EB-5 Pathway for Investors & Project Sponsors

International investors may contact Aimstone Capital to understand how EB-5 projects are generally structured and how project, regional center, legal, securities, and immigration workflows typically come together.

Where appropriate, Aimstone may help route investor inquiries to relevant project sponsors, regional centers, immigration counsel, securities counsel, broker-dealers, or other licensed professionals.

Aimstone Capital does not provide immigration advice, investment advice, securities recommendations, legal advice, tax advice, or guarantees regarding immigration outcomes, investment returns, project approval, or visa availability

Project owners, developers, and operators may contact Aimstone Capital if they are evaluating whether a real estate, infrastructure, healthcare, hospitality, or operating business project may be suitable for EB-5 capital.

Aimstone supports early-stage project screening, capital-readiness review, EB-5 structuring coordination, documentation workflow, and preparation for conversations with immigration counsel, securities counsel, regional centers, economists, broker-dealers, fund administrators, and investor-facing counterparties.

Our role is to help project sponsors become organized, capital-ready, investor-ready, counsel-ready, and execution-ready before the process accelerates.

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program allows eligible foreign investors to pursue U.S. permanent residence through an investment in a qualifying U.S. business or project that is expected to create the required number of U.S. jobs.

EB-5 is commonly used in real estate, infrastructure, hospitality, healthcare, senior living, manufacturing, and other job-creating business projects. Many investors participate through regional center-sponsored projects, while some projects may be structured as direct EB-5 investments depending on the facts and business plan.

Investment Amount

EB-5 generally requires a qualifying capital investment. The lower investment threshold may apply for projects located in a targeted employment area or qualifying infrastructure project, subject to current law and professional review.

Job Creation

The investment must support the required job creation under EB-5 rules. USCIS generally describes EB-5 as requiring a plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers. 

Source of Funds
Investors must document that their investment capital came from lawful sources. This often requires detailed financial, banking, tax, business, property, gift, loan, or asset-sale documentation reviewed by immigration counsel.

Project Documentation
EB-5 projects typically require coordinated documentation, including business plan materials, economic analysis, offering documents, regional center materials where applicable, construction or operating data, and investor-facing disclosure materials.

Immigration Process
The EB-5 process may involve an investor petition, conditional permanent residence, and a later petition to remove conditions. Timing depends on project category, country of chargeability, visa availability, USCIS adjudication, and individual facts.

Visa Availability
EB-5 visa availability can change. The Department of State Visa Bulletin controls whether immigrant visa numbers are available, and categories can become current, retrogressed, or unavailable depending on demand and annual limits. The June 2026 Visa Bulletin shows EB-5 reserved rural, high-unemployment, and infrastructure categories as current, while EB-5 unreserved China and India have cutoff dates. 

International investors often evaluate EB-5 because it may provide a pathway to U.S. permanent residence for the investor, spouse, and qualifying unmarried children under 21, subject to eligibility, adjudication, and visa availability.Potential benefits may include:

• Ability to live, study, work, and do business in the United States after becoming a lawful permanent resident 
• No need for employer sponsorship after permanent residence is granted 
• Access to U.S. education and career opportunities for qualifying family members 
• Potential pathway to U.S. citizenship after meeting applicable requirements 
• Ability to invest in a job-creating U.S. project while pursuing immigration objectives 

EB-5 is not risk-free. Investors should review immigration risk, project risk, securities risk, repayment risk, source-of-funds documentation, job-creation risk, timing risk, and visa-availability risk with qualified professionals. 

Aimstone Capital does not provide immigration advice, legal advice, investment advice, securities recommendations, tax advice, or project guarantees.

Aimstone may help organize early conversations among investors, project sponsors, regional centers, counsel, broker-dealers, economists, fund administrators, and other licensed professionals. Where appropriate, Aimstone may also help project sponsors prepare the business-side materials needed for EB-5 evaluation.