What conditions do you need to invest in immigration to the United States?

Investment immigration (fifth priority, EB-5 for short) is the fastest and most convenient way. In order to increase domestic employment opportunities and stimulate economic development, the United States stipulates that people who invest more than a certain standard in the United States can apply for immigration to the United States. According to different investment methods, different regions have different regulations, as shown in the following figure.

Set up a new company

Regional Center: The investment amount is divided into 0.9 million and 6.5438+0.8 million USD.

General area (traditional type): the investment amount is divided into 900,000 and 6,543,800 USD+8,000 USD.

Invest in existing companies

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2.1990165438+129 October shall meet one of the following conditions:

(1) Reorganization after buying;

(2) increase the company's net worth or the proportion of employees by more than 40%;

(3) It is still necessary to meet the investment of more than 900,000 dollars in the regional center and more than 6,543,800 dollars+8,000 dollars in the general area.

In addition to investing more than a certain amount, investment projects must be able to directly or indirectly increase or retain more than ten job opportunities. Retaining more than 10 jobs refers to reserving more than 10 jobs for American employees of the enterprise after investing in the problem enterprise (that is, the enterprise that lost more than two years before investment and accumulated losses reached more than 20% of the net value before loss). Eligible people can get a temporary green card for a limited period and live in the United States temporarily. After two years, the Immigration Bureau will check whether their original investment is true and whether it complies with relevant regulations. If they pass the examination, they can convert their temporary green cards into ordinary formal green cards and obtain permanent residency.

With the increasing number of immigrants to the United States year by year, coupled with the endless investment disputes in investment immigration projects, the US Immigration Service may take a more rigorous review of the approval of EB-5 investment immigration projects. This year, many investment projects did not meet the requirements, which made it impossible for investors to convert temporary green cards into formal green cards, resulting in children studying in the United States being forced to drop out of school. Therefore, the choice of immigrant investment projects will affect whether you can successfully obtain American identity, and you should not be careless.

Comparison between investment immigration and other ways

Except for professionals with specific skills, most people will immigrate to the United States as investment immigrants or relatives. In contrast, adopting investment to immigrate to the United States has advantages and disadvantages. These advantages can be summarized as follows:

First, the requirements for applicants are relatively loose: generally speaking, if you can prove that the source of funds is legal, you will not refuse. In particular, the investment application of the regional investment immigration center recognized by the US government can be easily approved as long as the source of funds is recognized as legal.

Second, it is more convenient to enter the United States: during the period of holding a temporary green card or a formal green card, it is regarded as an American resident when entering the United States, so the immigration inspector will not doubt it by the standards of tourists.

Third, the whole family can immigrate: investors and their spouses or unmarried children under 2 1 year old can immigrate at the same time.

Investment immigration has the above advantages, but those who want to immigrate in this way need to consider the following conditions:

1. The required funds are huge: generally, it can be divided into two categories: the first category, the investment in general areas (namely traditional EB-5) is 6.5438+0.8 million US dollars, and the high unemployment area (TEA) is 900,000 US dollars; Two, the US government recognized the high unemployment area investment immigration center investment of $900,000. However, if the region changes in the future, if new investors want to invest in the same regional center again, the investment threshold may be adjusted to $6,543,800+0.8 million. The threshold of future investment amount will be adjusted every five years according to inflation, and the detailed amount is mainly based on the actual published laws and regulations.

Second, the additional conditions that investment immigrants must meet: directly or indirectly create at least ten job opportunities in the United States.

Third, the risk of possible investment losses: the risk of investing in the United States is borne by the investors themselves.

Four, investment immigrants to obtain a temporary green card for two years, must apply to the Immigration Bureau three months before the expiration (the second1month after obtaining a temporary green card), and then get a permanent green card.

Because EB-5 seems to be the most convenient way to apply for immigration to the United States, and investing in the immigration project center is the most time-saving and labor-saving, in addition to the investment fund of 900,000 US dollars, the whole immigrant may also need other expenses such as project release fee, fund management fee, application fee, lawyer's fee, real estate appraisal fee and intermediary service fee of about 6,543,800 US dollars, and the overall expenditure will reach 6,543,800 US dollars. According to the information released by the US Immigration Bureau in official website, it was approved by the General Administration of Immigration as of 20 19, 165438+ 10/4? 8 1 1? There are various immigration projects in a regional center. How can immigrants avoid investment risks in order to avoid not getting a green card and losing investment funds? It can be evaluated from the following four aspects:

1.EB-5 Investors should carefully screen the regional centers for investment immigrants and confirm the background of the professional management team, including the credit record of the person in charge of the company, the credit information of the person in charge of the project, the company's asset research (whether there is any inflated asset market value), the company's background investigation and criminal record, and confirm whether there are any successful cases of EB-5 project.

Second, investors should understand the basic legal requirements of EB-5 in the United States, and don't blindly listen to the propaganda data of regional centers and immigration agencies. If you claim that you have obtained a so-called franchise agreement with a well-known hotel management company, or obtained the approval and permission of the project construction, you must get to the bottom of it and understand the authenticity of the document; There are so-called "government guarantees", "government support" and "government participation", which are usually very unlikely.

3. Go directly to the regional center announced by the US Immigration Bureau in official website to confirm whether the immigration project exists.

4. If necessary, entrust an experienced American lawyer to conduct due diligence.

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