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Elizabeth Peng
Peng & Weber PLLC
Elizabeth Peng is a leading U.S. immigration lawyer in EB-5 and other immigration strategies for Chinese investors and
entrepreneurs. After earning her LLB
degree at China University of Political
Science and Law in Beijing in 1983,
and pursuing LLM studies at the same
university, Peng won a Ford Foundation
scholarship in 1985 to study law in the
Mona Shah
Mona Shah & Associates PLLC
Mona Shah, born in the U.K., is a
dual-licensed attorney who practiced as a
Government Prosecutor with the British
Crown Prosecution Service before moving to New York. Shah was admitted as a
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England
& Wales in 1993, and was admitted to
the New York Bar and the United States
Federal Bar in 1997.
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United States, completing her J.D. degree
at the University of Kansas in 1988.
In 1992, Peng co-founded Peng &
Weber, Attorneys at Law in Seattle and
has since grown Peng & Weber into an
East-West team of eight immigration
lawyers highly regarded for excellence in
a full range of immigration law services
in EB-5, including establishing regional
centers, setting up EB-5 projects, filing
I-924 exemplars, and filing I-526 and
I-829 petitions. Through more than 30
years of legal education and experience in
both countries, Peng has developed deep
knowledge of American and Chinese
legal environments, business practices,
cultures, and languages. Beyond technical
expertise in EB-5 law itself, she understands the serious practical challenges
facing regional centers, developers, EB-5
agents, and EB-5 investors.
A highly regarded legal scholar in the
East-West realm of EB-5, Peng serves as
Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese-language
version of The EB-5 Handbook: A Guide
for Investors and Developers. She has also
published eight professional articles on
EB-5 and other key areas of immigration
law in prestigious immigration law
books and journals of the American
Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA),
Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, and other
professional immigration law publishers.
Peng also frequently speaks on Chinese
EB-5 visa issues for AILA, Asian Real
Estate Association of America (AREAA),
Immigration Lawyers on the Web (ILW.
com), Pincus Professional Education,
EB5investors.com, and other major
organizations in the USA and China.
Among other recognitions, Peng
currently serves on AILA’s national EB-5
Conference Committee and is included in the 2016 edition of Who’s Who
Legal: Corporate Immigration. She has also
been quoted several times in The Seattle
Times and other major media on EB-5
visa issues and other immigration-related
issues.
Shah has over 23 years o f legal
experience and extensive knowledge of
all facets of U.S. immigration law; her
practical expertise ranges from specialist
business petitions to complicated, multiissue federal deportation litigation. Shah
has handled complex immigration law
appeals before the United States Circuit
Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third,
Fifth, and Eleventh circuits.
Shah’s ability to view the EB-5
program from both legal and business
standpoints has fueled her success, and
her international history has uniquely
equipped her to market her regional
centers overseas.
Highly proficient and experienced in
EB-5 law, the firm equally represents
projects, investors and regional centers.
Shah and her team also act as co-counsel
for many lawyers who are just beginning
in EB-5, and troubleshoot for both
regional centers and attorneys. Shah
was the original founder of the first
EB-5 regional center in New York.
Shah’s practice covers everything EB-5,
from structuring and drafting offering
documents, to liaising with overseas
agents, to marketing overseas and filing
USCIS petitions.
Shah has authored numerous articles
and blog pieces in EB-5 and she is the
author of a published book for investors.
Shah regularly speaks at seminars
worldwide, has been interviewed by
mainstream news channels, quoted
in major newspapers and has a series
of podcasts called “Investment Voice.”
Shah has been honored for her work
by various groups and non for profit
organizations. Shah is also an adjunct
professor at Baruch University, New York
City, which is the first city university to
offer an EB-5 specialized course geared
towards developers and practitioners.
Shah is also a member of the Policy
Committee for IIUSA and regularly
lobbies in Washington D.C.
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