The fifth employment based visa preference category – EB-5, was created by Congress to encourage investment from immigrants seeking to enter the United States and is designed to benefit the US economy through creating jobs.
The EB-5 Visa is ideal for foreigners wishing to live, work, study, or retire anywhere in the US who can afford to invest at least $500,000 for typically a minimum of three years. Professionals, business people, foreign students, retirees and current non-immigrant visa holders are among others that choose the EB-5 Visa route.
Moreover, after first obtaining the conditional and then the permanent green card, the immigrant investors have the freedom to pursue almost any job or activity of their choice in the US without having any worry regarding visa renewal issues or about what options to pursue when their foreign‑born children reach the age of 21. Also, under the current property tax system, permanent residents (and conditional permanent residents) qualify for homestead exemption on their property taxes, unlike E-2 and other long-term visa holders who do not. Simply put, the EB-5 Visa gives you complete flexibility to live, work or retire in the US.