{"id":7761,"date":"2016-08-30T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:47:33","slug":"developers-concerned-future-us-eb-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/developers-concerned-future-us-eb-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers Concerned Over Future Of US EB-5"},"content":{"rendered":"
Uncertainty surrounding the future of the US EB-5 investment immigration program is forcing developers to hedge their bets by considering other streams of funding for their projects.<\/p>\n
The popular visa generated close to $5 billion in investment in 2015, with the regeneration of some of the biggest cities in the US done with the help of the funds.<\/p>\n
But with no decision yet on the future of the controversial program, developers are concerned they will lose a major source of cash flow.<\/p>\n
The US government is thought to be considering either scrapping the program or raising the investment threshold, currently between $500,000 and $1 million depending on the type of project.<\/p>\n
Recently it was highlighted that Chinese immigrants are asking to put\u00a0children as primary candidates<\/a>\u00a0on their applications over fears they may exceed the dependent age of 21 by the time approval comes around.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Indian nationals with aspirations of living in the US are being told the EB-5 visa is the most realistic way of achieving their dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n Downtown Dallas has been rebuilt and regenerated using EB-5 funds.<\/p>\n Mayor\u00a0 Mike Rawlings wants to see the program extended and expanded come September, believing America\u2019s urban areas are now reliant on the billions of dollars invested.<\/p>\n In Dallas, the $500 million raised by Civitas EB-5 Capital has been spent on new offices, hotels and apartment buildings both downtown and in the nearby area.<\/p>\n There have also been a number of fraud cases linked to the investment program.<\/p>\n Further reading<\/b><\/p>\n Uncertainty surrounding the future of the US EB-5 investment immigration program is forcing developers to hedge their bets by considering other streams of funding for their projects. The popular visa generated close to $5 billion in investment in 2015, with the regeneration of some of the biggest cities in the US done with the help…<\/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-21b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761"}],"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=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFraud Cases Linked to EB-5<\/h3>\n
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