{"id":80,"date":"2014-10-21T18:49:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2014-10-23T03:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T03:21:33","slug":"intro-to-regional-centers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/eb-5-project\/intro-to-regional-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to EB-5 Regional Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Immigrant Investor Program, also known as \u201cEB-5,\u201d 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 (the latest reauthorization was in 2012), certain EB-5 visas also are set aside for investors in Regional Centers designated by USCIS based on proposals for promoting economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>All EB-5 investors must invest in a <strong>new commercial enterprise<\/strong>, which is a commercial enterprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Established after Nov. 29, 1990, or<\/li>\n<li>Established on or before Nov. 29, 1990, that is:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Purchased and the existing business is restructured or reorganized in such a way that a new commercial enterprise results, or<br \/>\n2.\u00a0Expanded through the investment so that a 40-percent increase in the net worth or number of employees occurs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Commercial enterprise<\/strong> means any for-profit activity formed for the ongoing conduct of lawful business including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sole proprietorship<\/li>\n<li>Partnership (whether limited or general)<\/li>\n<li>Holding company<\/li>\n<li>Joint venture<\/li>\n<li>Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Business trust or other entity, which may be publicly or privately owned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Job Creation Requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years (or under certain circumstances, within a reasonable time after the two-year period) of the immigrant investor\u2019s admission to the United States as a Conditional Permanent Resident.<\/li>\n<li>Create or preserve<strong> indirect jobs<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indirect jobs<\/strong> are those jobs shown to have been created collaterally or as a result of capital invested in a commercial enterprise affiliated with a regional center by an EB-5 investor. A foreign investor may only use the indirect job calculation if affiliated with a regional center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Capital Investment Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>General. The minimum qualifying investment in the United States is $1 million.<\/li>\n<li>Targeted Employment Area (High Unemployment or Rural Area). The minimum qualifying investment either within a high-unemployment area or rural area in the United States is $500,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immigrant Investor Program, also known as \u201cEB-5,\u201d 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/eb-5-project\/intro-to-regional-centers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/98"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leyelaw.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}