Indian Investors Sue USCIS Over Botched EB-5 Green Cards

Plaintiffs say the agency ignored a 2022 law meant to protect them after their Texas regional center failed — leaving hundreds of thousands in legal limbo.

WASHINGTON — A group of Indian nationals is suing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), claiming the agency unlawfully denied their green card petitions and failed to apply key protections under a 2022 immigration law, writes The Times of India.

The seven plaintiffs, who filed their case in federal court this week, had invested hundreds of thousands of dollars through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, which offers a path to permanent U.S. residency in exchange for job-creating investments.

They allege that USCIS denied their petitions without notifying them that their investment vehicle—a Texas-based regional center—had been terminated. That denial, they argue, violates the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022, which Congress passed to protect good-faith investors in cases of fraud, failure, or noncompliance by regional centers.

All of the plaintiffs are investors who complied with the law, said Alexandra George Santhanam, an attorney representing the group.

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