What are the procedures for immigrating to America?

American immigrants: application procedures for investment immigrants

Applicants are required to fill in the I-526 form and submit an application to the immigration bureau of the main industrial and agricultural areas of the investment enterprise together with various certificates.

If the application is approved, investors, their spouses and unmarried children under 2 1 year-old will first obtain conditional legal residence status. Within 90 days of obtaining this status two years ago, you should further fill in the I-826 form, check all the certificates, and apply to the immigration office for cancellation conditions. If the Immigration Bureau determines that the investor does meet the requirements, the investor and his family members can formally become legal permanent residents. Because investment immigrants only require that the enterprises they invest in must exist for at least two years, it does not affect their permanent residency if the applicant dismisses employees for selling their enterprises after obtaining a formal green card. There are two major disadvantages for such people to apply for immigration:

First, after investing in the United States and applying for permanent residence status, investors' income in other parts of the world must also be taxed in the United States, which many people are unwilling to accept.

Second, investors can't apply for immigrant visas before investing, but only after actually investing. Even if the Immigration Bureau approves its application for investment immigration soon, it is only a conditional temporary green card. Two years later, the Immigration Bureau will review its investment projects, and those who pass can turn their temporary green cards into permanent green cards. If investors fail to invest in these two years, they will not only lose a lot of money, but also lose their permanent residence status.

So for most people who are interested in investing in the United States, it may be more appropriate to choose other ways. If you set up a branch in the United States, you must first obtain a non-immigrant visa (L-I visa) and then apply for immigration as an executive of a multinational company. This may be safer and more reliable, and the investment is much less.

Since 1990 the United States opened its doors to investment immigrants, most of the immigrants came from Asia, of which 8 1% came from Asia, 9% came from Europe, 5% came from South America, and the rest came from other parts of the world. Although the original category of investment immigrants should be the influx of Hong Kong funds, the number of investment immigrants in Asia is mostly "investors" in China.

According to the EB-5 report on investment immigrants submitted by the Immigration Bureau, in the past nine years, 1 10,000 investment immigrants were not as popular as expected, but all the places were left. However, after 1996, the number of American employees was slightly relaxed, and American private enterprises strengthened their efforts to attract investment partners abroad, investment immigrants gradually increased.

In order to make investment immigrants more attractive to investors, since 1996, the Immigration Bureau has relaxed many conditions, such as the way of investment, the calculation method of hiring workers, etc., so that investors can invest through the existing investment funds in the United States and reduce the actual amount of investment by borrowing. However, the Immigration Bureau found that after the good door was opened, there were also many disadvantages. Investors invest in investment funds, and there is no need to start new business in the United States. The employees they "hired" are also existing employees, and the purpose of creating jobs by investing in immigrants has not been achieved at all. However, the current situation has changed, and investment immigrants have begun to climb upwards.

The United States 1990 established investment immigrants according to Canada, because Canadian investment immigrants brought Canadian capital and business talents. At that time, American investment immigrants were opposed to Hong Kong's capital and business talents, hoping that the return of 1997 would set a channel for Hong Kong's capital to flow to the United States. However, investment immigrants have developed to this day, and Chinese mainland's investment is the largest.

Investment immigrants provide foreign investors with US residency and business opportunities for "existing or newly established enterprises" in exchange for investors' "investment and actual business investment", amounting to US$ 6,543,800 or RMB 500,000, which will create at least 65,438+00 full-time job opportunities in rural areas or depressed areas with high unemployment rate. The EB-5 project has 10000 places every year, and 3000 places are reserved for investors in rural areas or depressed areas with high unemployment rate.

Investment immigrants are generally divided into three categories.

A. Investment in "new enterprises", including innovative enterprises or restructuring old enterprises.

B. "Expanding existing enterprises" can increase assets or employees by more than 40% through investment or capital injection, that is, the value of assets or employees after capital injection will be 1.4 times of the original scale.

C for the "problem enterprise" investment, the enterprise lost one-fifth of its asset value 12 to 14 months before the capital injection.

The difference between American investment immigrants and Canadian investment immigrants is that investment cannot be completely ignored, so investment immigrants are investments, which are "real businesses and investments", but the Immigration Bureau allows investors to prove that the enterprises they invest in "have invested a considerable amount of time" and can meet the requirements.

Investors don't need to have any business experience or education. The only condition is "sufficient funds". Of course, the source of funds should be legally obtained, so the source of funds for investors can be salary, bonus, inheritance, investment income, sale of assets or "loan". The loan must be well designed, otherwise it may not pass the immigration picky.

Necessary documents for application, including application form, personal financial information, business plan, description of investment field and other supporting documents. The success rate of investment immigration is about 50%.

Can the permanent residence status of "investment" immigrants be obtained through "fund-raising"

The immigration law clearly allows multiple investors to raise funds, which can satisfy the way for all fund-raisers to apply for investment immigration. The only requirement is that every fundraiser meets the requirements of "individual" as an investment immigrant.

Qualified investors can not only invest as immigrants, but also their spouses and children under 2 1 year old. Investor immigrants first obtain a "temporary" green card for permanent residents who have been documented for two years, and their rights and interests are completely similar to those of permanent residents in the United States, except that they need to be replaced by a formal green card before the expiration of two years, and the procedures are the same as those for married spouse immigrants.

It's almost two years, and to change to permanent resident status, investors have to prove that the investment situation is similar to that of immigrants who applied for investment at the beginning. For example, ten American employees are paid normally. As long as it is proved that the investment projects are still true, the Immigration Bureau will allow them to change their normal green cards.

Another comparison with Canadian investment immigrants is that applicants of American investment immigrants should take the United States as their "main" residence, such as opening a personal bank account, driving license, paying local and federal taxes, buying a house or renting a house, and investors should live in the United States for at least a period of time every year, such as three or four weeks or several months, so as to avoid the Immigration Bureau suspecting that investors "structurally give up their right of residence in the United States. Canadian investment immigrants do not need to live in Canada for a specific period of time. Investment immigrants must stay abroad for more than one year, and it is best to apply for a "Re-entry Permit" from the Immigration Bureau, so that they can stay abroad for more than one year with peace of mind.

The effect of investment immigration in Chinese mainland is not as good as that in Canada. In addition to the large amount of investment, restrictions on hiring American employees, and passive investment by "investment funds", the third type of outstanding business talents in the United States is relatively simple, but in's investment immigrants make full use of American investment immigration laws and regulations and invest heavily in the United States.