Salvatore Picataggio
Immigration Attorney
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You need to create 10 positions from the investment. Retained jobs may be ok if it were a troubled business.
What are the job requirements for direct EB-5 investments?
For EB-5 direct investments, do the 10 jobs need to be new jobs in addition to the existing jobs? I am thinking of a business where the seller of the business is looking to retire and the only way to keep the business open is through a sale.
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Belma Demirovic Chinchoy
Immigration AttorneyAnswered onThe only time 10 new positions do not have to be created is with distressed businesses. Existing businesses (as defined in the EB-5 regulations) may also be subject to additional requirements of net increases.
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Fredrick W Voigtmann
Immigration AttorneyAnswered onExisting jobs cannot be counted toward meeting the requirement to create 10 NEW fulltime positions. The only way existing jobs might be of value is if you invested in a "troubled business," which has a specific definition under the EB-5 laws/regulations.
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Bernard P Wolfsdorf
Immigration AttorneyAnswered onIt is very difficult to use EB-5 funds to buy an existing business. The government wants to see new jobs created, so unless this is a troubled business where you are saving 10 jobs, or there will be at least 10 new jobs created and the 40 percent rule satisfied, this will not work. The 40 percent increase is either in the net worth or in the number of employees, so that the new net worth—or number of employees—amounts to at least 140 percent of the pre-expansion net worth or number of employees.
