A foreign investor can participate in the EB-5 visa program on their own by making a direct investment in a new business in the United States that creates and/or saves the requisite 10 jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years. However, there are significant advantages to making your investment through a designated EB-5 Regional Center like Iconic Caribbean
Of the approximately 10,000 EB-5 Green Cards that are made available each year by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, 3,000 are reserved for foreign nationals who choose to invest through a Regional Center.
By pooling your investment with that of other foreign nationals through a Regional Center, you do not have to get involved in the day-to-day management of the commercial enterprise you are investing in and can enjoy the freedom of being a limited partner.
Investing through a Regional Center allows for a more flexible and expansive definition of the requisite job creation or preservation criterion, to include indirect jobs created or preserved. This broader measure does not apply to employment generated by direct investments.
As mentioned in the EB-5 Program’s Overview section, the minimum investment requirement through Iconic Caribbean EB-5 Regional Center is halved to just US $500,000 because of Puerto Rico’s designation as a Target Employment Area. This reduced investment amount does not apply to direct investments even if they are made in Target Employment Areas.
Our experience has been gained through multiple and varied projects executed throughout Puerto Rico, across the U.S. mainland, select countries in Asia, Eurasia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Central and Eastern Europe. We speak six languages and have served as a bridge between the United States and many countries in a number of industries over a period of thirty-plus years.