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EB-5 Immigration Casino Special Program

What is EB-5 Green Card Program?

The EB-5 green card, Immigrant Investor Program (‘’EB-5’’) was created in 1990 by Congress and is administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (‘’USCIS’’). The EB-5 visa program permits foreign nationals to earn a EB-5 green card (permanent resident visa) for themselves, spouse and any unmarried children they have under the age of 21, via investing at least $800,000 in a new U.S business that creates or preserves a minimum of 10 new U.S. jobs. Additionally, in 1992, Congress created the Regional Center Program which allows individuals to invest in a new U.S business associated with a USCIS approved Regional Center.

Regulations permit the State Department to issue 10,000 EB-5 visas each year in this category. Investors that are adjudicated approved I-526 petitions by the USCIS will receive a 2 year conditional EB-5 green card, which subsequently requires them to file a form I-829 petition within 21 – 24 months of I-526 approval. The I-829 petition must demonstrate the investor sustained the $800,000* in an at risk investment for a two year period, and the U.S. investment created the minimum 10 required jobs. Once the investors I-829 petition is approved, the investor becomes eligible for a return of capital subject to the success of the EB-5 Project. (*learn more about the recent changes on the EB-5 Program here.)

About PV Special EB-5 Green Card Investor Program

For over two decades, PV Brands Partner specializing in Immigration has been helping clients and investors achieving their American dreams. Under the EB-5 program investors must invest in a new commercial enterprise… so what is considered a commercial enterprise? Commercial enterprise means any for-profit activity formed for the ongoing conduct of lawful business including, but not limited to:

A sole proprietorship
Partnership (whether limited or general)
Holding company
Joint venture
Corporation
Business trust or other entity, which may be publicly or privately owned

This definition includes a commercial enterprise consisting of a holding company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, provided that each such subsidiary is engaged in a for-profit activity formed for the ongoing conduct of a lawful business.

Note: This definition does not include non-commercial activity such as owning and operating a personal residence.

JOB CREATION REQUIREMENTS

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’s admission to the United States as a Conditional Permanent Resident.
Create or preserve either direct or indirect jobs:

Direct jobs are actual identifiable jobs for qualified employees located within the commercial enterprise into which the EB-5 investor has directly invested his or her capital.
Indirect jobs 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.