[20210608]IF11848_EB-5移民投资者区域中心计划.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov June 8, 2021EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center ProgramThe EB-5 Regional Center Program (RCP) allows foreign national investors to qualify for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status in exchange for foreign capital investment and job creation in specified geographic areas in the United States. The RCP is part of the EB-5 (fifth employment-based preference category) Immigrant Investor Program, established by Congress in 1990. The EB-5 preference category provides admission to foreign nationals who invest at least $1,800,000, or $900,000 in a rural area or an area with high unemployment (targeted employment areas TEAs), in a new commercial enterprise (NCE) in the United States; and create or preserve at least 10 jobs. The investment must be placed at risk (i.e., have a risk of loss and a chance for gain). After approximately two years in conditional LPR status, foreign investors and their derivative spouses and children (unmarried and under age 21) must file a petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to remove the conditions on their status. The petition must include evidence that the principals invested and sustained the inve