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The EB-5 program is specially designed to allow individuals who invest either $1 million in a new commercial enterprise or $500, 000 in an area of high unemployment or through an approved Regional Center to qualify for a green card for themselves and their families.

EB-5: Investing Your Capital

Posted on January 25, 2012 | Author: Ann
Immigration Law Category: Entrepreneurs and Business Start-ups, Investors/EB-5

As an EB-5 investor with the required capital,  how must you invest it? Invest means to contribute capital, as that term was defined in an earlier blog. But a contribution of capital in exchange for a note, bond, or any other debt arrangement between the new commercial enterprise and the immigrant investor does NOT constitute… read more

EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program: Key Elements

Posted on January 22, 2012 | Author: Ann
Immigration Law Category: Investors/EB-5

The EB-5 Program is based on three main elements: The immigrant’s investment of capital In a new commercial enterprise That creates jobs. In a series of blogs we will lay out what each of these three elements means for both the original EB-5 program (investment of $1 million) and the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program such… read more

EB-5 investor Program: Favorable Climate

Posted on January 12, 2012 | Author: Ann
Immigration Law Category: Immigration Policy and Legislative Initiatives, Investors/EB-5

USCIS re-emphasizes thoughtful and careful adjudication of applications to further the program’s purpose to promote the immigration of people who can help create jobs for U.S. workers through their investment of capital into the U.S. economy In this environment of job scarcity, USCIS has promised to focus its resources on investment/entrepreneurial visas to beef up… read more