Brinnon resort’s path to visa denied -By Paul Gottlieb – Peninsula Daily News
BRINNON — The federal government has denied an application from The Statesman Group that the developer says is vital to its plans for a $300 million marina-golf resort at Black Point.
Citing the “importance of support,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services earlier this month rejected the company’s application to take part in a temporary visa program, hindering Statesman’s effort to attract foreign investors who could gain permanent visas after two years by putting $500,000 into the project, company President Garth Mann said Friday.
Mann said Statesman has resubmitted the application. Statesman wants the agency to classify the proposed 252-acre Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort south of Brinnon as a “designated regional center” under the federal EB-5 program.
A regional center is “any economic unit, public or private, which is involved with the promotion of economic growth, improved regional productivity, job creation and increased domestic capital investment,” Citizen and Immigration Services spokeswoman Sharon Rummery said.
Under the EB-5 program, 230 foreign residents would each invest $500,000 in the marina-golf resort project.
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