Who can describe the changes of American immigration policy in recent twenty years?

As the world's largest power, the population composition of the United States is basically inseparable from immigration, from the founding of the United States to the present. In the past two decades, the American government has also made some changes to investment immigration. Investors who immigrate to the United States can learn about the number of people and projects approved by the United States.

1990, the us congress passed the immigration act 1990, one of which was to launch the investment-based immigration green card EB5 (the fifth priority) project for the first time. According to the regulations, qualified foreign investors can invest US$ 6,543.8+0,000 anywhere in the United States, or US$ 500,000 in some rural areas or areas with high unemployment rate to invest in economic or construction projects with investment risks, and prove that this investment may create 654.38+00 jobs for the United States, thus obtaining a US green card for themselves, their spouses and minor children.

At the end of 1992, the US Immigration Service began to accept applications for green cards for investment immigrants. In order to help American enterprises make better use of the investment immigration law to attract funds, Congress introduced the experimental regional center at the end of 1992. Once these geographical areas are approved, they can use the investment immigration law to attract investment for enterprises or development projects in this area. When applying for immigration, the requirements of investors in the SAR are relatively relaxed. Immigration requires that immigrants who invest outside the zone must participate in the daily management and operation of their own investment enterprises, while all investments in the zone can be left to the SAR for management.

In recent years. The US Congress grants 1 10,000 investment immigrant places every year, of which 3,000 are reserved for investment immigrant areas. However, until recent years, due to the complicated application procedures and the influence of anti-immigrant sentiment, these places have been largely surplus. According to the statistics of the State Council, from 1992 to 2004, only 6,024 people were granted temporary green cards for two years, of which only 653 people were granted permanent green cards.

After the financial crisis in 2009, the tightening of bank credit made many commercial development projects in the United States run aground because they could not get loans, which also made Americans pay more attention to the wallets of foreign immigrants. As of July, the number of temporary green cards approved by the Immigration Bureau this year has reached 965,438+02, almost twice the number approved in 2007. The number of recognized investment immigrant areas has also increased from more than 20 last year to 60.

20 10 under the situation of tightening immigration policies in many countries, the enthusiasm of American investment immigrants has increased instead of falling. Overseas Chinese Group, which took the lead in introducing American investment immigration projects in China, has successfully promoted safe and reliable government infrastructure projects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Zhou Nan and other places, bringing the latest Hawaiian investment projects and Sony film projects that have attracted much attention. Since 2004, overseas Chinese have successfully completed nearly 50 American investment projects with a total investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

From this point of view, the United States still attaches great importance to government investment in American immigrants. The policy has remained basically unchanged for many years and remained relatively stable. But the number of approvals and projects has increased a lot.