The EB-5 investor program offers permanent residency to foreign nationals and their families so they can live, work, and study in the United States.
We’re here to help investors and businesses navigate the EB-5 process to achieve immigration and financial success.
Review EB-5 projects that meet our due diligence standards.
Faster U.S. Green Cards without a sponsor, employer or special abilities.
Bring your spouse and unmarried children under 21 years old to the U.S.
Some projects schedule your repayment in just 2.5 years.
Opportunity to earn significant profits on your investment capital.
Live, work, study, and travel anywhere in the US.
Lower tuition fees are available for permanent residents.
Minimum of $800,000 in a rural or high-unemployment area or infrastructure project. Otherwise, the minimum is $1,050,000.
The investor must prove a lawful source of funds. Potential sources include earnings, a loan, an inheritance, a gift, or home sale.
Capital must fund a for-profit business, be “at risk” for a chance of loss or gain, create 10 full-time jobs, and be sustained two years.
An EB-5 lawyer documents your source of funds and prepares your application.
Invest a minimum of $800,000 in a qualified EB-5 project.
Your lawyer files Form I-526E to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Applicants outside of the U.S. go through consular processing. U.S. applicants adjust status.
Following I-526E approval, you and your family are eligible for 2-year Green Cards.
Receive a 2-year Green Card. File Form I-829 to complete the permanent residency process.
The EB-5 timeline involves two key considerations:
Processing times depend on the type of investment. The fastest category is often processed in 6 months or less.
Investors from most countries will have a Green Card available immediately upon application approval. Backlogged countries such as China, India and Vietnam can receive immediate visas by choosing a rural or high-unemployment project.
Use our I-526E Processing Estimator to learn how long your application might take to be processed.
Go to ToolAfter more than a decade of helping EB-5 investors we have worked with dozens of lawyers and reviewed over 200 investments.
The EB-5 Green Card By investment program offers a minimum of 10,000 visas per year, including family members.
Each year 32% of visas are reserved: rural 20%, high-unemployment 10%, and infrastructure 2%.
Set-aside visas are immediately available for investors from any country. Rural investments have priority processing.