H. Ronald Klasko, one of the country’s top EB-5 immigration lawyers and founding partner of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP, recently presented “EB-5, Where are We Now?” at the annual meeting of the Mexico City Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Bogota, Colombia.
Mr. Klasko gave a legislative update on the EB-5 program, and reviewed documenting lawful sources of funding for Latin America, developments in adjudications and “musts” when dealing with regional centers.
Chairman of the EB-5 Investor Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Mr. Klasko is a former national President and three-term General Counsel of AILA. For the last 20 years, Mr. Klasko has been included in the highly regarded Best Lawyers in America and is named one of the country’s top immigration lawyers by Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2013. A frequent lecturer and prolific author on immigration law topics, Mr. Klasko is one of only three immigration lawyers ever honored by AILA with the Founders Award–an award given to the individual or group who has had the most important impact on immigration law. A graduate of Lehigh University (B.A. 1971), Mr. Klasko received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1974).