The visa program leaving hopeful immigrants empty-handed

Name: The visa program leaving hopeful immigrants empty-handed
Uploaded: 2016-11-18T00:10:51Z
Duration: P568S
Description: After leaving their home in Pakistan and living in Dubai, Noreen and Shehryar Iqbal aspired to move to the U.S. through the EB-5 Visa program, which grants green cards and eventually U.S. citizenship for large, job-creating investments. Now their life savings are gone and there are no green cards in sight. What happened? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

Clip: 11/17/2016 | 9m 28s

After leaving their home in Pakistan and living in Dubai, Noreen and Shehryar Iqbal aspired to move to the U.S. through the EB-5 Visa program, which grants green cards and eventually U.S. citizenship for large, job-creating investments. Now their life savings are gone and there are no green cards in sight. What happened? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

Aired: 11/17/16

Rating: NR

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