How can a potential EB-5 investor provide five years of income tax receipts if they only recently started a business?

The age is not relevant. If your business has not existed for 5 years, you are required to show business tax returns only from the date it was legally formed to present. Personal income tax returns may be submitted for the full five years unless you were not required to file personal income tax returns which may be documented by a local accountant or tax attorney. Certain countries do not require personal income tax return filings and employers are required to file for employees instead and provide them with W-2 like forms that would demonstrate income and taxes withheld and paid to applicable tax authorities. Please contact an experienced EB-5 immigration attorney such to discuss the details of your case.

If you do not have it and have legitimate reasons for not having it, that is fine. You need to explain to USCIS. Your immigration attorney will do this.

If you were not required to file tax returns for the last five years, then you need to explain such as part of the confirmation of legal funds. This is a sophisticated process and requires legal counsel.

Five years'' income tax receipts are not necessary. Only when your source of funds comes from your business income, then your business''s tax records will be relevant. Please consult an experienced EB-5 attorney about the documents that you will need to provide.

It is a fundamental component of the EB-5 program that the investor establish the lawful source of funds. Tax returns are used as a form of evidence to show that the money was acquired lawfully. If you have not been earning an income for five years, it can be presumed that the money was gifted to you and we must show that the grantor of the gift acquired the source funds legally. Therefore, the grantor''s tax returns and other evidence of source of funds may be needed. Age and lack of experience is an issue, but it can be overcome with appropriate evidence. For more information please schedule a consultation to go over your immigration options.

The USCIS requires information and documentation to show the lawful source of funds regardless of the number of years it took to accumulate.

No, age does not affect EB-5 approval. Income tax receipts are just one way of demonstrating proof of capital or source of funds. Besides, that requirement asks for returns filed within five years, not five years'' worth of returns. Providing what recent records/returns you have filed within the last five years is satisfactory. Other forms of proof include bank statements, evidence of purchased assets, business registration records, etc. - the list is not exhaustive, and there are myriad acceptable documents and ways to show proof.

You cannot submit what you do not have. Provide the years you have, along with an explanation. Your age should not affect your application.

The regulatory requirement is not for five years of income tax returns; the requirement is to prove that the invested funds were lawfully obtained. Showing five years of tax returns is but one way listed in the regulations to show how the invested capital was lawfully obtained. There are other ways listed, and comparable evidence or other evidence showing the lawful accumulation of income may be submitted. The age of the investor does not affect EB-5 approval. As long as the investor is of legal age to sign the documents, the investor may apply for EB-5 classification.

Do you mean personal tax returns as part of the authentication of your source of funds, or tax returns for the business that will be the EB-5 project? You need to be able to authenticate your source of investment funds, and tax returns are a decent way to do so in addition to salary statements, proof of sale of property or assets, etc. For the business, you need to show it will be able to support the creation of 10 jobs. Since the business is to be created, a business plan and financial projections will be needed, but probably not tax returns. Rumors and misinformation are, unfortunately, all too prevalent in the EB-5 area, so retain experienced EB-5 counsel to assist you.

Were you named on your parents'' tax returns? You could show that or a letter from your accountant that you were not required to file taxes prior to this year.

You will not need to provide five years of income tax receipts for a new business. You will need to provide a comprehensive business plan. The age of the investor should not affect the adjudication.

Your age does not matter. The key issue is the source of funds for the investment. If you cannot show five years of tax returns and your funds are coming from your business, show bank statements and other evidence of how you obtained the funds for the investment. Or if the funds are a gift, show evidence of the income of the person making the gift.

Five years of tax returns are not mandatory. You have to show the source of funds you are using for your EB-5 investment. It can be an inheritance or sale of substantial asset. Or if you earned all that money in one year, that will be sufficient.

If you just started your business and have made either a $500,000 or $1 million required invested fund, you will only need to provide whatever years your business has been in operation. You do not have to provide all five years.

Age is not an issue as you are an adult. However, in order to show that you are qualified a EB-5 investor, you need to show that you have the income or net assets required. Please note that EB-5 investment is $1 million or $500,000 if located in TEA or rural area as an exception to the $1 million rule. Just relocating a business does not qualify. If you are trying to relocate your start-up business, you may think of doing a L-1 route and set up a subsidiary of your foreign business and operate it for few years instead of EB-5.