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Bridge financing has been one of the quiet workhorses of the EB-5 regional center market. It typically operates as follows: a developer needs to break ground before all EB-5 subscriptions are complete. A bank loan, sponsor loan, private credit facility, or other interim financing keeps the project moving. Later, EB-5 […]

For regional center EB-5, certain dilemmas or problems may arise even after the investment was already made and the paperwork once looked routine. The regional center misses the EB-5 Integrity Fund payment. Form I-956G is not filed. A principal becomes disqualified. An SEC enforcement action exposes securities violations. A DOJ […]

In EB-5 practice, investors often ask two different questions as if they were the same question. The first is: When can I get my money back? The second is: When will USCIS consider my investment properly sustained? After the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (“RIA”), this issue became […]

USCIS processing disparities, set-aside category imbalances, and the long road ahead for Mainland China applicants, behind a Visa Bulletin that still reads “Current.” Mainland China accounts for nearly 51% of all post-RIA EB-5 petitions filed since April 2022, yet the latest data paints a sobering picture: Chinese investors face some […]

The EB-5 TEA Playbook | Post 3 In the previous post, we worked through the rural TEA definition and saw that the analysis, while detail-sensitive, is relatively mechanical. You check two things, MSA status and population, and if both pass, the geography qualifies. High-unemployment TEA analysis is different in kind, […]