Do you need to wait until all I-829s are approved before you can uniformly repay the project? Is this a rule of immigration?

A: Xinqiao international immigration expert: No.

1. The Immigration Bureau does not require repayment time, but according to the requirements of the Immigration Law, the funds of EB-5 investors must still be in a "risk" state when I-829 is approved. Simply put, it is still invested in the project.

Therefore, as far as the investment funds of a specific investor are concerned, I-829 has not been approved, and of course it cannot be repaid.

2.EB-5 project agreements usually set a repayment period. If it is a creditor's right project, the loan term is generally 5 years. This five-year period is not stipulated by USCIS, but agreed by EB-5 industry from a certain angle. This is basically based on the need for I-526 approval 1 year or more, and then it takes half a year or a year to get a visa to land in the United States, and then it takes about two years to submit an I-829 application, that is, 4-5 years, so the loan period of debt-based projects, that is, the repayment period of investors, is usually 5 years.

But now that EB-5 visa has been scheduled, it is inconclusive whether the repayment period needs to be adjusted, waiting for USCIS's policy advice.

3. Generally speaking, when a typical EB-5 loan project (creditor's rights) reaches the five-year loan period, it can be repaid as long as one investor's I-829 has passed the examination and approval, and it is not necessary to wait for all investors in the project to pass the examination and approval of I-829. This has nothing to do with immigration regulations.