What percentage of the new business must the EB-5 applicant own?

There is no percentage ownership requirement, only a dollar amount ($500,000 or $1 million, under current laws and regulations), and job creation requirement.

There is no percentage limitation for the EB-5 investment in a business as long as the foreign investor's investment amount reaches $1 million, or $500,000 if the business is in a TEA. The business needs to create 10 new jobs.

There is no percentage requirement. The Statute provides that the the investor be an "active participant" in the enterprise. This is usually satisfied by making the investor a Limited Partner. The rule is one investor=10 jobs, no more or less.

There is no set percentage an EB-5 investor should or must own to qualify for the EB-5 immigrant investor petition. The requirement for EB-5 is to invest the requisite minimum capital ($500,000 in a TEA or $1 million) and create the requisite 10 full-time jobs. In order to meet the 10 job creation requirement for EB-5 purposes, each foreign national investor, by investing the requisite capital, must create the 10 jobs. It does not matter if the investor is either the majority or minority owner of the business.

45 percent is OK. Actually any percentage amount is OK. You only need to create 10 full-time jobs; the equity split does not matter.

There is no specific percentage required, but ten new jobs must be created for each EB-5 investor.

The EB-5 requirement is not how much percentage the EB-5 investor owns, but whether the investor has some control or policy-setting oversight of the company. In a small business, the reality may be that the decision making or policy direction could only be effectuated based on the percentage. Thus, it is up to you and your corporate attorneys to devise the role of the ownership and control that the EB-5 investor has in the policy direction-setting of the company. The creation of the 10+ jobs is dependent on the number of EB-5 investors. If you only have one EB-5 investor, the obligation of the business is to create a minimum of 10 jobs.

No fixed percentage required.