About Us...Who We Are
A. SEARLE FIELD, President
USA Global Access, llc
Mystic, CT
Mr. Field is an attorney with an extensive background in business, government, and the law. In recent years he has built on solid experience in finance and investment to launch a number of projects using overseas investors. His recent experience financing major developments in Connecticut follows prior stints advising professional sports franchises and the largest casino in the world.
From 1995 to 1999, he oversaw the management of Foxwoods Resort and Casino, first with direct responsibilities and later as an advisor to the Mashantucket Tribal Nation and Foxwoods. During that time, Foxwoods grew to become the largest and most profitable casino in the world, with extremely low debt levels. That was followed by a period of advising major sports franchises as a principal of Sportscorp Ltd. of Chicago, including the New York Yankees in the early 2000s.
These activities have expanded to focus more directly on real estate financing, with funding through the federal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services programs for foreign investors, notably funding
the largest development project in the State of Connecticut, as well as a number of high-end hotels and a remarkable internet retail success.
Searle has a degree in economics from Princeton University and graduated at the top of his class from Georgetown Law Center. After being appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he served on the U.S. Senate Watergate investigation, and, later, as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Intelligence Committee in the United States Congress, uniquely heading up both the Democratic and Republican staffs. This time period covered assignments that ranged from the prosecution of Presidential tax returns to the reinvestigation of the Kennedy Assassination.
In the 1980s, Searle was the CEO of Field Industries, Inc., a leading regional construction
materials business. He was also the Founding Chairman of a successful regional commercial bank, and Chairman of a wholesale oil business with facilities in Connecticut and Massachusetts. During the severe banking crisis that crippled the Connecticut economy in the early 1990s, Searle was brought in by Governor Lowell Weicker to serve as President of the quasi-public Connecticut Development Authority, overseeing a substantial and significant credit response that helped stabilize Connecticut’s commercial lending and broader job markets by using unique credit enhancement techniques and legislative tax initiatives. Searle also served as Chief of Staff to Governor Weicker in the early to mid-1990s.
Searle has made extensive use of his career-long passion for leadership and personal
effectiveness behaviors through an entity he founded that has done extensive executive training in entities he has been involved with. Much of his focus with Foxwoods was in the area of leadership development, in collaboration with the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina and Yale University.
Searle lives in Mystic, Connecticut, with his wife Lauralee, is the father of Laura and Evan, and has a long-term interest in Mystic Seaport, where he has served as a Board Member for almost
years.
RONALD R. FIELDSTONE, Esq.
Securities and Business Attorney
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
Miami, FL
Mr. Fieldstone (Ronnie) is a partner in the Miami office of Arnstein & Lehr LLP, specializing in corporate/securities and taxation law.
Mr. Fieldstone is a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust and the Tax Law Sections of The Florida Bar. Mr. Fieldstone has published numerous articles and has been a lecturer in the fields of real estate, corporate, tax law and franchise law for the past 37 years. He currently practices primarily in the areas of
corporate/securities and taxation law.
Since 2009 Mr. Fieldstone has actively been involved in serving as corporate/securities counsel for multifaceted industries involving EB-5 immigrant visa investor offerings (“EB-5”). The EB-5 visa is
a United States visa created by the Immigration Act of 1992. This visa provides a method of obtaining a green card for foreign nationals who invest money in the United States. Mr. Fieldstone represents a vast number of Regional Centers in EB-5 offerings, involving in excess of 80 projects. Mr. Fieldstone’s corporate/securities work includes the preparation of private placement memoranda and related documents. Mr. Fieldstone actively lectures and publishes in the EB-5 corporate/securities fields.
Mr. Fieldstone was a principal in a Blockbuster Video franchise that operated 25 stores in eight states from 1987 until October, 1995, when the business was sold to the franchisor. He is a principal of a multi-state lithotripsy company and was also a principal of Barnie’s Coffee and Tea, Inc., the owner of the Barnie’s operating system with approximately 80 corporate units and 20 franchised units from 2001 until 2004.
Mr. Fieldstone has extensive real estate holdings in the state of Florida and served as a managing partner of Landmark Residential from 1999 until 2008, which has served as the sponsor and manager of approximately 20,000 multi-family units in the states of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and North Carolina.
Mr. Fieldstone has recently been appointed committee member of the IIUSA Best Practices Committee. He has also been active in numerous civic and charitable organizations, including currently serving as vice president, director and chairman of the Institutional Review Board of the Miami Jewish Medical Center, general counsel and a trustee of the Society of Laproendoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons, and special counsel and an advisor to the Board of Trustees of Actors Playhouse at Miracle Theatre. In addition, Mr. Fieldstone has recently become a member of the Shanghai Association of International Economic & Technological Cooperation Committee.
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1974) Wharton School (MBA 1974) Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1971, Magna Cum Laude).
H. RONALD KLASKO, Esq.
Immigration Attorney
Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP
Philadelphia, PA
H. Ronald Klasko (Ron) is widely recognized by businesses, universities, hospitals, scholars, investors and other lawyers as one of the country’s leading immigration lawyers. A founding member of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP and its Managing Partner, he has practiced immigration law exclusively over three decades.
Under his leadership, the firm has been chosen every year for the last ten years by the highly regarded Chambers Global 2015 as one of the top five immigration law firms in the United States; Ron himself is recognized annually as being in Tier One of immigration lawyers by Chambers Global and U.S. News and World Report. In addition, he has been included in the highly regarded Best Lawyers In America for two decades and has also been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Lawdragon’s/Human Resource Executive’s list of The Most Powerful Employment Attorneys Guide. Who’s Who Legal in Corporate Immigration named him as the most highly regarded immigration lawyer in the world.
A former National President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Ron served as General Counsel of that organization for three Presidents and has been a member of its Board of Governors since 1980. He has served as National Chair of AILA’s U.S. Department of Labor Liaison Committee and Business Immigration Committee, and he served as National Chair of that organization’s INS General Counsel Liaison Committee and the National Task Forces on Labor Certifications, H-1 visas, L-1 visas and Employer Sanctions. He completed his fifth term as Chair of the EB-5 Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in 2017. Ron is one of only three practicing attorneys ever honored with the AILA Founders Award for his contributions to immigration jurisprudence.
At the request of members of Congress and their staffs, Ron has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. He has been invited to lecture and provide training to staff members and lawyers of the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of State, INS General Counsel Management Conference, Immigration Judges Association and U.S. Department of Justice. In addition, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at Villanova University Law School and is a frequent lecturer on immigration law subjects.
A member of the prestigious Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers, Ron is the co-author of the two volume Employers’ Immigration Compliance Guide (Matthew Bender 1985). He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
ANU NAIR, Esq.
Immigration Attorney
Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP
Philadelphia, PA
Anusree (Anu) Nair, a Partner at Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP, manages the Investor Division of the firm's EB-5 Practice. Anu and her team are responsible for all investor filings, which includes I-526 Petitions, consular processing and adjustment of status applications, and I-829 Petitions.
As the Investor Team’s managing partner, Anu is responsible for the preparation and filing of all EB-5 Petitions, both through regional center investments and individual investment opportunities. Anu’s command of investor-related issues is recognized within the field and she is frequently called on to review EB-5 cases prepared by other law firms to ensure compliance with USCIS’ extremely rigorous standards. Anu is routinely retained to respond to difficult Notices of Intent to Deny and to file appeals for denials received by other firms. She represents clients at visa interviews, both at U.S. Consulates overseas and with the Citizenship and Immigration Services in the United States.
Anu has extensive experience in both employment-based and family-based immigration. Prior to joining the EB-5 team, Anu represented hospitals, international record companies, multinational businesses, and major production companies in securing a variety of employment-based immigration benefits for their employees. Anu also assists clients with family-based immigration matters and represents clients before the Immigration Court, the Citizenship and Immigration Service, and Customs and Border Protection.
Anu is a 2006 graduate of Baruch College where she majored in Biology. She went on to obtain her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she served as submissions editor of the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender. Prior to joining KILP, Anu practiced with an immigration law firm in New York City and was an Adjunct Lecturer of Biology at Baruch Colleg
Jeff Carr, Economist
President, Economic & Policy Resources, Inc.
Williston, VT
Jeff Carr is the President of EPR and as such is responsible for overseeing activities of the company as a whole. He is also involved in the management of the EB-5 Program and public policy practices of the firm.
Jeff Carr has more than 34 years of experience as an economist/analyst, with particular expertise in economic impact studies, project business plans, and regional center operations business plans for submission to the EB-5 Program, macroeconomics, economic forecasting, economic impact analysis, strategic economic development policy, housing supply and demand studies, and fiscal policy analysis for federal, state, and local government. He has served as the State Economist and Principal Revenues Analyst for the Vermont Agency of Administration for over 23 years, including the last five gubernatorial administrations. Jeff has served as a consulting economist to the Vermont Department of Economic Development in various capacities for more than 15 years.
Prior to his full-time tenure at EPR, Jeff served as Legislative Director and Economist for a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served in the Executive Brach of Vermont state government as an economist/policy analyst, as Research Director for a United States Senate campaign, and as Director of Research for a national education organization specializing in federal fiscal policy analysis. He has been the Vermont State Economic Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership (“NEEP”) for the past 22 years, and has served on the NEEP Board of Directors for the past 5 years. Jeff taught economics in the Graduate School at St. Michael’s College in Winooski, VT. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences and has written extensively on the EB-5 Program, economic forecasting, economic development, and fiscal policy. Jeff holds an M.S. in Agricultural Economics and a B.S. in Animal Sciences from the University of Vermont. He served on the Town of Essex Selectboard for more than 10 years, where he was the Vice Chair or Chair of the Selectboard for a total of 4 years.