Acting Chief, Business and Foreign Workers Division, Office of Policy and Strategy

1615-AC11 201904 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 1615 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS 1600 Department of Homeland Security DHS EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering making regulatory changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program. DHS issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to seek comment from all interested stakeholders on several topics, including: (1) The process for initially designating entities as regional centers, (2) a potential requirement for regional centers to utilize an exemplar filing process, (3) continued participation requirements for maintaining regional center designation, and (4) the process for terminating regional center designation. While DHS has gathered some information related to these topics, the ANPRM sought additional information that can help the Department make operational and security updates to the Regional Center Program while minimizing the impact of such changes on regional center operations and EB-5 investors.

]]> Other Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage No Undetermined Other 8 CFR 204 8 CFR 216 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5) Pub. L. 102-395, secs. 610 and 601(a) Pub. L. 107-273, sec. 11037 Pub. L. 101-649, sec. 121(a) Pub. L. 105-119, sec. 116 Pub. L. 106-396, sec. 402 Pub. L. 108-156, sec. 4 Pub. L. 112-176, sec. 1 Pub. L. 114-113, sec. 575 Pub. L. 114-53, sec. 131 Pub. L. 107-273 Yes ANPRM 01/11/2017 82 FR 3211 ANPRM Comment Period End 04/11/2017 NPRM 03/00/2020 Yes Businesses None No No www.regulations.gov www.regulations.gov Yes No Brian Hunt Acting Chief, Business and Foreign Workers Division, Office of Policy and Strategy 1615 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS 202 272-8377 202 272-1480 brian.j.hunt@uscis.dhs.gov 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20529-2200