EB-5 Process for Professionals & Executives
For professionals working in the US or planning to move there, career growth often comes with uncertainty around visas—especially employer-sponsored visas such as the H-1B, L-1, and J-1. LCR, led by senior executives with distinguished backgrounds from Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company, helps you and your family transition from these temporary work visas to a secure US Green Card through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program. We operate with a fiduciary, “client-first” mindset, ensuring a transparent process and a focus on the safety of your capital.
Why Professionals Choose EB-5
Career Flexibility: You can work with any employer or even start your own venture without being tied to a specific company for visa sponsorship.
Eliminate Visa Dependency: End the stress of the H-1B lottery and temporary visa renewals.
Family Stability: EB-5 ensures stability for your spouse and unmarried children under age 21, since they are all included in a single application.
Path to Citizenship: You can establish a clear path to US citizenship for long-term security.
Your Journey With Us
A Personalized Strategy
Your journey begins with a private consultation to understand your professional and residency goals. Our team provides expert guidance to help you select a USCIS-approved EB-5 project.
Application & Documentation Coordination
Our team assists with the Source of Funds checklist, ensuring a seamless and compliant process.
The End of Visa Anxiety
For professionals already in the US, we guide you through concurrently filing for Adjustment of Status (AOS). This process secures work and international travel permits in as little as 6 months.
Continue Your Career Without Interruption
While your EB-5 petition is in process, you can maintain your temporary work visa status, allowing you to focus on professional growth without interruption.
Conditional Green Card
Within 12–24 months, you and your family receive two-year conditional permanent residency. This grants you and your family members the freedom to live, work, and study anywhere in the US.
Permanent Green Card & Path to Citizenship
In the 90 days before your two-year conditional Green Card expires, we work with your attorney to file the I-829, leading to a 10-year Green Card. This final step provides a secure path to US citizenship.
A Personalized Strategy
Your journey begins with a private consultation to understand your professional and residency goals. Our team provides expert guidance to help you select a USCIS-approved EB-5 project.
Application & Documentation Coordination
Our team assists with the Source of Funds checklist, ensuring a seamless and compliant process.
The End of Visa Anxiety
For professionals already in the US, we guide you through concurrently filing for Adjustment of Status (AOS). This process secures work and international travel permits in as little as 6 months.
Continue Your Career Without Interruption
While your EB-5 petition is in process, you can maintain your temporary work visa status, allowing you to focus on professional growth without interruption.
Conditional Green Card
Within 12–24 months, you and your family receive two-year conditional permanent residency. This grants you the freedom to live, work, and study anywhere in the US.
Permanent Green Card & Path to Citizenship
In the 90 days before your two-year conditional Green Card expires, we work with your attorney to file the I-829, leading to a 10-year Green Card. This final step provides a secure path to US citizenship.
EB-5 for Professionals: From H1-B or L-1 to EB-5
FAQs
- Yes. The Regional Center program regulations specifically allow the pooling of funds by multiple investors to establish a Limited Partnership large enough to qualify all participating investors.
- However, each investor must individually meet the minimum at-risk capital requirement (currently $800,000 for investments in Targeted Employment Areas) and the job creation requirement of at least 10 full-time jobs sustained for two years.
- This means that while the capital can be pooled, every investor is still individually responsible for their own investment amount and job creation obligations under the EB-5 program.
Technically, there is no minimum age to file an EB-5 petition as a principal applicant. Even a baby or toddler could apply on their own if they meet the investment requirements.
However, LCR recommends that children under 13 years old should not apply as principal applicants. Instead, they should be included as dependents under their parent’s EB-5 petition. This is simpler and more practical, since the parent will typically be the investor and main petitioner.
Currently, there are no confirmed changes to the EB-5 program. The only commonly anticipated update is a potential increase in the minimum investment amount. However, investors who have already filed their petitions before any such changes take effect are generally “grandfathered,” meaning they will not be impacted by the new rules. Until any official updates are announced and implemented, the existing requirements remain in place.
- The USCIS relies on an econometric report to estimate job creation. This report suggests that if a certain amount of money is spent in a specific region for a specific project, it is deemed to have created a corresponding number of jobs.
- Importantly, USCIS does not perform a physical headcount by visiting the project site. Instead, USCIS utilizes the RIMS II (Regional Input-Output Modeling System) as an economic impact analysis tool based on input-output tables. RIMS II combines national data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with regional economic accounts and location quotients to accurately reflect the industrial structure and trade characteristics of a specific area.
- This methodology allows for a cost-effective estimation of regional economic impacts resulting from changes in output, earnings, or employment across various industries and regions. Although the results are approximate, RIMS II is widely used in both the public and private sectors to assess the economic effects of projects.
- For further information, please visit:
https://www.lcrcapital.com/blog/job-creation-calculation-eb5/
The required 10 jobs can be created any time from the start of the project up until the principal applicant files their I-829 petition. Additionally, jobs created even before the applicant’s I-526 filing are credited toward the EB-5 job creation requirements.