An EB5 lawyer prepares your EB-5 investor petition, traces the lawful source of the money you invest, checks the regional centre or project documents, and later files Form I-829 to remove the conditions on your green card. Compare 14 law firms and advisers by credentials, regulator, fees and programme expertise.
Firm listings last checked by GVL: 11 September 2026
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Quick answer: this directory lists 14 USA Golden Visa providers, unranked, with paid profiles listed first. 3 independent firms have passed GVL's full firm credentials check, a separate review from the bar-number count: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Harvey Law Group and Miller Mayer LLP. Use the filters to narrow by provider type, language and fees.
EB-5 is the U.S. investor green card written into statute. You invest in a new commercial enterprise, directly or through a regional centre, receive a two-year conditional green card, and then show the investment and the job creation held up to have the conditions removed.
Since December 2025 there is also the Gold Card, a separate gift-based route created by executive order. It is covered in its own section below, after the EB-5 detail.
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Greenberg Traurig’s U.S. immigration practice represents individual EB-5 investors, regional centers and project developers. Kate Kalmykov is Shareholder and Co-Chair of its Global Immigration & Compliance practice.
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Ithaca, New York law firm Miller Mayer LLP representing individual EB-5 investors, regional centers and project developers. Its EB-5 partners include Kristal Ozmun and Nicolai Hinrichsen.
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WR Immigration (Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP) advises individual investors on EB-5 and E-2 matters and provides separate regional-center and developer services, with a main office in Santa Monica.
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Investment-migration advisory firm helping clients assess second residence and citizenship options through impact-investment programs worldwide.
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London-based investment-migration consultancy advising on citizenship and residence by investment across the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
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Independent international residence and citizenship advisory founded in 2014, with offices in London, Lisbon, Athens and Istanbul.
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UK-registered investment-migration advisory helping international clients compare and apply for residence and citizenship programmes.
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Global residence and citizenship advisory group.
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U.S. immigration law firm Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP, headquartered at 2000 Market Street, Philadelphia, advising EB-5 and E-2 investors, regional centers and developers.
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Cross-border practice serving clients between Brazil, Portugal and the United States, led by Managing Partner Luciano Navas Rodrigues de Oliveira, licensed in Brazil (OAB/SP), Texas and California.
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Dubai-based investment-migration and international-tax advisory group supporting high-net-worth individuals and families across U.S., European, Caribbean and UAE residence and citizenship programmes.
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Adam Schaye is a Partner in the immigration group at Miller Mayer, where his practice is dedicated to EB-5 immigrant investor matters. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 2000.
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Dillon R. Colucci is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's Immigration & Compliance practice in Los Angeles, working on EB-5 and employment-based immigration. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2013.
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Managing Partner of WR Immigration, advising on business and investment visas, including EB-5, and a State Bar of California Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law.
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Kate Kalmykov is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and Co-Chair of its Global Immigration & Compliance practice. She was admitted to the New York bar in 2006.
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Ian R. Macdonald is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, where he founded the firm's Atlanta immigration practice. He was admitted to the New York bar in 2000.
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Courtney Brooks is a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and Co-Chair of its Immigration & Compliance practice. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 2010.
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Kristal Ozmun is a partner in Miller Mayer's Immigration Group. She was admitted to the New York bar in 2009, and the firm also lists her Massachusetts admission.
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Anna Angel is a Partner in the immigration group at Miller Mayer. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 2013.
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Nataliya "Natasha" Rymer is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's Immigration & Compliance practice in Philadelphia. She focuses on employment-based immigration and compliance, including labor certification, employment-based visas, I-9 and H-1B compliance, immigration due diligence in M&A and EB-5 immigrant investors. She was admitted in New York in 2006.
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Nicolai Hinrichsen is a Partner in Miller Mayer's Immigration Group, focused on EB-5. He represents regional centres and developers structuring EB-5 projects, and individual investors seeking permanent residence through regional-centre or direct EB-5 investments. He is admitted in New York (2000) and California (2002), and holds a JD from Boston University School of Law and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Preeya Malik is Managing Director of Step Global, leading its investment-migration, global-mobility and international-tax advisory work. She is a US-qualified lawyer, admitted to the Florida Bar in 2010, with a Juris Doctor from the University of Toledo and an LL.M. in real-estate development law from the University of Miami. Her background includes legal work for large US developers and long-established immigration firms in Canada.
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Xinyi (Chris) Mo is an Associate in Greenberg Traurig's Immigration & Compliance practice, based in the New Jersey office. Admitted in New York (2024); not admitted in New Jersey.
View the record→The work runs in five stages, each tied to a USCIS form or an evidence trail (forms named on USCIS's EB-5 page, checked 26 Sep 2026):
Petition: Form I-526E for an investment through a regional centre, or Form I-526 for a standalone investment.
Source of funds: USCIS requires you to show the capital was obtained through lawful means and to document the path of the funds into the enterprise (USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part G, Chapter 2). Loans count only if secured by your own assets and you are personally and primarily liable.
Project due diligence: the offering documents, the regional centre's designation, the fees charged to investors and how the capital is meant to create the required jobs.
Green card stage: if you are in the United States and a visa is immediately available, Form I-485 can be filed at the same time as the petition (USCIS EB-5 questions and answers). Otherwise the approved petition goes to the National Visa Center and you interview at a U.S. embassy or consulate (State Department, checked 26 Sep 2026).
Condition removal: Form I-829, filed in the 90 days immediately before the two-year conditional residence expires. Missing that window ends your conditional status unless USCIS accepts good cause for a late filing (USCIS Form I-829, checked 26 Sep 2026).
For petitions filed since 15 March 2022, EB-5 requires $1,050,000 in a standard project, or $800,000 in a targeted employment area (TEA) or infrastructure project.
Both amounts rise automatically on 1 January 2027 and every five years after that, so confirm which figure applies to your filing date (USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part G, Chapter 2, checked 26 Sep 2026).
The EB-5 capital must be at risk, must be expected to stay invested for at least two years, and must create full-time positions for at least 10 qualifying employees (USCIS).
The EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 reauthorised the regional centre programme through 30 September 2027 and added integrity rules a lawyer should check against your specific regional centre (USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part G, Chapter 1, checked 26 Sep 2026):
Annual statement: each regional centre files Form I-956G every fiscal year, including the fees collected from investors, who received them and why (USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part G, Chapter 4).
Audits: USCIS audits each regional centre at least once every five years.
Bars: anyone with a fraud or deceit offence in the previous 10 years, among other disqualifications, cannot be involved in a regional centre.
Promoters: regional centres must keep written agreements with the promoters acting for them.
Integrity Fund: regional centres pay $20,000 a year, or $10,000 with 20 or fewer investors, which funds audits, site visits and fraud investigations (USCIS, checked 26 Sep 2026).
Set-asides: 20% of EB-5 visas are reserved for rural projects, 10% for high-unemployment areas and 2% for infrastructure projects (USCIS).
EB-5 visas are subject to visa availability and per-country limits, and the State Department's monthly Visa Bulletin sets the cut-off dates (Visa Bulletin for September 2026, checked 26 Sep 2026).
Unreserved EB-5, September 2026 final action dates: mainland China-born 1 December 2016; India unavailable; every other country current.
Rural, high-unemployment and infrastructure set-asides: current for every country, China and India included.
India's unreserved EB-5 visas for fiscal year 2026 were all issued by 5 June 2026, and the limits reset on 1 October 2026 (State Department notice). Check the latest bulletin with your lawyer before you commit to a project.
Only a lawyer in good standing with the bar of a U.S. state or territory, or an accredited representative, can give U.S. immigration legal advice. USCIS tells applicants to ask for the lawyer's current licence and verify it with the state agency that licenses them (USCIS, find legal services, checked 26 Sep 2026).
That licence comes from a state bar, not from USCIS, so look the lawyer up on their state bar's own register rather than relying on a claimed USCIS approval.
Many investment-migration advisories listed here are not U.S. law firms and may work alongside U.S.-admitted counsel. Ask which arrangement you are buying, whether the lawyer also acts for the regional centre or project, and for an itemised quote in writing.
Executive Order 14351 was signed on 19 September 2025 and the programme opened to applications in December 2025. The gift itself is made to the Department of Commerce; the Department of Homeland Security takes a $15,000 processing fee and runs the vetting. The petition is filed with USCIS on Form I-140G.
Both figures are per person. An individual applicant gives $1,000,000 and pays $15,000, and each family member (a spouse and unmarried children under 21) needs their own $1,000,000 gift and their own $15,000 fee. The Form I-140G filing fee is that same $15,000 processing fee, one fee rather than two. A family of four is therefore around $4,000,000 plus $60,000, not $1,015,000. Department of State visa fees and a required medical examination sit on top of both figures, again per applicant. The corporate route is $2,000,000 per employee, with a 1% annual maintenance fee and a 5% transfer fee on top (trumpcard.gov, checked 26 Sep 2026).
The $15,000 fee is non-refundable and paid up front; the $1,000,000 gift is requested only once vetting is complete. It is a gift, not an investment, and no part of it is structured to return.
The order treats the gift as evidence of eligibility. Subject to visa availability, a successful applicant receives lawful permanent residence in the EB-1 or EB-2 category, unconditional, with no two-year conditional period to remove. Uptake has been very low: according to a DHS court filing reported by CNBC on 8 May 2026, 338 people had applied and 165 processing fees had been paid, and the Commerce Secretary testified in April 2026 that one applicant had been approved.
The Gold Card was created by executive order, not by an act of Congress. A future administration can end it and its legal basis is open to challenge in court, whereas EB-5 sits in statute. The government also names national-security and significant criminal risks as a basis for revoking a Gold Card once granted. Permanent residence on either route makes you a U.S. tax resident, taxed on worldwide income (trumpcard.gov).
An EB5 lawyer prepares the EB-5 petition (Form I-526E for a regional centre investment, Form I-526 for a standalone one), documents the lawful source and path of your funds, reviews the project and regional centre documents, handles the green card stage through adjustment of status or consular processing, and files Form I-829 to remove the conditions after two years.
EB-5 requires $1,050,000 in a standard project, or $800,000 in a targeted employment area or infrastructure project. Both figures rise automatically on 1 January 2027. The EB-5 capital must be at risk and create at least 10 full-time jobs, and the investor receives a two-year conditional green card first.
EB-5 visas are subject to visa availability and per-country limits. In the September 2026 Visa Bulletin, the unreserved EB-5 category had a final action date of 1 December 2016 for mainland China-born applicants and was unavailable for India, while the rural, high-unemployment and infrastructure set-asides were current for both. Check the latest bulletin before you choose a project.
Ask which U.S. state bar the lawyer belongs to and look them up on that bar's own register. USCIS says only lawyers in good standing with a U.S. state or territory bar, or accredited representatives, can give U.S. immigration legal advice. The licence comes from the state bar, not from USCIS, so a claimed USCIS approval is no substitute for the bar record.
No. You can file an EB-5 petition without a lawyer, and Gold Card applicants can file Form I-140G themselves. Applicants who want help usually bring in U.S.-admitted immigration counsel for source-of-funds, project and admissibility questions, with separate U.S. tax advice where needed. Several large investment-migration advisories are not U.S. law firms: they work alongside U.S.-admitted counsel, so ask which arrangement you are buying before you engage.
No. The Gold Card is a non-refundable gift with no enterprise and no job creation, and, subject to approval and visa availability, it leads to permanent residence without a conditional period. EB-5 capital is invested at risk in a business that must create jobs, and it leads to a conditional green card first.
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