The EB5 visa for a US Green Card (permanent residency) by investing into the most popular Government approved Regional Center

You and your immediate family can now obtain green cards (Permanent US Residency) with an EB5 visa by investing $500,000 into a Government approved Regional Center. It will give each of you the security of permanent US residence without repeated visa applications. Citizenship may be obtained after five years.

With a Green Card via an EB5 investment visa you will have the flexibility to take any job, run any business, retire and live anywhere in the USA. You will have access to many of the benefits enjoyed by US citizens, such as education and in States such as Florida you will enjoy substantial savings in property tax. 
Enjoy an American Life with an American Green Card.

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For more Regional Center investment and EB5 visa information call our London office on (0)20 3008 2490 or complete the simple online registration for our latest brochure.
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More than 90 per cent of British EB5 investors choose American Life.
Why is that?

• Our investments are straightforward - Freehold commercial properties with no debt, good income and capital growth prospects.
• We are the longest established Regional Center.
• We attract almost as many immigrant investors as all the other Regional Centers combined.
• Almost half our investors are US citizens who invest on identical terms.
• Bank interest is paid to investors, usually monthly.
• Rental income of approximately 5 per cent net is paid to investors monthly.
• We have a 100 per cent success record with EB-5 visa processing.
• We have a 100 per cent success with Conditions’ Removal, some two years after emigrating.

Program Summary

A Green Card or Permanent Residency gives the holder the right to live and work anywhere in the US.
There are many visa categories. Some allow you to apply for a green card after you have been in the USA for a specific period but most do not. The EB5 visa is unusual in that it provides you with a green card at the outset. When you emigrate, you do so knowing that you and your immediate family have Permanent Residency. You may apply for citizenship after five years.

Work or retire, the choice is yours

The current legislation enables EB5 Regional Center investors to retire to the USA and provides families (parents and children under 21) with immigration security, eliminating the need and worry of reapplying, as with most other visa categories. It also provides the flexibility to live anywhere, take any job, own and operate any business and to change employment without restrictions.

The 2003 Regional Center investment legislation was introduced as a Pilot Program, which operates for five years and is due to terminate in September 2008. We are lobbying for an indefinite extension, without which retirement and permanent US residency  will no longer be available to many people.

American Life

American Life is a commercial property development and management company offering ‘EB5 qualifying’ investments in prime commercial real estate in Seattle, Washington State. Our investors, collectively, represent one of the City’s largest real estate portfolios.

Almost half the company’s investors are non-immigrants, typically US citizens living nearby and not needing a green card. We have been buying, developing and managing commercial property in Seattle for over a decade. We are highly regarded with a successful business model which appeals to resident Americans, usually for pension income, and which provides prospective immigrants with a safe, income bearing investment, as well as qualifying for permanent US residency.

We have the most established of the Regional Center investment programs and consistently attract EB5 visa investors because:

• We have a successful track record with approximately $400 million of property under management.
• Our properties are mortgage free, to maximise income and minimize risk.
• We distribute rental income monthly, providing investors with a typical return of 5% p.a.
• US citizens invest in our properties on identical terms. Most live nearby.
• We have an active sales operation to assist green card holders to sell their properties, when allowed to do so, after approximately three years.

We work alongside a number of specialist EB5 immigration attorneys. Our collective Regional Centre expertise has been a major factor in maintaining a 100 per cent success record in securing green cards for our immigrant investors.

American Life UK office
The popularity of the program in the UK prompted us to open our first European office in London in 2006.
The office is managed by Taroa Investment Company Limited, an international property investment company, which provides advice on the EB5 visa and our current property investments to citizens of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Richard Robinson looks after our UK investors and is available to ensure everyone is fully informed and looked after at each stage of the investment and immigration process.
If you have any questions, please contact Richard Robinson in our
UK office on (0)20 3008 2490 or e-mail
richard@eb5-visa.net.

EB5 Visa - 'The Investment Green Card'
The USCIS (the US Citizenship and Immigration Service) refers to this category as an Investment or Employment-based Green Card since it is based on an investment in a US business which will create at least ten US jobs.

The EB5 Visa provides a green card before you emigrate. The legislation does not require you to manage the day-to-day affairs of a business; you may invest in an existing or a new business; more than one person may invest and you may be a minority owner. You may live anywhere in the US, no matter where the investment is made, and are free to do whatever you wish, be it work, run a business or retire.

An EB5 visa has three different forms:

• Invest $1,000,000 into a business and hire ten employees anywhere in the USA, or
• Invest $500,000 and hire ten employees in an area where the unemployment rate exceeds the national average by 150% or the rural population is less than 20,000, or
• Invest $500,000 into a Government designated Regional Centre and avoid direct employment.

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EB5 visa and the 2003 Legislation

The EB5 visa, when it was introduced more than ten years ago, required a minimum $500,000 investment and the direct employment of ten US citizens. Additional legislation was introduced at the end of 2003, eliminating the need for direct employment when the investment is made into a Government designated Regional Center.
The use of a more passive Regional Center investment has transformed the popularity of the EB5 visa.  A UK family invests into one of our properties every week and, worldwide, every day.

The 2003 legislation was introduced as a Pilot Program, which operates for five years and is due to terminate on 30 September 2008. We are lobbying for an indefinite extension, without which retirement and permanent US residency  will no longer be possible for many people.

American Life uses an economist to quantify sufficient indirect employment before making  properties available to EB5investors. Our Regional Center is certified as a high unemployment area which keeps the minimum required capital to $500,000.
Funds for investment
Funds may come from any legal foreign or US source; including gifts, loans, executive pension funds (SIPPS), trusts and divorce settlements. Whoever receives the visa must make the investment. Borrowed investment funds qualify as long as they are not secured by the assets of the target US investment.
The basic rules are summarized on the USCIS web site at:  http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis and by typing ‘investment’ into the search box, then clicking on ‘Immigration through Investment’.

Decision-making Process

Timescale
After you have invested and your attorney has submit your visa application, EB5 visa processing is taking approximately 9 months. Processing times vary and we advise that, for planning important issues such as children’s schooling, it is best to allow 12 months.
The minimum period of the investment is approximately three years.  Once you have emigrated you may apply to have ‘conditions’ removed after 1 year and 9 months in the USA.  Processing takes up to six months.
‘Conditions’ removal means that your investment is no longer tied to your visa.  You are now free to sell your investment.

Costs
Please be aware of all the costs:

• In addition to the minimum capital contribution of $500,000, American Life, which typically sells its properties to each Limited Partnership at cost, requires a fee of $25,000 to cover a variety of formation and marketing expenses. These expenses must not be a part of the minimum capital contribution of $500,000.
• The $25,000 is paid to the Limited Partnership, as a part of your capital contribution.
• The agency advisory fee to Taroa Investment Company is $10,000, due upon the investment being made.
• Legal fees vary according to the work involved but are unlikely to exceed $15,000.
• The EB5 visa filing fee, payable to the USCIS, is $1.435 per applicant family.
• The fee to the NVC (National Visa Center) is $380 per applicant.
• Medical examinations are $145 for each adult and $125 for children under 15.

The total fees for a family of two adults and a child under 15 will total approximately $53.000.

Steps before investing
1. In order to receive a prospectus for an American Life EB5 related investment, it is an FSA (Financial Services Authority) requirement that you qualify as an eligible investor.
You may certify on this website.  To view the Certification forms along with explanatory notes, please click here.
2. Contact Richard Robinson in London on (0)20 3008 2490 to discuss Certification or any other questions you may have, or to arrange a meeting.
Meetings are informal question and answer discussions where you can discover more about the company's properties as well as information on the EB5 and other visa categories. Meetings are free of charge.
3. Treat this as you would any other significant investment and seek independent professional advice.
4. Review our list of frequently asked questions.
5. Talk to other EB5 visa applicants who have secured green cards. Contact details will be available when we meet.
6. Consider a trip to Seattle to visit the Regional Center, see the properties and meet our tenants and staff.
7. If you wish to secure a place in a specific property you may do so with a deposit of $50,000. This will secure your place for up to 90 days by which time you must fund the balance. If you wish to emigrate as soon as possible, fund the $525,000 to enable your green card visa petition to be prepared and submitted.