Klasko Immigration Law Partners is pleased to announce that H. Ronald Klasko (Ron), managing partner of the firm, recently presented at the 11th Global Residence and Citizenship Conference in Hong Kong. Ron presented on the E-2 (Treaty Investor) Visa, which when paired with the Grenada Citizenship by Investment program, could be a solution for Chinese investors to avoid the 10 year EB-5 backlog.The conference was hosted by Henley & Partners. The event has become the world’s largest and most significant investment migration conference, with nearly 500 international delegates from over 40 countries, and bringing together presidents, prime ministers, senior government officials, leading academics and industry professionals, as well as top-tier financial and business media.

H. Ronald Klasko (Ron) is one of the country's leading lawyers representing EB-5 clients. Ron represents thousands of foreign investors from all around the world, over 50 approved regional centers and numerous U.S. developers and business owners who have sought his counsel in connection with using the EB-5 program to raise capital for investment projects. Ron’s counsel has included applications to designate new regional centers; applications for pre-approval of projects within regional centers; having projects adopted by existing regional centers; structuring projects to be EB-5 compliant; preparing template I-526 petitions; and advice on successfully marketing EB-5 projects. Ron has successfully represented many direct individual EB-5 investors, direct pooled EB-5 investors and regional center investors. Ron has served five terms as Chair of the EB-5 Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). In this capacity, he has led advocacy efforts with USCIS to improve the EB-5 program. As Chair of the Best Practices Committee of IIUSA, the association of EB-5 regional centers, from 2012 to 2013, Ron worked with regional centers, developers and EB-5 professionals to develop the first comprehensive list of best practices in the EB-5 industry. One of the most prolific EB-5 bloggers, Ron is a sought-after speaker and regularly speaks on EB-5 topics around the country and around the world. Ron has been interviewed by U.S. and Chinese media on numerous occasions and has been quoted in Forbes Magazine and other media on his views on EB-5 matters. A founding member of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP, Ron serves as both its Managing Partner and Chair of the 25 person EB-5 Team of the firm. He has practiced immigration law exclusively for over three decades. Ron is a former national president of AILA. He served as General Counsel of that organization and has been a member of its Board of Governors since 1980. He is one of the only three practicing attorneys ever honored with the AILA Founders Award for his contributions to immigration jurisprudence. A graduate of Lehigh University (B.A. 1971), he received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1974).

Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP has offices in Philadelphia and New York, and provides top-tier legal services to EB-5 investors, regional centers, and developers. Its EB-5 team is one of the largest and most respected in the country, and its Compliance team is the first of its kind. The firm has been selected as one of the top five business immigration law firms in the United States by the prestigious Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers and Partners) for the past ten years. The firm serves as the North American Regional Representative of the Investment Migration Council, the worldwide association for Investor Immigration and Citizenship-by-Investment. For more information, please see www.klaskolaw.com.