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Associates, Silver was employed with
USCIS, formerly the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, where he was
able to audit policy guidelines and assist
in creating field guides that are still in
use today.
Over his career, Silver has enjoyed
working within the different areas of
immigration law with an emphasis
in business and investment-related
immigration. Silver has devoted the past
10 years of his practice to EB-5 law and
is proud of the work that his firm has
contributed to the EB-5 community.
He has successfully filed over 3,000
I-526 and I-829 petitions. He enjoys
tackling complicated and new fact
patterns and always looks for the most
effective way to garnish an approval for
his clients.
Silver developed his interest in EB-5
work during the late 1990s. At that
time his practice served many small, and
then larger Korean-owned businesses
throughout Los Angeles. The eventual
growth of these business lead to initial
EB-5 filings.
The EB-5 submissions grew over
the years, and Silver was able to
utilize his skills and experience into the
Regional Center growth that would
soon take over the EB-5 community.
Darren Silver & Associates has earned
numerous awards, including being
chosen as the 2011 EB-5 Immigration
Law Firm of the Year by the Artisan
Business Group. The firm has represented several athletes, celebrities, small
businesses, and large and multinational
corporations.
In addition to helping individual
investors, Silver has assisted developers
and projects review possible strategies
for their organizations and business
enterprises. Silver has been a long
standing member of both AILA
and IIUSA. Silver’s firm is fluent in
Mandarin, German, Farsi and Spanish.
Lincoln Stone has practiced EB-5 law
for more than 25 years and his impressive track record includes successfully
representing more than 3,000 EB-5
clients and obtaining removal of conditions for more than 1,000 investors. In
fact, Stone has represented more than
10 percent of all the EB-5 investors ever
to obtain removal of conditions in the
EB-5 program, according to current
USCIS statistics. Additionally, dozens
of his U.S. business and regional center
clients have raised more than $3 billion
in EB-5 capital for some 100 different
commercial enterprises.
Stone has also made notable
contributions to literature on EB-5. He
is editor-in-chief of three editions of
the essential practice book, Immigration
Options for Investors & Entrepreneurs
(AILA), chief editor of the Regional
Center Business Journal (IIUSA), and
author of more than 30 articles on EB-5
practice, policy, and interdisciplinary
topics. He also served 10 years on the
AILA EB-5 Investor Visa Committee,
and for five of those years he served as
chair. In this capacity, he was a leader
in drafting legislative and regulatory
proposals.
Always active in the EB-5 community, from 2007 to 2012 Stone
created and served as chair of four EB-5
conferences for ILW. He then organized
and served as program chair for five
editions of AILA National’s EB-5 Investor
Visa Conference. Stone received two
separate AILA President Commendations
for leadership and advancing the EB-5
investor visa practice.
Stone directs the investor and
entrepreneur practice group at Stone
Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP, a full-service
immigration law boutique of 22 lawyers.
He also leads the active pro bono practice
at the law firm, including a recent stint
at the federal detention center in Artesia,
New Mexico aiding Central American
refugees. Stone previously served as chair
of AILA’s National Pro Bono Committee,
and received two separate AILA President
Commendations for leadership of AILA’s
pro bono efforts.
Stone is listed in numerous peer and
attorney ratings publications, including
The Best Lawyers in America, as one of
the country’s premier practitioners of
immigration law.
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Darren Silver
Darren Silver & Associates LLP
Darren B. Silver is the founding Partner
of Darren Silver & Associates, LLP.
Mr. Silver has a career of over 20 years
exclusively in the field of immigration.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree in
Busines s Administration from the
University of Southern California and
J.D. from WSU School of Law.
Prior to founding Darren Silver &
Lincoln Stone
Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP