Huashan Zhang v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Servs.

Emmet G. Sullivan, United States District Judge

I. Introduction

Almost thirty years ago, Congress established the EB-5 Visa Program ("the *40Program") to stimulate the economy and create jobs through foreign capital investment. Under the Program, "alien investors" may become eligible to immigrate to the United States in return for investing certain qualifying amounts of capital in a commercial enterprise in the United States. Plaintiffs in this case are individual alien investors whose EB-5 visa petitions were denied by the agency that oversees the Program: the United States Citizenship and…