Last weekend, Worldway Immigration Group partnered with the "Chuguo Ce" (Going Abroad Strategy) program on Shanghai's CBN Channel to analyze new trends in U.S. investment immigration. Worldway immigration experts and authoritative U.S. immigration attorneys addressed the three major trends currently affecting U.S. investment immigration—visa retrogression, policy changes, and asset allocation—and shared practical methods with EB-5 investors on how to keep their eyes open and choose the right path.
Worldway Immigration Group partners with CBN to analyze new trends in U.S. investment immigration
Worldway Immigration Group President Dr. Winner Xing, Worldway Immigration Group Vice President and General Manager of the Shanghai office, Ms. Linda, along with Ms. Kate Kalmykov, an authoritative senior attorney from the top U.S. law firm GT, analyzed on Shanghai's CBN "Chuguo Ce" program that: After 26 years, U.S. investment immigration may face a crisis of policy changes and price increases in 2016. A price increase would not only raise the investment amount by $300,000, but also increase the difficulty of explaining the source of funds, as well as investment and rejection risks. This is especially true given the current EB-5 visa retrogression and severe backlog, coupled with the possibility that Targeted Employment Area (TEA) designation standards may become stricter or face cancellation. Therefore, investors must act quickly to invest and strive to successfully submit their applications and complete their investments before September 30 of this year, as this is the best way to ensure the $500,000 investment immigration price is locked in.
At the same time, Worldway Immigration Group kindly reminds investors: While you should realize the urgency of the current EB-5 reform situation and take investment action as soon as possible, you must also avoid seeking medical advice from any doctor you can find (i.e., acting rashly). With many variables overlapping, you must keep your eyes open and choose the right path for U.S. investment immigration to avoid various potential risks:
I. Lock in projects that have already received pre-approval from USCIS
EB-5 projects that have already received pre-approval from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have the distinct advantage of potentially entering a fast-track approval channel. This not only reduces the investor's green card risk but also saves the time spent on reviewing project documents and responding to requests for evidence, making it a superior choice for dealing with current retrogression, application backlogs, and the 9/30 policy changes.
II. Choose high-quality projects with minimal risk
Investors must carefully control project risks and need to comprehensively consider other aspects of the quality of an EB-5 project, including the investment entity (the strength, experience, and integrity of the project and developer), whether job creation is sufficient (whether it uses a reliable job calculation method recognized by USCIS and whether there is a sufficient surplus in job creation), whether there is a good exit mechanism (first-priority repayment or second-priority repayment), the quality of collateral and guarantees, the feasibility of project operations, and the actual cash flow of the project, etc.
III. Choose a strong professional team
A strong professional team generally includes three basic elements: a professional team to prepare project documents, a well-known investment immigration agency to select projects and a professional documentation team to submit applications, and a well-known authoritative EB-5 law firm team to mitigate risks.
Worldway Immigration Group's hot-selling EB-5 projects—the DLJ Four Seasons Hotel Resort project (a project where investors have been successfully approved and repayment is made by a large real estate fund), the 90 Columbus Apartment project (a rare, approved concept apartment project in Manhattan, New York), and the Nevada Solar Power project (a high-job-creation project guaranteed by a large publicly listed parent company in New York)—all possess numerous advantages such as strong developer strength, sufficient job creation, low investment and repayment risk, and a sound exit mechanism. For more information on events and projects, please inquire at: 400-138-2929