{"id":26411,"date":"2021-11-23T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/what-is-the-background-of-the-eb5-investor-program\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:21:38","slug":"what-is-the-background-of-the-eb5-investor-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/what-is-the-background-of-the-eb5-investor-program\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Background of the EB5 Investor Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>www.versfeldlaw.com<\/p>\n<p>The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 established the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Every year 10,000 EB-5 Green Cards are available. There is no quota waiting list for EB-5, except for China, unlike H-1B and H-2B nonimmigrant visa classifications, and most EB-2 and EB-3 immigrant classifications where the demand far exceeds the supply.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a third of these 10,000 EB-5 Green Cards (3,000) are set aside for qualifying immigrants who participate in an EB-5 Regional Center program that generally targets high unemployment areas across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The EB-5 Green Card program has three basic requirements:<\/p>\n<p>-The foreign investor must invest in a new U.S. Business or invest in an existing business that was created or restructured after November 19, 1990<br \/>\n-The foreign investor must have invested $1.8 million OR $900,000 when investing in a Regional Center.<br \/>\n-The business must create full-time employment for at least 10 U.S. workers.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the EB-5 Green Card program, schedule a free consultation with US Immigration Attorney, Leon Versfeld BLC, LLB (Pret) by emailing eb5@versfeldlaw.com<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S6LD1l7p160\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.versfeldlaw.com The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 established the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Every year 10,000 EB-5 Green Cards are available. There is no quota waiting list for EB-5, except for China, unlike H-1B and H-2B nonimmigrant visa classifications, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18064,2711,18063,18062,11,18061,45,308,13614,80,287],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-background","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-executive-order","tag-donald-trump-policy-change","tag-eb5","tag-foreign-immigration","tag-green-card","tag-invest","tag-invest-in-america","tag-investor","tag-program","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}