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What is the EB-5 Program?

 

The EB-5 Program is an Immigrant Investor Program administrated by USCIS, which was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Under a pilot immigration program first enacted in 1992 and regularly reauthorized since, certain EB-5 visas also are set aside for investors in Regional Centers designated by USCIS based on proposals for promoting economic growth.

What is an EB-5 Regional Center?

 

A EB-5 Regional Center is an organization designated by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that sponsors capital investment projects for investment by EB-5 investors. The major advantage for regional center designation is that the regional center can take advantage of indirect job creation. Regional centers help EB-5 investors and project developers because they lessen the difficulty of meeting qualifying job creation requirements under the EB-5 program rules.

There are two methods for foreign investors to obtain an EB-5 Visa to immigrate to the U.S.

Direct investment in a new or existing commercial enterprise that creates jobs, which manages by investors.

 

 

Investment in a project initiated by a USCIS approved  Regional Center that actively manages

investor funds and creates jobs.

The main advantage for a Regional Center is that USCIS will allow the project to count indirect and induced jobs in addition to direct jobs towards the job creation requirement.  

 

In addition, investors in a new commercial enterprise affiliated with an RC do not need

to be involved in the day-to-day management of the business nor commit to a certain amount of time directing the business.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the federal agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. The USCIS operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and provides the following services:

 

  • Citizenship (Includes the Related Naturalization Process)

  • Immigration of Family Members

  • Working in the U.S.

  • Verifying an Individual’s Legal Right to Work in the United States (E-Verify)

  • Humanitarian Programs

  • Adoptions

  • Civic Integration

  • Genealogy

 

We focuse on commercial real estate and traveler accommodation in the following areas:

 

NYC — New York, Bronx, Richmond, Kings, Queens, Westchester, Rockland

 

Upstate New York — Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster

 

Long Island — Nassau, Suffolk

 

Connecticut — Litchfield, New Haven, Fairfield

 

New Jersey — Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Union

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