If you have decided to get into the United States using an eb5 green card, you can either select an area of your choice for a $1 million investment, or a Targeted Employment area for $500,000. If you choose the latter, you have about 50 areas to choose from in the country. Consider the benefits of one of those centers, called the Imperial Regional Center in Southern California. Like any other Regional Center, this one requires that you invest $500,000 in a new company, or increase the net worth of an existing company by 40 percent. You must also gain jobs for at least ten U. S. citizens or approved immigrant workers. The company behind the Imperial Regional Center, Pacificland International Development, Inc. , or PID, has high hopes for the area that you will be assisting them with once you receive your eb5 green card. Your money will help the economy of the Targeted Employment Area inside the Heber region. The opportunities available through the Imperial Regional Center mainly involve retail. The objective is to boost the economy through six industries, including wholesale shopping areas, retail shopping centers, dining locations, hospitality centers, entertainment complexes, and performance venues. Your investment will assist in developing, operating, and managing these new businesses in Imperial County. Heber is an unincorporated Targeted Employment Area within Imperial County. It has this title due to its rural status and higher than average unemployment rates. If you agree to put your investment to work here, you will not need to directly hire ten new employees. Instead, you can show that your new business indirectly resulted in the hiring of at least ten people, whether you participated in the hiring process or not. In order to get your eb5 green card at the Imperial Regional Center, you will need to show U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, a copy of your approval letter once your funds have been verified. Additionally, you will need the center's business plan for its project, the method in which you will create ten or more jobs, limited partnership agreement, subscription agreement, and escrow agreement. In order to stay in good standing, the Imperial Regional Center will need to monitor and record its activities and those of its immigrant investors, so be prepared to help document how your investment is a benefit to the area. At this Regional Center, you will focus on providing the area with businesses related to retail, restaurant, entertainment, hospitality, and cultural interests. This might include parks, recreational areas, lighted walkways, shopping centers, movie theaters, parking structures, hotels, bars, art galleries, outlet stores, outdoor stages, rivers, and more. Overall, your job could include anything that will benefit the area and help it prosper, so be sure to include such objectives in your business plan to get your eb5 green card.
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This is an issue very much in focus in recent times mainly because of a perceivable shift in standards of adjudication adopted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  A near-panic has been caused among people with the so-called âthree yearâ degrees by the denial of a number of employment-based petitions by USCIS in recent times. In several countries (especially of the British Commonwealth), one can get a bachelorâs degree after a total of 15 years of schooling, either as 12 years higher secondary and a three year degree, or in some instances, with a 10+2+3 program.  People holding such bachelorâs degrees are lately finding it hard to obtain employment-based immigrant visas in the U. S. through the Employment-Based third preference (EB-3) âprofessionalâ jobs.  Professional jobs are defined as those that need a bachelorâs degree as the entry level requirement. Bachelorâs degrees in the U. S. are generally granted after a total of 16 years of schooling, i. e. , 12 years up until High School and four years of college.   So when an employer processes a Labor Certification for an employment-based âgreen cardâ in a professional occupation (i. e. , with the requirement of a U. S. Bachelorâs degree or its foreign equivalent), the assumption is that of a foreign bachelorâs degree that is comparable to a U. S. bachelorâs degree.  Until recently, this could be achieved using the experience equivalency evaluation. That is, a bachelorâs degree equivalency could be obtained by substituting three years of work experience for one year of academic education.  So, a person with a three year degree (obtained after a total of 15 years of schooling) could be evaluated as having the equivalent of a U. S. bachelorâs degree if he/she had three years of work experience in a related field.   Technically, this could be applied to a situation even where the person had a 12 year high school (or, in some countries, pre-university or pre-degree) diploma and 12 years of experience, he/she would qualify as the holder of a US equivalent BS degree.  It is understood that a huge number of cases have been approved over the years using this standard. But recent decisions by the USCIS show a totally different trend.   Immigrant Visa petitions are being denied by the USCIS for the lack of a âsingleâ four-year degree.  To quote from such a denial, ââ¦the regulation at 8 CFR 204. 5 (l)(3)(ii)(C) is clear in allowing only for the equivalency of one foreign degree to a United States baccalaureate, not a combination of degrees, diplomas, or employment experience. There is no comparable provision to substitute a combination of degrees, work experience, or certificates which when taken together equals the same amount of coursework required for a US baccalaureate degreeâ¦â But, as far as processing of H-1B petitions go, the above 3-for-1 formula is still adopted.  H1B visas are non-immigrant work visas granted by USCIS to a foreign national to live and work in the United States for a temporary period in a specialty occupation, i. e. , an occupation that requires a minimum of a U. S. bachelor's degree or equivalent. Disclaimer: The information in the above article is of a general nature only and should not be taken as legal advice. Always seek professional legal advice before proceeding with your case. Copyright: The Law Offices of Morley J. Nair, Inc. Â
Morley J. Nair is the Founder of The Law Offices of Morley J. Nair, located in Philadelphia, PA, practicing Immigration Law in all the 50 states. The firm has processed thousands of H-1Bs and hundreds of Applications for Permanent Residence (“Green Cards”). The firm websites are www. visaworks. com and www. h1bplanet. com
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