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VISA PROCESS

HISTORY OF EB-5 VISA

The EB-5 is an Employment-Based 5th Preference visa which was created by the Immigration Act of 1990. It provided for 10,000 immigrant visas per year to qualified individuals seeking permanent resident status on the basis of their investment in a new commercial enterprise. Due to disappointing results with this original immigrant investor program, in 1993, Congress enacted the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program, commonly referred to as the “Regional Center Program.” A Regional Center is defined as an economic unit which is involved with the promotion of economic growth, which includes improved regional productivity and job creation. 

REQUIREMENTS

Under Section 203(b)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 USC §1153(b)(5), 10,000 immigrant visas are available annually to qualified individuals seeking permanent resident status on the basis of their investment in a new commercial enterprise. 
All EB-5 investors must invest in a new commercial enterprise, which means any for-profit activity formed for the ongoing conduct of lawful business including, but not limited to:
  • A sole proprietorship
  • Partnership (whether limited or general)
  • Holding company
  • Joint venture
  • Corporation
  • Business trust or other entity, which may be publicly or privately owned
  • The Investor's investment in the new commercial enterprise must create at least 10 full time jobs for U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents and other immigrants lawfully authorized to be employed in the United States.
  • This new commercial enterprise can be located in a Regional Center. A Regional Center is an entity, organization or agency that has been approved as such by the USCIS. It seeks to promote economic growth and improved regional productivity. The Investor must demonstrat  that the qualifying investment is being made within an approved Regional Center.
  • The investment must create or save at least 10 full-time jobs for U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or other immigrants authorized to work in the United States. The ten workers cannot include the investor or the investor’s immediate family.
  • To qualify, a foreign investor must establish a new commercial enterprise in which he or she must normally invest at least $1-million. If the investment is in a rural or high-unemployment area, known as a Target Employment Area (“TEA”), only $500,000 is required.
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  • BENEFITS OF INVESTING IN A REGIONAL CENTER
  • No sponsor needed
  • No language requirement needed
  • No minimum education requirement
  • No direct management responsibilities required
  • Investor funds can be in the form of a loan or gift
  • Investment capital from any lawful source
  • There is no quota waiting list for the EB-5 program
  • Limited partnership with no business management experience requirement
  • Offers a more inactive form of investment for those not interested in day-to-day management or running of an active business
  • Job creation requirement satisfied by counting both direct and indirect jobs
  • 3,000 EB-5 Green Cards are set aside for qualifying immigrants who participate in an EB-5 Regional Center program
  • Investor not required to live in the place of investment; rather, he or she can live anywhere he/she wishes in the United States
WHO QUALIFIES FOR AN          EB-5 GREEN CARD?

Qualified EB-5 candidates must be able to invest either $1 million or $500,000 in a U.S. business, depending on the program selected. Ideal EB-5 prospects include but are not limited to:

  • Parents who seek a U.S. education for their children, but do not want to be actively involved in business management
  • F-1 student who wants to start a business
  • Entrepreneurs
  • CEO/Managers of a U.S. company who are not an L-1 transferee
  • Doctors who have not passed USMLE 1, 2 and 3
  • Foreign national investors in a U.S. business who do not want to be active in the business
  • Individual owners of a non-U.S. business who want to set up a U.S. business, but who cannot use an L-1 because owner intends to close the foreign business
INVEST AMERICA EB-5 LLC REGIONAL CENTER DOES NOT OFFER LEGAL ADVICE OR SERVICES

The Invest America EB-5 LLC Regional Center, its employees and members, do not function as your attorneys or legal counsel and do not attempt to interpret immigration law for you and do not provide or offer legal advice or legal services to you. A potential investor should seek legal counsel from a private immigration attorney of their choice. Invest America EB-5 LLC is a business enterprise providing certain introductions and services to prospective foreign investors, and is not authorized to provide investment advice. Invest America EB-5 LLC shall not be responsible for the success or failure of any investment offered by the Invest America EB-5 LLC Regional Center or any consequential profit or loss or expense that may arise directly or indirectly from such investment, whether or not such investment is used for immigration purposes, or for compliance with United States Citizenship and Immigration Service requirements