Meet the Team

Paul Ruby

Paul Ruby became Director of Golden Lamp Regional Center in 2022 upon the retirement of its founders*. Mr. Ruby is well-known in the EB-5 world and has extensive experience on both the investor and developer sides of the process. As an immigration attorney, Mr. Ruby has filed hundreds of I-526 and I-829 petitions for investors in dozens of projects with a solid track record of petition approval at all stages. In addition, he has represented EB-5 project sponsors forming regional centers and developing job-creating EB-5 projects. He has a successful track record filing I-924 applications on behalf of several regional centers. In addition, Mr. Ruby brings a unique perspective to the project development and regional center formation side of the equation, having significant personal experience on the project development side himself, including in project structuring, EB-5 fundraising, obtaining non-EB-5 capital for EB-5 projects, and project oversight and monitoring.

By way of training and education, Paul Ruby earned a B.A. from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and a J.D. from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in 2007 and practices exclusively federal immigration law. Mr. Ruby is a member of AILA, the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association. In 2012, he served as the Editor of the legal and resources sections of “The EB-5 Book,” in which he also authored the section on how to file successful investor petitions. Mr. Ruby has spoken on EB-5 matters to audiences of attorneys, project developers, service providers, and investors across the country and around the world, including in China and Vietnam, and has also educated lawyers in Continuing Legal Education seminars on EB-5 visas, consular processing, and high-skilled immigration. His law office – Ruby Law Group LLC – is based in Nashville, Tennessee and handles only business- and investor immigration matters.