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EB5AN is a national leader in the EB-5 visa investment field, dedicated to serving both EB-5 project developers and EB-5 investors. Through our network of 10+ EB-5 regional centers operating in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, we provide turnkey EB-5 services to help you structure your own EB-5 project under an existing regional center, or find the ideal EB-5 visa project for your personal immigration and EB-5 immigrant investment needs.
EB5AN partners with best-in-class developers across asset classes to offer a full-service EB-5 solution to customers who are interested in obtaining comprehensive EB-5 project documentation, who want to rent an EB-5 regional center, or who are seeking EB-5 regional center sponsorship. Because we have successfully obtained USCIS approval on many EB-5 projects and EB-5 regional center applications, we have the expertise to guide project developers in the EB-5 documentation process for both projects and new regional center applications. Similarly, we have helped over 2, 300 foreign investors from more than 60 countries to become permanent U.S. residents through EB-5 immigrant investments.
EB5AN also provides a wealth of free EB-5 resources for developers and investors. We are best known for our free EB5AN National TEA Map, which allows users to quickly and easily assess whether their project sites would qualify as TEAs. Other free EB-5 tools and resources include our EB-5 Job Creation Calculator and EB-5 Project Risk Assessment Questionnaire.
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The EB5AN team has extensive experience in business strategy, investment evaluation, and securities, tax, and immigration law. With in-house service as a hallmark, we have partners and offices in the United States and abroad, including in India, Brazil, and China. To learn more about the latest developments in the EB-5 investment program, visit our EB-5 Insider blog.
If you are interested in structuring your own EB-5 project or investing in an existing EB-5 visa project, please contact EB5AN, and a member of our team will quickly reach out to you. You can also reach us directly at via phone, text, or WhatsApp at +1-561-386-5356 or by email.Given a choice, would you prefer to invest in own business over DirectPooled or a Regional CenterProject? Of course, you would say yes.Who wouldn’t want to invest the hard-earned money in their own business when the EB5 Investment funds should be “At-Risk” during the course of the EB5 Green Card process.
By the end of this article, you would have an idea about what is the difference between Direct and Regional Center EB5 Investments options.Let’s explore three types of EB5 Investment options:
Eb 5 Business Plans
I’m pretty sure a potential EB5 investor would have explored the possibility of investing the funds in their own business before deciding with a Direct Pooled or Regional Center Project.
Direct EB5 Investment is equivalent of starting your own business. It could be a restaurant franchise or any other business of your choice.
For the Direct EB5 Investment, I’m not entirely sure if you have to invest in a New Commercial Enterprise or an existing business! That’s something you have to consult an EB5 Attorney.
What Is A Regional Center?
For Direct Pooled EB5 Investment, the money is pooled from a group of EB5 Investors and invested in a New Commercial/Job-Creating Enterprise.
Under Direct Pooled EB5 Investment, you are investing the EB5 capital in a project and you wouldn’t have control of your money in most cases. And the project would be developed and operated by the Developer.
You wouldn’t have the control of the project nor required to deal with day to day operation of the business.Here’s a typical Direct Pooled Investment structure would look like.
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In this case, JCE and NCE (discussed later under Regional Center) are one and the same. The Project developer would have to hire an employee at least 800 employees to meet the job creation requirements.
In comparison to Direct EB5 Investment, where you are responsible as the business owner to create the required jobs, here’s there’s a Developer who does that work.
After Due Diligence, if the investor feels comfortable with this project, they would invest the money and wait for their Conditional Green Card and then file I-829 to remove the conditions.
Eb 5 Investment Amount
Regional Centers investment, just like Direct Pooled Investment is a hands-off approach. The major attraction here is how the required jobs are created.
The previous two EB5 Investment options, jobs have to be directly created to meet the job creation requirements. In other words, the business has to hire and employ people on a full-time basis for a long period of time.
As you can see, the last Blur Box in the above chart, Direct and Indirect Jobs can be counted to meet the job creation requirements. I will discuss the Economic model in detail in another article.
The Benefits Of Rural Eb 5 Projects
Now, let’s apply the New Hotel Construction under Regional Center Model and assume that out of 100 Million, 80 million qualifies for Job Creation requirements.
I have to bring in an EB5 Visa expert to go into details about the math involved in the above calculation process. I gave an example to provide a rough estimate to show the difference between EB5 Investment your business, Direct Pooled and Regional Center projects.
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Eb5 Business Plan
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Eb 5 Due Diligence: Types, Requirements, And Considerations
October 2015 Visa Bulletin had Major News. Department of State has introduced a New Cut Off Date. This dual cutoff datecomes with a ton of Immigration Benefits like the ability to file I-485 earlier than expected for Employment and Family based applicants who have approved I-140. You can read the announcement at EAD for I-140…
I hope to answer the following questions about EB2 to EB3 downgrade and Rapid forward movement from the October 2020 Visa Bulletin. How will Visa Numbers be allocated for EB4, EB5, EB1, EB2, and EB3? My Priority Date in 2009 – Should I downgrade from EB2 to EB3? My Priority Date in 2010 – Should…The upcoming year, 2022, will bring a paradigm shift in the economy and how we employ people. While these factors will profoundly affect the EB5 program, so will the sunset of the Regional Center Program and the landmark court case (download Behring Regional Center LLC v. Wolf, 20-cv-09263-JSC) that set aside the increase of investment amounts. EB5 business plans will be aligned with the new reality. What that means is that EB5 Direct Investment will be the watchword for 2022--and likely beyond. Now that TEAs (targeted employment areas) are determined as they were prior to 2019, that has also had an effect on the program. For a long time, we have created both regional center and direct investment immigration business plans so we are very familiar with direct investments.
We are focusing primarily on the direct investment plan, which can now be submitted with a TEA investment of $500, 000. These Matter of Ho-compliant plans reflect the latest regulatory requirements as well as the most recent (2021/2022) market and demographic information. As the pandemic slowly evolves into an endemic situation, we are continuing our post-COVID analyses in all documents. This is a part of our due diligent approach.
Eb 5 Direct Investment Visa Plan
Our investor-attractive, due diligent EB5 business plans have always been created according to USCIS guidelines, the most important of which is compliance with Matter of Ho requirements.
But there is now a new dimension to them that assures both the USCIS and the investor that a project is reasonable and justifiable in a post-COVID economy. Looking toward recovery and another evolution in EB5 requirements, we have created a new version of our EB5 business plan for
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