The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has currently approved over 600 regional centers. With countless U.S. EB-5 investment immigration projects available in the Chinese market, how can investors select the highest-quality project that is best suited for them among so many options?
Generally speaking, an investor's motivations and objectives will determine the final choice. Many investors choose an EB-5 project with the fundamental goal of selecting a secure project that not only leads to successful immigration to the United States and obtaining a Green Card, but more importantly, achieves the best balance of minimal risk and stable returns. Therefore, choosing a project is like choosing a stock; U.S. EB-5 investment immigration investors must look at fundamental information, such as industry development prospects and industry prosperity indices.
As is well known, the industry prosperity index is a comprehensive index that reflects industry trends by statistically weighting various industry indicators. Paying attention to the industry prosperity index allows for a comprehensive and professional understanding of the trends in that industry. Examples include the manufacturing industry, or hotel and real estate indices. Since real estate projects account for a high proportion of the EB-5 industry, many U.S. EB-5 investment immigration investors use these industry conditions as an important reference when making their choices.
In fact, there are some projects in the EB-5 industry that are fundamentally unaffected by industry prosperity levels. In addition to the well-known emergency hospitals, statutory alternative energy, and essential residential apartment projects, there are also federal and state-level highway infrastructure projects.
In the U.S. bond market, highway bonds have always been a favorite for institutional investors' hedging funds because traffic volume on highways is very stable, and the returns are consistent and unaffected by economic indices, making the expected returns very stable. Highway projects may not necessarily be high-profit projects, but they are certainly projects with stable returns and strong predictability, which is exactly what EB-5 investors are looking for.
Because investors choose to invest in EB-5 projects not to pursue high risk and high returns, but to achieve the best balance of low risk and stable returns, highway projects possess exactly these characteristics. The United States is known as the "nation on wheels," and American culture is therefore referred to as car culture. Americans may not take trains or buses, but they cannot live without their own private cars. Private cars have become a necessity for American life. Therefore, the operating conditions of highways in the United States are quite stable and continuously prosperous.
Generally speaking, the U.S. highway system is divided into two categories: free highways and toll highways. The vast majority of highways are free, subsidized and maintained by the U.S. federal and state governments, but there are also a few toll highways, which are generally operated as government monopolies or contracted by the government to private enterprises.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is one of the largest toll highway management systems in the United States. It is affiliated with the Pennsylvania state government and has a 77-year history. According to the latest data provided by the regional center, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission currently collects $830 million in tolls annually. It is expected that by 2020 (which is when the EB-5 project is scheduled for repayment), the annual toll revenue will reach approximately $1.3 billion, with a default rate of zero to date.
For EB-5 investors, especially in government-monopolized highway projects like the Pennsylvania Turnpike project, the borrower, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, sets prices based on the construction and operating costs of the highway. In particular, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has independent pricing power, and therefore has strong debt-bearing and repayment capabilities, making losses impossible.
According to recent media reports, the decline in U.S. gasoline prices has historically stimulated U.S. automobile consumption. Coupled with the fact that the U.S. highway concept has always been a "hedging" sector for institutional investors, it can be inferred that the decline in U.S. gasoline prices is also good news for the U.S. highway industry. For the U.S. federal government and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, this will also usher in long-term stable prosperity and development, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike project is bound to become a hot project in the EB-5 market.
IIUSA authorities believe that the occurrence of immigration visa backlogs in 2015 is inevitable, and this, along with the increase in investment amounts, will become the two major keywords for U.S. EB-5 investment immigration in 2015. As a leading institution in U.S. investment immigration, Worldway Immigration Group is very fortunate to have the opportunity at this critical juncture to provide Chinese investors with a 100% U.S. government EB-5 project that has been pre-approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: the Pennsylvania Turnpike project.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike project is not only a rare government project that has received 100% pre-approval from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for its actual I-924 project, but it is also a rare key U.S. federal highway hub project in the EB-5 market in recent years, and is the best choice for dealing with the many uncertainties of 2015. The first phase of the Pennsylvania Turnpike project was sold out in just two months. Currently, the second phase of the Pennsylvania Turnpike project is experiencing an even more enthusiastic buying frenzy. Consultation Hotline: 400-138-2929
