How can a real estate developer also be an individual EB-5 investor?

There are separate rules about how to qualify as an EB-5 investor and what needs to be done to obtain a regional center designation from the USCIS. Under the current law, there is no rule prohibiting an EB-5 investor from also being a project developer.

Does your client already have permission to work in the United States under another visa category? Or will he be working with the local regional center, from overseas, during the development of the project? Anyway, if he is investing 80 percent of the funds needed to develop the regional center project, then I know of no reason why he could not qualify as an investor for EB-5 purposes.

I see no problem with this arrangement. An investor may put in 100 percent of the investment and develop the project by himself if he wished.

This is doable; however, it needs to be properly structured.

Yes the investor/developer can participate in the EB-5 program. However, the investor/developer has an option to be a direct investor instead of buying a subscription through a regional center. It depends on his preference and the business arrangement between him and the regional center.

I think the harder part will be to find a regional center who will be willing to work with a single-investor project, but I do not see why a single-investor project would not work in a regional center context otherwise.