Welcome to EB-5 Capital

The United States Congress created the EB-5 Program in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Under this program, foreign-national entrepreneurs and their families are eligible to become permanent residents of the United States if they make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and plan to create or preserve ten permanent, full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers. The program is known as “EB-5” due to the visa category (Employment-Based Immigration: Fifth Preference) under which the investors apply.

The program has expanded substantially since its inception, with Congress adding the Immigrant Investor Program, also known at the Regional Center Program. This program provides EB-5 visas for participants who invest capital directly in an existing business, new business or through a Regional Center provides several significant benefits to entrepreneurs seeking U.S. residency through the EB-5 Program. An important advantage is the ability to count both direct and indirect jobs, while the direct investment program allows immigrants to count only direct jobs. Direct job creation is a result of an investment that creates or preserves ten actual, identifiable jobs over a two-year period. Further, the business in which an investor invests, relieves investors of the responsibility to demonstrate that employees have been hired directly; the burden of proving job creation is passed to the business invested in. Our team uses analyses conducted by distinguished economists to establish, on investors’ behalf, that jobs were created by the venture.

Whether an EB-5 investor chooses to participate directly or via a Regional Center, the minimum investment required is the same: $1.8 million. However, if the business receiving the capital investment is located in a Targeted Employment Area (TEA)—defined as a rural area or a region with high unemployment—the minimum investment requirement drops to $900,000.

Complete information on the Immigrant Investor Program is available from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services: EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program