How long is the EB5 investment immigration cycle in the United States?

Aside from the immigration company itself and specific projects, there are many issues that investors need to pay attention to. The basis is to carefully study the PPM of the project.

1.The reasonableness of the business plan, including market research, whether there is a dispute over the number of people employed, and whether the vitality of the project can truly meet the long schedule.

2.The structure of the limited partnership, the rights and constraints between the investor and the GP GP.

3.The investment model clarifies the creditor's rights or equity relationship, whether the collateral is a real mortgage under the creditor's rights relationship, and whether the value of the collateral can truly cover the investment funds; Projects with an ownership structure have become rare recently, but once they appear, it is necessary to pay more attention to the rights and responsibilities in the ownership structure.

4.The real situation of the developer, if it is a top developer, whether it is operated by a subsidiary, if so, how many subsidiaries there are, this is a common "shell company" protection scheme.

5.Bank loans, if available, will reduce the repayment priority of investors, and more attention should be paid to the profitability and liquidity of the project or the ability to mortgage. At the same time, it is important to pay attention to the order in which the bank loan and EB-5 are in place in case the EB-5 funds become the guarantee for the bank loan.

6.**Strength of support, written or **support is more common, basically useless; whether the tax subsidy is based on the commencement of operation of the project; If there is a ** direct investment, it is necessary to clarify the relationship with the project, and the more beautiful things may hide.

7.At present, because of the long waiting period, most projects still use direct loans to the project, or a small amount of funds are deposited in the supervision account, which is a problem, but there is no way.

8.Considering the rationality of project financing from a macro perspective, if the funding gap of a large project is not large, it is not very reasonable to use EB-5 funds, and now is not the time for swarming immigrants, investors are more cautious, and the project is more optional, and the financing difficulty is greater than in the past, so the theory that the smaller the proportion of EB-5 funds in the total investment, the safer it is, needs to be measured by everyone.

Now it is generally eight years, and it is more troublesome whether the policy changes during this period.

On September 29, U.S. time, the U.S. Visa Office announced the visa bulletin for November 2020: the EB-5 backlog in Table A is August 15, 2015, which remains unchanged; The EB-1 priority date is December 1, 2018, moving forward 6 months. The EB-5 bulletin date in Table B remains unchanged at December 15, 2015; The EB-1 bulletin date on Table B remains at September 1, 2020.

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