EB5 Investor Visa USA Requirements
EB-5 is one of the Immigrant Investor Visas for USA, created in 1990, that enables foreign investors to obtain a U.S. Visa by investing in a business that will benefit the U.S. economy and create jobs. If you are a foreign investor and satisfy the initial requirements, you can apply to participate in the EB-5 Visa program.
Today we discuss about what are the main eb5 investor visa usa requirements to apply?
There are three main requirements:
1. You need to invest, And that's either one million dollars or half a million dollars in the United States.
2. Your investment needs to create ten jobs in the United States.
3. Money that you invest for the EB5, Needs to come from a lawful source.
Ok, so let's go back to the investment part, half a million dollars and one million dollars are a big difference. Sure, of course. So how much is that we have to invest? So that's going to depend on the geographic area in the United States that you choose to invest in. Let me explain, the law, the EB5 law basically says this look, the unemployment level in the United States is relatively low, very low, And if you invest in an area where the government doesn't feel like it needs more jobs Because the unemployment rate is already very low Then you need to invest one million dollars.
EB-5 Latest Update: On July 20, 2020 USCIS issued another EB-5 Redeployment Policy Update.
On the other hand, if you choose to invest in an area where the unemployment rate is higher, then the government says, In that case, you're creating jobs where I need help. Traditionally it works something like this: There's over a thousand of these funds right, so I’m just going to give you a general idea of how they work. So, a regional center will say look, I am developing an apartment complex in some city in the United States or hotel or something, they have a project. And they'll say, invest your money in my project, I'm going to manage your money, I'm going to put your money to work, And that money is going to create jobs in the building of my hotel Or in the operations of the hotel, or the apartment complex.
And those jobs are going to be credited to you that way you can tell the government that you've invested and created the required number of jobs. How do we find these investment funds? Very simple. You need to check the list of all the regional centers that are available out there and pick the one that's best for you.
Ok, so let's go back to the beginning, You have to invest, You have to create ten jobs, What's the next requirement? The third main requirement is that the money you're investing for the EB5 Visa comes from a lawful source. So we need to be able to prove that.
We'll give an example, Suppose you earned your money through being employed at a company And you have a nice salary and you've been saving your money, and now you have a million dollars in the bank. So we would need to prove that you've had this job And that you've been saving your money, And that money is accumulated to a million dollars. And now you would then transfer that money into the EB5 regional center, And we would document how you made it, And that you transferred it to the EB5 and that would do the trick.
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