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He regularly works with developers
across a variety of industries, as well as
private equity funds on developing new
projects that qualify for EB-5 investments.
This includes the creation of new Regional
Centers, having projects adopted by existing Regional Centers or through pooled
individual EB-5 petitions. Colucci also
counsels foreign nationals on obtaining
permanent residency through individual
or Regional Center EB-5 investments.
Additionally, Colucci focuses his practice
on employment-based immigration and
compliance. Colucci represents clients
in a wide range of employment-based
immigrant and non-immigrant matters,
including professionals, managers and
executives, artists and entertainers, treaty
traders and investors, immigrant investors,
and persons of extraordinary ability.
Colucci previo usly worked for
Greenberg Traurig as an immigration
paralegal prior to attending law school, assisting on employment-based immigration
and compliance and EB-5 matters in the
Northern Virginia office. Colucci regularly
speaks on all aspects of the EB-5 program
to a variety of audiences, including other
EB-5 professionals, tax professionals and
real estate professionals. Colucci has
been published in EB5investors.com,
EB5investors Magazine, the AILA EB-5
handbook, AILA insights, EB5insights.
com and the San Diego County Bar
Association Journal. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, the
National Italian-American Bar Association
and Sons of Italy.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree
from George Washington University and
graduated cum laude from the California
Western School of Law in San Diego in
2012. Colucci spent his formative years in
Albany, NY, and has lived in Washington,
DC, San Diego, CA, Newport Beach, CA
and now New York City. He is passionate
about soccer, his work, dogs, travel,
chocolate, pasta, frozen yogurt and the
beach.
Cindy Jen leads the EB-5 team in
Fragomen’s Northern California practice,
where she regularly counsels investors on
obtaining permanent residency through
EB-5. Jen first joined Fragomen’s Silicon
Valley office in 2000 and focused on
providing strategic counseling on a widerange of employment-based immigrant
and nonimmigrant visa matters.
Jen possesses extensive business
immigration experience advising
companies—from large, Fortune 100
corporations to start-up businesses—on
developing compliant, global immigration programs to suit dynamic business
needs. While her career at Fragomen
started with immigration counseling to
large, multinational corporations, her
practice now has a particular focus on
U.S. immigration options for investors,
entrepreneurs and start-ups in Silicon
Valley, which she finds tremendously
fascinating.
Jen’s involvement with EB-5
intensified when she took an assignment
to work in Fragomen’s Beijing and
Shanghai office, where she partnered
with the firm’s Worldwide Private Client
Practice to provide local support for
significant investor visa applications for
Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom
and the United States. While with
Fragomen China, she was invited to
speak at a number of events on investor
visa matters, ranging from the US-China
Chamber of Commerce to the British
Embassy in Beijing.
During Jen’s assignment in China,
the significant growth of interest in
EB-5 by Chinese nationals, and her
background as a U.S. attorney, made
the U.S. investor program a significant
part of her practice. In addition, Cindy
also advised multinational companies
in China on U.S. immigration matters,
with a significant focus on Chinese
technology companies. As a Bay Area
native, Jen is a loyal fan to San Francisco
sports teams, including running her first
half-marathon to get the commemorative
Giants bobblehead. She practices yoga
and significant amounts of meditative
sitting during long, trans-Pacific flights
to Asia. She earned her Juris Doctor
degree from the University of California,
Hastings College of Law, and two
Bachelor of Arts degrees from the
University of California, Berkeley. Cindy
speaks English and Mandarin Chinese.
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Dillon Colucci
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Dillon Colucci is an immigration
associate in the New York office of
Greenberg Traurig. Colucci practices and
handles U.S. immigration concerns and
helps individuals, families, professionals,
skilled workers, investors, and businesses
live, work, invest and do business in the
United States. Colucci works extensively
on EB-5 immigrant investor matters.
Cindy Jen
Fragomen Worldwide