{"id":7622,"date":"2016-08-10T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:47:45","slug":"eb-5-quickest-way-us-green-card-indian-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/eb-5-quickest-way-us-green-card-indian-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"EB-5 the Quickest Way to a US Green Card, for Indian Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wealthy Indians are being told to forget employment and family-based immigration programs and instead look to investment immigration programs if they want a US green card quickly.<\/p>\n
While permanent residency for the more traditional immigration streams can take up to 20 years to materialize, the green card should arrive in two to four years under the EB-5 investment program<\/a>.<\/p>\n The popularity of the EB-5 is growing, meaning the wait time is only likely to rise, but the unpredictable delays of other immigration programs means investment is the fastest way to achieve permanent residence status for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n With the terms of the EB-5 likely to change in September 2016 \u2013 raising the investment requirement from $500,000 to near $1 million is one of the moves being considered \u2013 Indians are being advised to get in quickly.<\/p>\n Many are motivated by the change to put their children through higher education in the U.S.<\/p>\n An article in The Hindu newspaper points out that \u2018About 200 projects in the U.S. including 10 by people of Indian origin are offering investment opportunities to foreign investors across the globe\u2019.<\/p>\n The same article also suggested a US Green Card will be forthcoming within 15 months of an application, but in reality the wait time is significantly longer than that.<\/p>\n Recently it was highlighted that Chinese immigrants are asking to put children as primary candidates<\/a> on their applications over fears they may exceed the dependent age of 21 by the time approval comes around.<\/p>\n Under the current EB-5, investment of $500,000 in a regional centre project that creates 10 jobs in a targeted employment area will see the applicant, spouse and any children under 21 all awarded the coveted green card.<\/p>\n The targeted regional centre employment area route \u2013 which requires lower investment \u2013 accounts for more than 98 per cent of EB-5 applications, according to an Indian developer looking to attract EB-5 investment.<\/p>\n The investment is also passive, which means there is no obligation to be part of the business and the applicant can live anywhere in the USA once the green card is awarded.<\/p>\n Further reading<\/b><\/p>\n Wealthy Indians are being told to forget employment and family-based immigration programs and instead look to investment immigration programs if they want a US green card quickly. While permanent residency for the more traditional immigration streams can take up to 20 years to materialize, the green card should arrive in two to four years under…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hnWW-1YW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUS EB-5 Investment Requirements<\/h3>\n
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