Green Card through EB-5

http://faq.visapro.com/EB5-Green-Card-FAQ3.asp

http://www.eb5greencard.com/eb5visa/eb5-investment-requirements.php

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1. What is EB-5 Investor Green Card? Permanent resident status based on EB-5 eligibility is available to investors, either alone or coming with their spouse and unmarried children. Eligible foreign nationals are those who have invested, or are actively in the process of investing, the required amount of capital into a new commercial enterprise that they have established. They must further demonstrate that this investment will benefit the U.S. economy and create the requisite number of full-time jobs for qualified persons within the U.S. 2. Who is eligible for EB-5 Investor Green Card? You may be eligible for EB-5 immigrant visa:   If you establish a new commercial enterprise by: •    Creating an original business •    Purchasing an existing business and simultaneously or subsequently restructuring or reorganizing the business such that a new commercial enterprise results; or •    Expanding an existing business by 140 per cent of the pre-investment number of jobs or net worth, or retaining all existing jobs in a troubled business that has lost 20 per cent of its net worth over the past 12 to 24 months; and   If you have invested, or are actively in the process of investing, in a new commercial enterprise: •    At least $1,000,000, or •    At least $500,000 where the investment is being made in a ‘targeted employment area,’ which is an area that has experienced unemployment of at least 150 per cent of the national average rate or a rural area as designated by OMB; and   If your engagement in a new commercial enterprise will benefit the U.S. economy to: •    Create full-time employment for not fewer than ten qualified individuals; or Maintain the number of existing employees at no less than the pre-investment level for a period of at least two years, where the capital investment is being made in a ‘troubled business’, which is a business that has been in existence for at least two years and that has lost 20 per cent of its net worth over the past 12 to 24 months. Targeted Employment Area (TEA) A Targeted Employment Area is defined by law as “a rural area or an area that has experienced high unemployment of at least 150 percent of the national average.” 'Rural Area' - means any area not within either a metropolitan statistical area (as designated by the Office of Management and Budget) or the outer boundary of any city or town having a population of 20,000 or more. A Targeted Employment Area (TEA) for EB-5 Visa purpose allows $500,000 USD investment rather than the regular $1 Million USD. The USCIS Regional Center designation allows the requisite job-creation to be indirect and induced, as well as direct. When you have a Targeted Employment Area within a Regional Center you get a EB-5 project that requires $500,000 USD and allows job-creation to take place through directly and indirectly, but sometimes all indirectly.