Directory Of Professionals - AIIA

Christian Triantaphyllis is a career immigration attorney with 10 years of experience working with individual investors, broker dealers, project developers, and Regional Centers. Christian’s specialty lies in business law and employment immigration, where he regularly counsels Regional Centers and real estate developers on how to structure EB-5 funding, analyzing business plans and economic reports for projects. Christian is also well versed in SEC, USCIS, and U.S. immigration law regulations,making him a valuable multifaceted asset to any development team.

Michael Harris is an accredited attorney who has practiced immigration law for over 15 years, and has earned his status as a board certified immigration law specialist for the past nine years. Michael has previously worked in investment securities and business marketing, informing his current counseling for project developers, investment issuers, and investors in the EB-5 industry. Michael has represented various Regional Centers sponsoring projects with fundraising goals of all sizes, including projects raising up to $250 million in investment capital. He has ample experience working with Regional Centers and project developers both, including serving as counsel to direct and indirect “exemplar” projects in a variety of industries.

Nicolai is a former corporate securities attorney who has nearly 20 years of experience counseling Regional Centers and project developers in finding EB-5 capital. He regularly assists developers and investment issuers in filing RC designation applications and forms for exemplar projects. Nicolai’s firm, Miller Mayer LLP, is a legacy law firm in the EB-5 industry for its outstanding work lobbying for the EB-5 program and counseling all parties involved in the process. Nicolai has extensive experience working with investors from India, Vietnam, South Africa, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and many other countries around the world.

Rana Jazayerli has nearly twenty-five (25) years of experience as a litigator and immigration attorney, and is the founding attorney for Jazayerli Law, LLC, an immigration law firm based in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Columbia Law School in New York, Ms. Jazayerli has extensive expertise in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa program, representing individuals seeking U.S. permanent residency through investment, and U.S. companies seeking EB-5 Regional Center designation to allow them to finance job creating projects. An experienced litigator, she has also filed numerous successful federal mandamus actions in U.S. District Courts on behalf of clients whose adjudication of immigration petitions and applications, including I-526/E Petitions, I-485 Applications, and I-829 Petitions, have been unreasonably delayed. Ms. Jazayerli regularly speaks on EB-5 related panels and is a member of the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA), where she serves on its Best Practices Committee, and is a member of the American Immigrant Investor Alliance (“AIIA”), an organization founded by EB-5 investors to educate and inform EB-5 investors and to advocate on their behalf.