Ozark Mountains Regional Center I-924 Petition was filed in August 2012, and was approved as a designated Regional Center on March 11, 2014.
It is with great excitement that our management team works now to bring Ozark Mountains Regional Center (“OMRC”) into operation. We expect of ourselves exacting standards in compliance with USCIS rules and regulations for operation of EB-5 Immigrant Investment Regional Centers, impeccable administration, recordkeeping, and follow-up on behalf of our immigrant investors to ensure each of them gains a permanent green card for themselves and their family members. OMRC’s management team will bring outstanding effort to finance projects that will benefit our economy, create jobs for families, and better the communities in which we live and work.
OMRC has an agreement with MAEDC to develop expansion of our regional center to the north of its existing boundaries to include the counties of Randolph, Howard, Monroe, Macon, Chariton and Cooper.
Tam Lonergan and Mike Bollin worked together as retirement actuaries at Mercer Human Resource Consulting for over thirty years. As young professionals, they toiled over challenging issues presented by mergers and acquisitions of their clients, changes to retirement laws and ERISA regulations, and management of the workforce for which they were responsible. Time and their niche in the consulting arena, and as credentialed actuaries has produced seasoned professionals with high standards, strong work ethic, and exceptional moral ethics.
Spencer Thomson entered the arena while Tam was working on a Tax Increment Financing (“TIF”) incentive for a mixed-use real estate development. Spencer became an integral part of the creation of that TIF. Tam saw in Spencer his talent as a tax incentive and real estate attorney and was impressed that Spencer also held himself to the highest standards as an attorney.
When the Great Recession began in 2007-2008, capital for projects became virtually impossible to acquire. Spencer and Tam became aware of the use of EB-5 capital investment to fund projects. Efforts to align with an existing regional center that could amend to include the central Missouri area proved to be a difficult task. Finally being people of action, they decided to file for their own regional center designation. Tam’s son, Nathan, has been a participant since the original TIF. Tam, knowing the complexity of managing large projects, asked Mike to participate in the Regional Center team. Mike had extensive expertise in the administration of pension plans, experience that could be applied to the administrative demands of EB-5. Tam also asked his wife, Cynthia, to participate, using her research ability to keep track of the ever-changing immigrant investment landscape. Jared Lonergan joined the team in early 2014, leading up the marketing and web design for the Regional Center.