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Marko Issever
Our mission is to connect investors to EB-5 issuers of carefully evaluated projects.
Investors, we speak with, aim to immigrate to the United States while making a meaningful financial contribution, typically in the form of a real estate investment.
EB-5 issuers, we speak with, are typically real estate developers, looking into EB-5 as an alternate funding method for their projects.
While no investment comes with zero risk, our professionals carefully evaluate both the investment projects and the qualifications of prospective investors.
BIO
Mr. Marko Issever joined Riverside Management Group (RMG) as a Managing Director in May 2016 in order to, among other things, lead the Firm’s EB5 capital raising and placement activities via its wholly owned subsidiary BCW Securities LLC. He is also the Founder and CEO of America EB5 Visa, LLC (www.americaeb5visa.com), a company dedicated to connect EB-5 issuers of carefully evaluated projects to investors.
He is also the Founding Partner of BH Capital Management, LLC, (BHCM) a real estate investment company specializing in investment and development opportunities.
Prior to joining RMG and establishing America EB5 Visa, LLC and BHCM, Mr. Issever was a Managing Director at The Bank of New York Mellon Global & Capital Markets, leading the firm’s derivative business to financial institutions globally.
Mr. Issever has been in Wall Street for over 30 years and was also a Founding member of the derivative business in Sakura Global Capital, a Japanese bank subsidiary that subsequently merged with Sumitomo Capital Markets to form SMBC Capital Markets.
Mr. Issever started his Wall Street career in Prudential Securities’ Financial Strategies Group where he specialized in mortgage backed security opportunities such as CMO’s, risk-controlled arbitrage transactions, as well as other asset backed securitizations including securitization of policy holder loans.
Mr. Issever is a graduate of The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania where he earned his MBA degree in Finance and MA in Economics. Prior to Wharton, he graduated from Boğaziçi Universitesi and Robert Kolej in Istanbul, Turkey.
He is the Founding President of Aleph Learning Center, a Jewish outreach organization and a Board Member of Manhattan Sephardic Congregation.
He holds the series 7 & 63 securities licenses.
He speaks Turkish (native) and Ladino Spanish fluently. He is married and lives with his three children in New York City.
News & Updates
Questions and Answers
- All our clients are asking to give them a sense of the next reauthorization date of the EB-5 Regional Center program. (1 answer)
- The Department of Homeland Security proposes to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by USCIS (1 answer)
- Why is the Regional Center EB-5 program not being reauthorized already? (1 answer)
- Advise for Chinese EB-5 investors (1 answer)
- Applicant profile for EB5 (2 answers)
- Are there any applications that are non-infrastructure or real estate related? - 3rd April, 2013 (2 answers)
- As a licensed Florida Real Estate Sales Associate, How and where may I lawfully get involved? (4 answers)
- As an overseas agent/broker to what extent is one allowed to have an office to conduct operations in the US - 3rd April, 2013 (2 answers)
- Behring Regional Center vs. Chad Wolf lawsuit (1 answer)
- Can a single family housing development of 100 to 140 homes qualify for an EB 5 Investment? (3 answers)
- Can all of the invested funds be a gift? (13 answers)
- Can an EB-5 regional center be sold to a foreign entity? (3 answers)
- Can E2 visa holders use their existing business to apply for the EB-5? (1 answer)
- Can EB-5 application be transferred? (3 answers)
- Can I appeal an I-829 denial to USCIS? (7 answers)
- Can our client’s dependent child file the I-526 petition and then apply for the F-1 visa? (1 answer)
- Can we get some clarity on the newly expanded definition of Accredited Investor? (1 answer)
- Can you comment on the best strategy following I-526 approval? (1 answer)
- Comment on sustaining the investment requirement (2 answers)
- Could you please elaborate on the current status of the Regional Center version of the EB-5 program? (1 answer)
- Criteria for project selection (1 answer)
- Dependents of EB-5 applicants of which countries are currently subject to "age-out" phenomena? (1 answer)
- Do I have to invest my own money in my EB-5 project? (5 answers)
- Do I have to use escrow when taking in EB-5 investors capital? (7 answers)
- Do I need to invest before the I-526 petition is filed? (3 answers)
- Do investor funds need be reimbursed? (6 answers)
- Do the funds for EB-5 have to come from foreign sources? (1 answer)
- Due to the recent financial troubles, they are worried about potentially failing projects after sufficient job creation. Can these clients proceed to file their permanent green card application and expect to be approved? (1 answer)
- EB5 application fail (2 answers)
- EB5 vs E2 (2 answers)
- For adjustment of status filing purposes, when can EB5 applicants who have approved I-526 petitions use Final Action Dates and when can they use Dates for Filing? (1 answer)
- Global tax liability (1 answer)
- Guaranteed investment (1 answer)
- How are EB-5 funds usually returned after I-829 approval? (9 answers)
- How are EB-5 funds usually returned after I-829 approval? (4 answers)
- How are public-private EB-5 projects different? (3 answers)
- How can an EB-5 application be expedited? (5 answers)
- How can an EB-5 investment be split between several businesses? (3 answers)
- How can family members on different visas immigrate under EB-5? (3 answers)
- How can I apply for EB-5 from outside my home country? (3 answers)
- How can I apply for EB-5 if I already applied for an investor visa in another country? (3 answers)
- How can I change from E-2 classification to an EB-5 visa? (3 answers)
- How can I keep capital at risk if I am ready to or need to pay back my investors early? (3 answers)
- How can I split my $1 million investment between land purchase and working costs? (6 answers)
- How can I stay in the United States for EB-5 if my J-1 visa will expire? (5 answers)
- How can my fiance receive a green card through my EB-5 application? (2 answers)
- How can someone without an employment history apply for EB-5? (7 answers)
- How do I find the best EB-5 project in terms of investment? (2 answers)
- How do you determine if a candidate is subject to retrogression? (1 answer)
- How does an EB-5 investor's family member adjust their status after I-526 approval? (3 answers)
- How does one make sure to demonstrate that the project is located in a Targeted Employment Area? (1 answer)
- How important is it to show aggressive revenue growth for my EB-5 project? (3 answers)
- How long does it take to process each step of the EB-5 application? (1 answer)
- How long should my business plan be? (3 answers)
- How many Regional Centers are there? (8 answers)
- How much time it takes to process I-526 Petition? (8 answers)
- How safe is an EB-5 investment? (4 answers)
- How will a spouse's I-485 denial affect an EB-5 investor's I-829? (2 answers)
- How will EB-5 visa retrogression benefit investors from other countries? (3 answers)
- How will individual employees affect I-829 approval? (3 answers)
- How will other EB-5 investors affect my own EB-5 application? (2 answers)
- How would an EB-5 policy change affect submitted I-526 applications? (3 answers)
- I am confused as to whether an EB-5 project raises money as a loan from investors or in the form of equity participation. Can you please clarify? (5 answers)
- I have a Regional Center in Florida. Can I sell it? (3 answers)
- I have heard that a direct EB-5 project can be a 'pooled' investment, is this true? (4 answers)
- I’ve heard about foreign brokers. How is this different from foreign finders? (3 answers)
- If all the promotion and sales of an investment is done overseas, is US brokers license required? - 3rd April,2013. (2 answers)
- If our client has an EB-2 application pending can they file for EB-5 and visa versa? (1 answer)
- If the EB-5 project our clients invest in goes bankrupt, does that mean that they can no longer get a green card through this petition? (1 answer)
- Immigrant visa versus non immigrant visa (1 answer)
- India retrogression status (1 answer)
- Is an investment in a regional center guaranteed? (8 answers)
- Is it possible to transfer the EB-2 priority date to my EB-5 application? (1 answer)
- Many of our clients are citing the lawsuit filed against the US Department of Homeland Security as the reason they should be waiting before moving forward with their applications (1 answer)
- Many of our investors are getting frustrated due to the uncertainty around the Regional Center EB-5 Program. Do you have any suggestions for them while they are waiting for the re-authorization of it? (1 answer)
- Many things are happening in the market that could directly or indirectly affect existing or prospective EB-5 clients. Could you please give a brief synopsis? (1 answer)
- Minimum Age Requirement (1 answer)
- Our clients are asking about the recent Politico article, published on March 18th (1 answer)
- Our clients are asking if we could summarize and clarify the newly announced redeployment rules for them. (1 answer)
- Our clients with pending I-526 applications want to know whether they could apply for an E2 visa while their immigrant intent EB-5 petition is pending. (1 answer)
- Our investors from China, Vietnam, and India are asking whether there exist any alternatives to EB5 (1 answer)
- Our investors in the pipeline are asking why they cannot file their I-526 petition? (1 answer)
- Our investors want to know when they can file a new I-526 petition. (1 answer)
- Process of upgrade from E-2 to EB5 (2 answers)
- Question on offshore broker/dealers setting up offices in the US and soliciting issuers - 3rd April, 2013 (2 answers)
- Question on SEC involvement asked during USCIS conference (4 answers)
- Questioning on the rising of EB-5 fee? (8 answers)
- Recent ruling of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on loans (1 answer)
- Reinvestment risk (1 answer)
- Residency requirement (1 answer)
- Residential envestment (5 answers)
- Retrogression (2 answers)
- Retrogression induced reinvestment risk (2 answers)
- Retrogression Risk (2 answers)
- Return of investment criteria (1 answer)
- Should I have the same attorney for all EB-5 applications? (5 answers)
- Source of funds (1 answer)
- Source of Funds (1 answer)
- Source of Funds for Inheritance (1 answer)
- Sources of money fro EB5 investment (1 answer)
- The big news in immigration this week was that Iranian nationals are no longer eligible to apply or extend their existing E2 visas. (1 answer)
- The most significant immediate Biden Administration immigration and international travel related actions (1 answer)
- This past week, USCIS announced that they will no longer approve I-526 petitions on a first-in-first-out basis but rather according to the visa availability approach. Could you please elaborate on this very important change? (1 answer)
- Three general advices (1 answer)
- Topic of expedited processing (1 answer)
- Total cost & expenditure for EB5 (2 answers)
- Waiting to receive communication from the National Visa Center (NVC) (1 answer)
- We are hearing horror stories about EB-5 not being at the right spot in the capital stack. How much EB-5 is too much, how much is too little? (1 answer)
- We are hearing that there are significant benefits for applicants in the US with a nonimmigrant visa applying for EB5 while on US soil. Can you please elaborate? (2 answers)
- We have clients holding a green card for over five years with a pending I-829 application. What is your suggestion for this group of clients? (1 answer)
- We have Indian clients who are asking us if they should use the Final Action Dates chart. (1 answer)
- What are some of the advantages of the RIA of 2022 for potential investors? (1 answer)
- What are the pros and cons of using guest expenditures and/ or revenues inputs to my economic impact model to show more job creation? (3 answers)
- What business ownership percentage is needed to qualify for EB-5? (3 answers)
- What can an EB-5 investor do if they are dissatisfied with project progress? (4 answers)
- What can be counted towards the $1 million investment requirement? (3 answers)
- What exactly happened on December 3, 2021? Why is the Regional Center Program still closed? (1 answer)
- What happens between I-526 filing and approval? (3 answers)
- What happens if a conditional permanent resident leaves the U.S. for six months? (4 answers)
- What happens if the necessary jobs are not created? (5 answers)
- What is an Opportunity Zone? How can I take advantage of it? (1 answer)
- What is an RFE? (4 answers)
- What is form I-924? (6 answers)
- What is the fee for Form I-526? (4 answers)
- What is the fee for Form I-829? (4 answers)
- What is the I-829 approval rate for the EB-5 program? (3 answers)
- What is the premium processing fee for EB-5 petitions? (5 answers)
- What major changes will the new rules bring once they become effective on November 21? (1 answer)
- What must be proven in order to obtain removal of conditions on permanent residence? (4 answers)
- What visitor visa would I apply for before the EB-5 visa to go to a U.S. territory? (2 answers)
- What would happen to the I-829, removal of conditions, application of our client if by the time of the filing of I-829 the required jobs were created but subsequently during the review process of the I-829 the project goes bankrupt? (1 answer)
- When can our investors start filing their I-526 petitions for Regional Center Projects? (1 answer)
- When can the investors file their I-526E applications? (1 answer)
- When do our EB-5 investor clients start paying tax to the US? (1 answer)
- When is it possible to apply for U.S. citizenship? (6 answers)
- When must a spouse be included on an EB-5 application? (2 answers)
- Where can we live when immigrating through EB-5? (3 answers)
- Where do we go from here? Any insights? (1 answer)
- Why do I need a business plan writer for my EB-5 project if I already know how to write a business plan? (3 answers)
- Will our investors be able to file their I-526 petitions now? (1 answer)
- Will USCIS continue to keep EB-5 Regional Center investor petitions in abeyance in the New Year? (1 answer)
- With the increased processing times, could you give us a sense as to how long will it take for our clients to get a conditional green card? (1 answer)
- Would marrying a spouse born in a country that is not experiencing retrogression speed up the EB-5 process? (1 answer)
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