Legal Opinion

HO

Board of Immigration Appeals

Decided July 1, 1998No. ID 3362PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Interim Decision #3362 In re HO, Petitioner In Visa Petition Proceedings WAC 98 072 50493 Decided by the Associate Commissioner, Examinations, July 31, 1998. (1) Merely establishing and capitalizing a new commercial enterprise and signing a commer- cial lease are not sufficient to show that an immigrant-investor petitioner has placed his cap- ital at risk. The petitioner must present, instead, evidence that he has actually undertaken meaningful concrete business activity. (2) The petitioner must establish that he has placed his own capital at risk, that is to say, he must show that he was the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. TREASURE CRAFT OF CALIFORNIABoard of Immigration Appeals · 1972

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Spencer Enterprises, Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
  2. Huashan Zhang v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Servs.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
  3. Does 1-72 v. United States Citizenship & Immigration ServicesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2019
  4. Le v. United States Citizenship and Immigration ServicesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2025
  5. Spencer Enterprises, Inc. Li-Hui Chang, and Chung-Chuan Sun Jerry Chien-Hua Raan Ping Fu Lu v. United States of America United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003

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