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The United States EB-5 visa, employment-based fifth preference category [1] or EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program was created in 1990 by the Immigration Act of 1990.It provides a method for eligible immigrant investors to become lawful permanent residents—informally known as "green card" holders—by investing substantial capital to finance a U.S. business (known as a "new commercial ...
The majority of foreign investors participate in the EB-5 program by investing in commercial enterprises managed by designated “regional centers”. Regional centers are entities approved by USCIS to secure foreign investment under the EB-5 program and to use such investment to promote job creation with a defined geographic area.
A Targeted Employment Area (TEA) is a region of the United States for which the threshold for investment for an investor to be eligible for the EB-5 visa is $500,000 or $900,000 (as opposed to the usual $1,800,000 threshold for the US as a whole), with a judge striking down the increase of the amount from $500,000 to $900,000 but USCIS website continuing to state it as $900,000.
The initial visa term varies from three months to five years depending on the U.S. reciprocity schedule with the applicant's country of citizenship. The E-2 visa can be renewed indefinitely and it is possible for the investor to change their legal status to a green card (e.g. EB-1A, EB-2, EB-3 or EB-5).
According to China Daily, the ferris wheel under construction on Staten Island, slated to be among the world's tallest and most expensive with an estimated cost of $500 million, has received $170 million in funding from approximately 300 Chinese investors through the U.S. EB-5 immigrant investor program, which grants permanent residency to ...
List of Federal Reserve branches [1] [2] Map of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, with the twelve Federal Reserve Banks marked as black squares, and all Branches within each district (24 total) marked as red circles. The Washington DC Headquarters is marked with a star. (Also, a 25th branch in Buffalo, NY had been closed in 2008.) Boston [3]
In the United States Government, the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR) is part of the United States Department of State, charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy and promoting U.S. interests in Europe and Eurasia (which it defines as being Europe, Turkey, Cyprus, the Caucasus Region, and Russia), as well as advising the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
The William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (WJPC) was created on September 3, 1997 [3] by then-U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, who had proposed creating a regional center tailored to the unique requirements of the Western Hemisphere where many countries could strengthen civilian defense and security leadership in revitalized democracies.