U.S. EB-5 Regional Centers extend a helping hand to fellow North American Immigration Consultants

Both the United States and Canada have immigrant investor programs. In the United States, the program is called the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa program. In Canada, the program is simply the Immigrant Investor program. While the details of each program vary, there exists as slight a similarity between the two programs as there is between the two countries. Both programs have a job creation aspect to them and both require a significant capital investment amount in return for lawful permanent residency—citizenship.

Naturally, the appeal to the United States versus Canada is left to interpretation by the individual investor. Who, one might ask, may have the ability to influence the opinion of such investors? The answer is: none other than immigration consultants.

Immigration consultants generally help guide foreign national investors through the immigrant investor or EB-5 process. Unfortunately for Canadian immigration consultants, the Canadian government has enacted, and since reached, a quota limiting the number of immigrant investors receiving permanent residency status. Because of the rate at which this quota was reached, Canadian immigration consultants are left in a state of flux and panic in regards to their own employment. What are they to do with the large number of clients and foreign nationals looking to take advantage of immigrant investor programs? Consider the EB-5 Immigrant Investor program of the United States.

This is where the EB-5 Regional Centers of the United States come into play. The EB-5 Immigrant Investor program of the United States also has a Green Card quota. However, not once since the inception of the EB-5 program in 1990 has that EB-5 Visa quota been reached, or even tested.

While Canadian immigration consultants find themselves in the proverbial ‘Catch 22’, U.S. EB-5 Regional Centers are eager to lend their friends to the north a helping hand. By redirecting potential investors to the EB-5 program of the United States, the Canadian immigration consultants will find themselves with continued employment and the U.S. can inch closer to issuing its allotted number of EB-5 immigrant investor visas and permanent residency.

Without permanent residency to issue, Canadian immigration consultants have no product to offer to potential investors. Partnering with EB-5 Regional Centers gives Canada’s immigration consultants a total of 10,000 more potential visas and Green Cards to offer to their clients. Choosing to work with EB-5 Regional Centers and exercising the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa program before its sunset at the end of September gives Canadian immigration consultants the opportunity to earn commission on every single EB-5 investor that they refer to EB-5 Regional Centers.

By taking advantage of this unique opportunity to work together as North American neighbors, the EB-5 Regional Centers of the United States and the immigration consultants of Canada can take part in helping to rebuild the economy of and create jobs for the citizens of the world’s greatest nation which, in turn, will benefit economies and individuals the world over.