The Culinary Implications of an Intellingent Immigrant Investor Policy

As we enter this season of extracaloric extravaganzas, it's interesting to note how ethnicities have crept into my holiday recipes over the years.  As much a product of my restless palate as the result of 25 years of constant immersion in new cuisines, the subtleties never escape me.  I wonder when it was that I first discovered that a few drops of sesame oil in the melted butter made the skin of the turkey a tad sweeter without imparting any Asian flavor.  When did I first curry the carrots accompanying a Christmas Day ham?  And when on EARTH did I ever figure out the desserts made possible with the once unheard-of Mascarpone cheese?Adrian Ho is assistant editor for the Wall Street Journal's Leisure and Arts page and on December 11th, he wrote an incisive com…

New USCIS EB-5 Memo Replaces 2005 Guidance

Folks, our intrepid Amy Link forwarded this "hot off the press" new USCIS memo which replaces the 2005 guidance we've been relying up for EB-5 issues these past few years.  I haven't read it and won't till next week but I will update you when I do.  Don't even THINK about ruining your weekend with this stuff, it's holiday time!Download Dec 11 EB-5 MemoP.S. Remember last year and the whole new I-9 and other regs which were released right around this time?  Couldn't this wait? What is up with the USG "Scrooging" us over yet again…?…

Staying Ahead of the Immigration “Aircraft”

WhenI first learned to fly airplanes many years ago, an expression which I first foundto sound rather unusual would soon come to be a maxim inculcated into all futuretraining: "Stay Ahead of theAircraft."   Putsimply, "staying ahead of the aircraft" simply means the process of continual awareness of what lies ahead, not just in the next mile or minute but as far ahead as you can reasonably anticipate.  Another phrase was that one should "keep one's headoutside of the cockpit" (figuratively, unless you want to eat goosefeathers) to ensure that you could anticipateanything which would affect your flight pattern and focus…anything Mother Nature, technology, or bumbling pilots could throw your way.Early in my initial training, I learned about…