Congress created the employment-based fifth preference (EB-5) immigrant investor green card category in 1990 for immigrants who invest in and manage U.S. companies that benefit the U.S. economy and create or save at least 10 full-time jobs for U.S. workers.
The normal amount required to invest is $1 million, although that amount is reduced to $500,000 if the investment is made in a high unemployment area or rural region. In 2003 Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the EB-5 category for ways to improve the program. The GAO recently published its findings.
The EB-5 visa category has been severely underused since its inception. According to the GAO report, despite making 10,000 EB-5 visas available each year, the USCIS has only issued a total 6,024 visas to immigrant investors and their families since 1992, or about 500 a year.
The GAO attributes the low issuance of these visas to several factors, including the torturous application process and the government's failure to publish regulations to implement a 2002 law intended to help EB-5 investors.
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https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1
http://eb-1-visa-green-card.blogspot.com/2018/03/eb-1-eb-2-self-sponsored-green-cards.html
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https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1
http://eb-1-visa-green-card.blogspot.com/2018/03/eb-1-eb-2-self-sponsored-green-cards.html
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