Foreign Investors Can Apply Online for Green Cards This Summer
Beginning this summer, foreigners that help finance job-creating U.S. ventures will be able to apply online for visas through the federal government's long-suffering effort to computerize immigration applications.
Citizenship and residency casework largely has been paper-based since the days of Ellis Island. Much of it still is.
But on Thursday evening, federal officials said a form for the EB-5 investor program will mark the second application to be processed through Transformation -- an information technology program facing decades of delays and $2.5 billion in cost overruns. Its public website, called the Electronic Immigration System, or ELIS, launched in September with an application for visa holders who want to extend or change the status of their stays.
The government plans to recompete the Transformation program later this year in an effort to bring down costs and reduce delays.
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