When the Athia family arrived in Washington, D.C., during the 1990s, they gained entrée to the local motel industry through connections from their native India. What began for them as front desk check-ins and the cleaning of motel rooms in suburban Maryland has grown into Baywood Hotels, a successful family-run hospitality development firm that has completed more than 70 hotels nationwide.
Marriott Marquis Washington, DC Now Accepting Applications for Hundreds of Job Opportunities
The Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC, the city’s soon-to-be-largest hotel, has officially started accepting applications for hourly employees as of Thursday, February 20. Opening on May 1, over the course of the year Marriott Marquis Washington, DC will provide hundreds of job opportunities, in housekeeping and front office, culinary, restaurants, engineering, loss prevention, and more.
Marriott Marquis: A Look Behind the Scenes of D.C.’s Convention Center Hotel
A Look Behind the Scenes of D.C.’s Convention Center Hotel
Foreigners Finance Real Estate Development to Gain U.S. Citizenship
People seeking U.S. citizenship are financing Bay Area real estate projects using an obscure federal immigration program that grants green cards in exchange for capital investment. San Jose-based Barry Swenson Builder broke ground May 15 on an $80 million two-hotel complex east of the Mineta San Jose International Airport for which 40 percent of the cost is to come from equity raised from foreign investors.
Foreign Citizens Making Big Investments in U.S. in Exchange for Green Cards
Foreign citizens are investing in a visa program that allows them to gain permanent residence by investing $500,000 in a U.S. project that creates at least 10 jobs. Judith and Rene Dekker work on their dairy farm in Ubly, Mich. Originally from the Netherlands, the family moved to Michigan in 2000.