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About EB-5

The U.S. immigrant investor program is called an EB-5 visa, also known as the Employment Based 5th Preference Visa. An EB-5 visa is a permanent U.S. visa based upon an immigrant investment that creates American employment, specifically ten American jobs per investment. Among other requirements, the requisite investment capital is $1 Million USD, and in some targeted economic areas, is reduced to $500,000 USD.

EB-5 Investments are broken into two categories: a direct investment into a business, or an investment into a federally approved Regional Center. A Regional Center is a designation granted to an entity that has completed an application process with the USCIS. A Regional Center has greater leeway in showing that it creates ten new American jobs for its collective investors. Regional Centers are allowed to pool investor funds and invest them on behalf of the foreign national investors in their entity. The Regional Center may use direct, indirect and induced jobs to show employment creation and they may use “reasonable methodologies” to prove the same. The regional center investments under EB-5 represent well of 90% of those approved.

Qualified EB-5 investors will initially receive a conditional visa for themselves and their family, which will be made permanent after: two years of U.S. residency have passed, the original investment requirements have been met and maintained, and American jobs have been produced.