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Solving for illegal immigration. Buy a visa for half a mil!

 

The winning just doesn't stop!

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/06/news/jared-kushner-nicole-family-event/

 

The Kushner family hopes to lure investments from wealthy business owners in China with the promise of American visas.

Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, spoke at an event in Beijing on Saturday. She was marketing a Kushner-owned property in New Jersey -- invest in the development and get into the United States on a so-called EB-5 visa.

The EB-5 visa allows immigrants a path to a green card if they invest more than $500,000 in a project that creates jobs in the United States.

An ad for the event, held at a Ritz-Carlton hotel, said "Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States."

The EB-5 visa has been used by the Trump and Kushner family businesses. Foreigners, particularly wealthy Chinese nationals, have used the EB-5 program as a ticket into the states. And that promise has helped attract foreign investments for U.S. real estate projects.

President Trump has taken an anti-immigration stance and vowed to severely tighten the use of work visas. The EB-5 program has come under fire by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

Lawmakers say the program essentially sells citizenship to high-income foreigners.

On Saturday, potential investors in the Kushner project were told they should act quickly because possible policy changes to the EB-5 program might raise the required minimum investment.

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13 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

Solving for illegal immigration. Buy a visa for half a mil!

 

The winning just doesn't stop!

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/06/news/jared-kushner-nicole-family-event/

 

The Kushner family hopes to lure investments from wealthy business owners in China with the promise of American visas.

Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, spoke at an event in Beijing on Saturday. She was marketing a Kushner-owned property in New Jersey -- invest in the development and get into the United States on a so-called EB-5 visa.

The EB-5 visa allows immigrants a path to a green card if they invest more than $500,000 in a project that creates jobs in the United States.

An ad for the event, held at a Ritz-Carlton hotel, said "Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States."

The EB-5 visa has been used by the Trump and Kushner family businesses. Foreigners, particularly wealthy Chinese nationals, have used the EB-5 program as a ticket into the states. And that promise has helped attract foreign investments for U.S. real estate projects.

President Trump has taken an anti-immigration stance and vowed to severely tighten the use of work visas. The EB-5 program has come under fire by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

Lawmakers say the program essentially sells citizenship to high-income foreigners.

On Saturday, potential investors in the Kushner project were told they should act quickly because possible policy changes to the EB-5 program might raise the required minimum investment.

They don't need to promote this because almost any Chinese foreign national that has any type of money has already done this in order to either secure a US visa or squirrel away savings from the Chinese government. This is a very widely known fact here in the SGV that the Chinese are doing this. Also it's one of the biggest reasons why late last year China put a limit on how much money can be taken out of the country per person per year. This is all because they lost over a Trillion yes a Trillion dollar reserves because their people are taking their money and stashing it away in Austrailia, NZ, Canada, and the USA. It is one of the reasons why there has been a housing boom due to the Chinese buying properties as a form of a savings. 

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31 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

And yet, they are promoting it this year, whereas they didn't last year.

In my opinion they are using the Kushner name, because it is now associated with the White House, which poses yet another ethical issue to the current administration.

 

 

I am not arguing with you there on either case, but how is it an ethical problem for him? If my family want to use the family name for business dealings then how does it correlate back to me if there was no relationship?

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Organisers barred journalists on Sunday from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai that offered Chinese investors the chance to get U.S. immigrant visas if they put money in a real estate project linked to the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law.

The two-tower luxury apartment complex in New Jersey, One Journal Square, is being developed by KABR Group and the Kushner Companies, which until recently was headed by senior White House advisor Jared Kushner, the husband of Trump's daughter Ivanka.

The developers are seeking to raise $150 million, or 15.4 percent of funding for the project, from investors through the EB-5 visa programme, according to marketing materials posted by the event's organiser, immigration agency Qiaowai.

The controversial EB-5 programme allows wealthy foreigners to, in effect, buy U.S. immigration visas for themselves and families by investing at least $500,000 in certain development projects.

"Sorry, this is a private event," said a man stopping journalists from entering a function room on Sunday afternoon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai.

Guests at the event said Kushner's sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, spoke for about 10 minutes, including about her family's humble roots.

According to the New York Times, Meyer attended a similar event in Beijing on Saturday and told the audience of about 100 people the project "means a lot to me and my entire family".

Jared Kushner, whose White House portfolio includes relations with China, sold his stake in Kushner Companies to a family trust early this year. His lawyer said in a statement in March that Kushner was fully complying with ethics rules, removing himself from active participation in his prior businesses and divesting assets.

Kushner Companies spokeswoman declined to comment in a New York Times article about the Beijing event published on Saturday.

The Times story said Meyer did not respond when asked if she was concerned about possible conflicts of interest facing her brother. Journalists from the Times and Washington Post were removed from Saturday's Beijing event, the newspapers reported.

One potential investor, Sophie Xing, said a "very important" factor in her decision to attend Sunday's event was the fact that the project was a Kushner Companies investment and that Trump's son-in-law's sister would be showing up in Shanghai.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/journalists-banned-jared-kushner-s-shanghai-event-chinese-us-immigrant-visas-exchange-for-investment-a7722506.html

 

Friday Trump fast tracks immigration for investors.

Saturday Kushner's sister pitches to investors .

Hmmm...

kushner companies lawyer has offered a quasi-apology.

grifters!!!! 

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29 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I am not arguing with you there on either case, but how is it an ethical problem for him? If my family want to use the family name for business dealings then how does it correlate back to me if there was no relationship?

It's a problem when there's a power-point presentation with Donald Trump's face on it basically saying - give us money and Donald Trump gets to choose which one of you will obtain this visa personally..?

 

This is one type of visa I've always had a problem with, and to have no iota of impropriety the Kushner name has no business in peddling.

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4 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

It's a problem when there's a power-point presentation with Donald Trump's face on it basically saying - give us money and Donald Trump gets to choose which one of you will obtain this visa personally..?

This is one type of visa I've always had a problem with, and to have no iota of impropriety the Kushner name has no business in peddling.

I definitely have a problem with this kind of visa myself because I actually see the end result of this and how it hurts people in this country. I saw this article on the WSJ as well, and it said that Kushner has sold his stake of the family company but I'll believe when I see it. 

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1 hour ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I am not arguing with you there on either case, but how is it an ethical problem for him? If my family want to use the family name for business dealings then how does it correlate back to me if there was no relationship?

Isn't that the definition of family?  A relationship? 

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7 hours ago, CaliCat said:

And yet, they are promoting it this year, whereas they didn't last year.

 

In my opinion they are using the Kushner name, because it is now associated with the White House, which poses yet another ethical issue to the current administration.

 

 

Do you remember Billy Beer?

 

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9 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Do you remember Billy Beer?

 

 

yup, I also remember Carter selling his peanut farm to resolve any potential conflict of interest with him being president.  What ever happened to those standards of ethics? 

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