The controversial EB-5 program allows wealthy foreigners to, in effect, buy US immigration visas for themselves and families by investing at least US$500,000 in certain development projects. Guests at the event said Kushner’s sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, spoke for about 10 minutes, including about her family’s humble roots. A Kushner Companies spokeswoman declined to comment in a New York Times article about the Beijing event published on Saturday. Journalists from the Times and the Washington Post were removed from Saturday’s Beijing event, the newspapers reported. Its promotional materials for the project, which it also calls Kushner1, advertise the prospect of putting money in under the federal EB-5 program.

Source: Taipei Times May 08, 2017 16:08 UTC