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Get Green Card in U.S
For any immigrant obtain U.S. citizenship is the great prize of the lottery. And the silver medal is to get the green card.
The residence card entitles you to work and live permanently in the United States. And you can be, if the owner so desires, a bridge on the road to obtaining a U.S. passport.
The green card can be obtained in several ways. Being the most common requests for the same for foreigners by a citizen or resident or family from an American business. But it is also possible to get through a financial investment. This last possibility has never been easier than before.
These are called EB-5 visas. To obtain in principle the alien is required to invest a million dollars in a business in the United States. However, since the 90′s allowed the reduced version of this visa: invest just $ 500,000 and create ten jobs.
But it is necessary that this investment takes place in rural or economically depressed urban area with an unemployment rate that is at least 50 percent higher than the national average.
But as has shown an investigation of The New York Times, the term “depressed area” is very flexible. In several states, including California, New York and Texas, state officials are defining those areas in a little “natural” linking areas rich and poor areas attractive to foreign investment, particularly in development of construction projects.
Thus, skyscrapers are being built in rich areas like Midtown Manhattan and Battery Park, the southern tip of Manhattan Island where the business district, with money given by groups of foreign investors in exchange for their financial contribution, have received the EB-5 visas, or whatever it is, the green card.
The modus operandi is as follows: a real estate developer has a project to build in the rich part of an area established by the authorities as “depressed.”
Dozens of investors participating in the project. Some are Americans or permanent residents are foreign investors and other fees that provide half a million dollars each.
These investors, who receive the EB-5 on their investment, they are often captured by agents of the real estate developer that holds conferences or traveling to countries where you know there is great interest in this type of visas, particularly China.
It is even common that foreign investors receive no return on your investment or that it is minimal. But they have obtained the green card for themselves and their family members, which is what really matters.
These people are rich, so they can make the investment, but want a future for your children that you think will be better in America.
In just two years, the United States immigration authorities have processed applications for such visas 3.800 EB-5, which gives an idea of its popularity.
Is this a case that is rewarded with a green card in U.S. investment and job creation or simply a case of buying a permanent residence card at a very expensive?