America prices its green card in jobs: invest 800,000 dollars in a qualifying project, create ten American jobs, and permanent residency follows for you, your spouse and your unmarried children under 21. The reformed EB-5 programme runs under integrity rules that reward careful project selection and clean source of funds files, with rural projects enjoying priority processing. Here is how serious families do it.
The reduced threshold for rural, high unemployment and infrastructure projects.
The requirement that turns capital into green cards.
Investor, spouse and unmarried children under 21 share one investment.
The largest economy on earth, the deepest capital markets, the universities the world queues for and a green card that never asks how you earned your living once you hold it. America remains where global families send children to study and capital to compound, and the EB-5 route is the straightest lawful line to belonging there.
Green card holders are taxed on worldwide income, which is the honest price of America and the reason pre immigration tax planning matters enormously; we arrange it for every family before landing. In exchange: in state university tuition, fifty states of lifestyle arbitrage from Miami to Montana, and an economy that rewards initiative like no other.
The EB-5 suits families buying education and permanence, founders who want to operate in the American market without employer sponsorship, and investors who understand that this is an at risk investment with an immigration outcome, not a bank deposit with a flag. Treaty investors with smaller budgets often start with the E-2 visa, and we route each family honestly.
Our due diligence reads EB-5 projects the way lenders do: capital stack, job cushion, developer history and exit. Families invest once; we make sure it is in the right room.
EB-5 grants conditional permanent residency to the investor, spouse and unmarried children under 21, converting to the unconditional green card once the jobs are proven. Green card holders live, work and study anywhere in the United States, and the family keeps its status even if plans change. The programme runs under the Reform and Integrity Act, with regional center projects independently audited and investor protections written into law.
The qualifying investment is 800,000 dollars in a Targeted Employment Area, rural or high unemployment, or a qualifying infrastructure project, and 1,050,000 dollars elsewhere. The capital must be lawfully sourced, documented to forensic standard, and genuinely at risk, and each investment must create ten full time American jobs. Most families invest through regional center projects, where economists count direct and indirect employment.
The sequence runs: project due diligence and source of funds preparation; the I-526E petition; then either consular processing abroad or, for families already in the US on valid status, concurrent adjustment with early work and travel permission, one of the reformed programme’s quiet gifts. Conditional residency follows approval, and the I-829 petition removes conditions once the jobs are evidenced. Rural projects enjoy priority processing, and set aside visa categories keep queues moving for well chosen files.
Investment: 800,000 dollars in TEA and infrastructure projects, 1,050,000 elsewhere. Jobs: ten per investor. Timelines: petition processing runs in the multi year range, with rural priority files moving fastest; we quote live processing data rather than brochure promises. Policy moves, from set aside quotas to visa issuance rules for particular nationalities, shift under each administration, and we confirm the live position before every filing.
The project decides the outcome: capital stack, developer track record, job cushion and exit terms deserve institutional scrutiny, and we provide exactly that before any subscription. Source of funds is the second battlefield, and gifts, loans and business proceeds each have their own evidentiary craft. Families already in the US should weigh concurrent filing seriously, and every family should plan American taxation before the green card, not after. Grandfathering and quota windows in the programme’s legislative calendar reward early filers, which is why we watch that calendar daily.
The project decides the outcome, and the map decides the project. From urban towers to rural priority developments, we read every offering like the lender it needs.
City centre towers and mixed use developments at the 1,050,000 dollar tier, with the deepest developer track records to examine.
Assess MeRural TEA projects pair the 800,000 dollar threshold with priority processing and set aside visas, the reformed programme’s fastest lane.
Am I Eligible?Florida, Texas and the coasts host high unemployment TEA projects where the reduced threshold meets big market demand.
Contact UsFamilies already in the US on valid status can often file adjustment alongside the petition and receive work and travel permission early. Timing that correctly is worth years.
Green card holders may apply for citizenship after five years of permanent residency, with physical presence, good moral character and civics and English tests. The conditional EB-5 years count in full, so the citizenship clock starts the day the first green card is issued.
The American passport carries the world’s most extensive consular network, visa free travel across most of the globe and, the right, subject to conditions, to pass citizenship to children born abroad. It also carries lifelong worldwide taxation, which deserves clear eyed planning before you swear the oath.
Most EB-5 families treat the green card itself as the prize: education, permanence and optionality. Citizenship is there at year five for those who want to complete the journey, and we plan both horizons, tax included, from the outset.
Passports, birth and marriage certificates for the family, consistent across every petition, with prior US immigration history disclosed completely.
The forensic money trail: salary records, business sales, dividends, gifts or loans, each documented to its origin with tax returns and bank statements that reconcile. This is where EB-5 cases are won.
Subscription documents, escrow confirmation and the project’s offering materials, business plan and economic job study, assembled to petition standard.
The investor petition uniting personal, financial and project evidence, filed with the fees and, where available, the priority categories that fit your case.
Medicals, police certificates and either the consular interview abroad or concurrent adjustment filings in the US, with work and travel permissions sought early where eligible.
Prefer a conversation before anything formal? Our consultants answer EB-5 questions with complete candour, including which projects we would decline.
Nearly three decades guiding successful emigrations worldwide.
Former Emigration Officials with deep, current knowledge of immigration law.
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800,000 dollars in a Targeted Employment Area or qualifying infrastructure project; 1,050,000 dollars elsewhere. Amounts adjust periodically under the statute, and we confirm the live figure before every subscription.
No, and lawfully it cannot be: EB-5 capital must be at risk. What diligence buys is a project whose risks are commercial rather than structural, which is precisely what our review measures.
Petition processing runs on multi year government timelines, with rural priority cases moving fastest. Families already in the US on valid status can often file for adjustment concurrently and receive work and travel permission long before final approval.
The investor, spouse and unmarried children under 21, all receiving green cards from a single qualifying investment.
A rural area or one of high unemployment where the reduced 800,000 dollar threshold applies. Rural TEA projects also enjoy priority processing and set aside visa numbers.
After the required investment period, on the project’s commercial terms. Exit terms differ enormously between projects, which is why we read them before you sign, not after.
Yes, from day one of residency. Pre immigration tax planning is not optional at this level, and we arrange it as part of every engagement.
Five years after the first green card, conditional years included, with residence, character and civics requirements.
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