To define clearly what Direct EB5 Investments are, it is an investment into a new business where the creation of 10 full-time jobs are required. In this investment,an investor is directly devoting into a real operating business and the investment amount could either be $1,000,000 or $500,000. The investment is set to $1,000,000 for businesses in all locations except those in the TIA or targeted employee area where the investment is dropped to $500,000. A TIA can either be a rural area or a location where the unemployment rate is 150% of the national average. It is tagged as TIA with a lower investment cost as the U.S. would want investors to invest in businesses in these areas as it would really help a lot in terms of providing jobs.
Examples of Direct EB-5 investments are for businesses like franchise, restaurants, an IT company, chain of retail stores and a lot more. Regardless of what investment the investor chooses to have, the most important thing to remember is that these investments should be able to create those 10 full-time jobs. This means that if the investor wants to put up a gas station or any business for that matter, he or she needs to check if this business can create the need for at least 10 full-time jobs. If not, then the next course of action is to open in multiple locations and create the minimum require full-time jobs or more, so that they can qualify for an EB-5 investor green card. View more information to learn more about the requirements. |