EB-5 Risk

Navigating the Risks and Realities of EB-5 Blind Investing

| February 14, 2024
Navigating the Risks and Realities of EB-5 Blind Investing In the world of investment, knowledge is not just power—it is security, assurance, and, above all, the foundation for making informed decisions that will impact your entire family's immigration status. Unfortunately, for many EB-5 investors, this critical foundation seems to be built more on false hope ...

USCIS EB-5 Notice of Proposed Rule Making – Potential Changes to the EB-5 Program

| April 16, 2017

USCIS creates Notice of Proposed Rule Making. The NPRM, available here, addresses several important policy issues including Targeted Employment Area (TEA) designation, minimum investment amounts, priority date retention, removal of conditions clarifications, and other miscellaneous changes. In addition to the proposed new regulations, the NPRM includes significant detail on the DHS policy making process, ranging …

What happens if there is an I-526 denial?

| February 17, 2017
A lot of investors always ask "what happens if something goes wrong" or "what happens if I get denied".  Typically, the answer is that the Berkeley Regional Center has return provisions in our offering documents but I did find this article which may be interesting to those asking the same question. The source is from ...

EB-5 Investment Returns: Why so cheap?

| March 11, 2016
Why does EB-5 investment offer such low returns to investors? EB-5 investment returns are dismal. Why is that? It's a common question asked to EB-5 regional centers by anyone trying to understand the EB-5 market. There are a few major reasons that stick out. I will refer to EB-5 projects that structure EB-5 investment as ...

EB-5 Changes: Leahy & Grassley EB-5 Bill Proposal

| June 4, 2015
EB-5 Changes for 2015 are Starting To Take Shape: EB-5 changes are in the midst for 2015 as the program expires on September 30,2015. in its current form. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have introduced S. 1501 (American Job Creation and Investment Promotion Reform Act of 2015), ...

EB-5 Project Requirements | Can EB-5 Projects Be Guaranteed?

| April 6, 2015
EB-5 Project Requirements | Can EB-5 Projects be Guaranteed? EB-5 project requirements and EB-5 project guarantees are topics that I see the internet completely abuse time and time again. Every EB-5 investor wants to see their EB-5 project have guarantees. In exchange for cheap capital, they want low risk. MANY groups in the EB-5 world will immediately say ...

EB-5 Hotel Projects: What to Know

| April 6, 2015

EB-5 Hotel Investments: Opportunities & Risk In the EB-5 industry, there are many opportunities to invest in hotels. Hotels employ many people and are a great investment for developers if done successfully. If not done correctly, hotels can be a nightmare constantly losing money and eventually forcing the developer to lose all its capital. For …

EB-5 Project Risk: Will my EB-5 project get denied by USCIS?

| March 5, 2015

The Berkeley Regional Center has received the same email question about EB-5 projects many times before: What is the chance that my EB-5 project will get denied? How to I avoid EB-5 project risk? Unfortunately, as with many things in EB-5 investment, the real answer is that “it depends”. My answer to you is that “Projects …