It has become so hard to access capital for small or emerging business that an obscure imagration program has hit the news as a way to get capital and get a greencard for the people providing the capital, it seems like a win win in my book.
The basic outline of the EB-5 Visa Program
- Demonstrate that a "qualified investment" (see below) is being made in a new commercial enterprise located within an approved Regional Center; and,
- Show, using reasonable methodologies, that 10 or more jobs are actually created either directly or indirectly by the new commercial enterprise through revenues generated from increased exports, improved regional productivity, job creation, or increased doemstic capital investment resulting from the pilot program.
CNN.com has done a full story on this and is worth a read.