Every potential B-5 investor and their family have their own requirements as to exactly when they wish to obtain their green cards and legally enter the USA. You will have your own idea of a target date.
You may need to sell your home and or business before beginning the process or you may wish to leave at a particular time that is best for your children’s education, everyone has their own priorities.
The actual application process, once you have decided on a regional center program, is really set by USCIS (The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service). Depending on USCIS workload applications have taken as little as three months and as long as nine months. You may also have to take into account the time for Consular processing which will vary depending on which country you live in.
A factor which can make a big difference to the time it takes can be the particular program you chose to invest in. To understand why this it is so critical we will take a look at examples of what can happen.
It will be seen from these examples that the choice of both the regional center, as well as the immigration attorney, can make a big difference to the time it takes you to obtain your visa. Choosing the most appropriate regional center program and attorney is extremely important.
In tomorrow’s blog we will look at two examples of mistakes made by EB-5 visa applicants.
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