State to USCIS: Don’t shutter EB-5 center just yet

Mike Pieciak, commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerVermont officials are asking the federal government to reconsider a decision to immediately shutter the state-run EB-5 regional center.The Department of Financial Regulation contends that a slower approach would better protect immigrant investors and the developers of projects already in the pipeline.The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal administrator of the EB-5 program, se