Investment
The Immigration Act of 1990 (“IMMACT 90”) helped create the Immigrant Investor Program as the fifth preference category for employment-based immigration, also referred to as EB-5. This was the first time a category expressly granted the admission of immigrant investors as lawful permanent residents (LPR’s) and presently is the only such category to do so. The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is accessible to those immigrants who have invested, or are in the process of investing at least $1 million in a new commercial enterprise employing at least 10 full-time U.S. workers. Individuals who invest in a “targeted employment area” (TEA), however, only have to invest a minimum of $500,000. Read more…
Individuals in the below outlined cases can qualify for employment-based visas:
- Immigrants with advanced degrees and performing work in the national interest
- Immigrants with a Bachelor degree or higher who have job offers and/or work experience
- Immigrants with extraordinary ability in business, arts or sciences
- Managers and Executives of multi-national businesses
- Exceptional professors or researchers
- Religious workers and ministers whose services are required by their non-profit religious organization
- Immigrant investors with substantial funds invested in the U.S. Read more…
