thirty US investment projects to China over the past two years, and thousands of job creations commitment has been resulted as a result of his efforts. Mr. Su has been assisting Chinese corporations to seek real estate investment opportunities in the U.S. He hosts U.S. investment seminars and conferences around the country and in China. Mr. Su has been interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor, Reuters News, China Daily, China Press, Financial Times, South Morning China Post, News Week and other major media. Come, mingle and talk with Mr. Su to find out how you can better position your investment projects in the marketplace and effectively attract foreign investors; share your thoughts and discuss your issues with Mr. Su one-on-one in San Diego. Mr. Su is also a member of the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA). Topics: EB-5 Market Updates from China
Educated in law, journalism in the United States and World Economy in China, Mr. Qi has a unique sense of understanding and appreciation of the two distinctively diverse universes, and his insights on how the two countries would work together in business and commerce have shaped the law firm’s practice in the past, present and future. As China ascents to the second largest economy in the world, its role in the world economy has for ever changed. Throughout the years of his practice, Mr. Qi has focused on areas of immigration, business litigation and transaction, with a clientele base overwhelmingly Chinese. Not only has Mr. Qi successfully represented thousands of Chinese immigrants in their petitions in EB1, EB2, EB3 and EB5 preferences, he has also prevailed in numerous business litigation cases with values over several million US dollars, not to mention millions of dollar of mergers and acquisition deals he has helped put together. The current surge in EB-5 has bestowed Mr. Qi and his firm a unique opportunity to fully take advantage of their expertise in immigration and business laws. As a guest speaker, Attorney Qi will focus on the topic of the impact of US-China business and commerce, with an emphasis on how the current EB-5 phenomenon will help shape the current and future US-China business in the areas of business investment and immigration. Topics: EB-5 Impact on US-China Business
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Engagement Date | Engagement Format | Deadline to Submit Agenda Items |
| 6/30/2011, 1:00PM - 4:00PM (ET) | Teleconference | 5/27/2011 |
| 9/15/2011, 1:00PM - 4:00PM (ET) | In person (Washington, D.C.) and teleconference | 8/15/2011 |
Silicon Valley California Regional Center (www.siliconvalleyeb5.com)
Geographic Scope: California Counties of Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and San Mateo.
Industries: Accommodations; Food & Beverage; Professional, Scientific and Technical; Office of Physicians; Nursing and Residential Health Care Facilities; General Medical & Surgical Hospitals; Retail
Detroit Immigrant Investor Regional Center
Geographic Scope: Michigan counties of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw
Industries: Motion Pictures and Video Production; Construction-Multi-Family including Residential Condos; Commercial Construction including Hotels and Offices; Restaurants
Crown Point Regional Center (www.eb5tx.com)
Geographic Scope: Texas Counties of Harris and Montgomery
Industries: Construction; Office Space – Legal Services; Office Space – Accounting Services; Office Space – Engineering Services; Office Space – Environmental Consulting; Office Space – Scientific Research and Development; Office Space – Office Support; Retail Trade; Accommodations; Food Services & Drinking Places
Farm for America Regional Center
Geographic Scope: Washington counties of Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Franklin, Klickitat, Okanogan, Walla Walla and Yakima
Industries: Other Farming (Viticulture) and Vegetable Farming
UND Center for Innovation Foundation Regional Center
Geographic Scope: The entire State of North Dakota and 20 counties in Northwestern Minnesota, which includes Kittson, Roseau, Marshall, Pennington, Beltrami, Red Lake, Polk, Norman, Clay, Otter Tail, Douglas, Pope, Traverse, Stevens, Wilkin, Becker, Mahnomen, Clearwater, Grant and Lake of the Woods.
Industries: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Manufacturing; Construction Machinery Manufacturing; Mining Machinery Manufacturing; Aerospace Product & Parts Manufacturing; Information; Research and Development in Biotechnology; Electric Power Transmission, Control and Distribution; Real Estate
