The more well-known avenues to secure a green card via an EB-5 investment include an individual investor either opening his/her own business or investing in a Regional Center project. Recently, another avenue called a “pooled” Direct Investment project has become popular in industries that create...
The number of countries with immigrant investor programs has increased dramatically over the past decade. Countries with such programs are located all over the globe, including Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. What these programs have in common is the exchange of residency rights or citizenship...
e-Council Inc. is proud to announce its official partnership with NES Financial Corp. (NES), an EB-5 escrow agent market leader, through NES’s exclusive Medallion Referral Partner Program. This program is dedicated to improving the EB-5 process. NES only selects “the most ethical organizations to join...
On September 30th, just as the Program was facing expiration, Congress extended the EB-5 Regional Center Program through December 11th as part of a temporary spending bill that will keep the government running through that date. While it is probable that the House and Senate...
The EB-5 Regional Center Program was scheduled to “sunset” on September 30, 2015. In a rare demonstration of bipartisan support, Congress passed, in an eleventh hour majority vote, a temporary funding bill, which included an extension of the EB-5 Regional Center Program through December 11,...
In our previous blog post, we discussed the two most noted economic benefits of the EB-5 program—it stimulates foreign investment and job creation in the U.S. In this post, we will discuss several unanticipated economic benefits that have resulted from the EB-5 program, particularly in...
In June, two United States senators—Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont—introduced legislation to reauthorize and reform the EB-5 Regional Center Program, which is set to expire on September 30th. The Leahy-Grassley bill was actually the third bill to...
This post is part of e-Council Inc.’s new “Spotlight” series, in which we feature successful EB-5 projects across different industries and business types. Some of the spotlighted businesses may be our clients while others are not, but all have one theme in common: SUCCESS using...
This post is part of e-Council Inc.’s new “Spotlight” series, in which we feature successful EB-5 projects across different industries and business types; some of the spotlighted businesses may be our clients whereas others are not, but all have one theme in common: SUCCESS using...
High-rent cities across the U.S. have been leveraging EB-5 funds to finance development projects involving low-income housing. In fact, some cities have formed their own Regional Centers with a particular focus on sponsoring affordable housing projects. (Though the precise definition of “affordable housing” varies across...