EB-5 Investments are broken into two categories: a direct investment into a business, or an investment into a federally approved Regional Center.  The direct investment is just that – an investment within a company.  The other subset of the EB-5 program is for those visas granted through use of a Regional Center.  A Regional Center is defined as "any economic unit, public or private, which is involved with the promotion of economic growth, including increased export sales, improved regional productivity, job creation, or increased domestic capital investment."  Up to 3,000 of the 10,000 EB-5 visas are set aside to immigrant investors who apply through Regional Centers.  Congress passed a five-year extension of the EB-5 Regional Center program in November of 2003.

CMB is a federally designated Regional Center and has the application process with the USCIS.  In this rigorous application process, CMB explained the entire business plan of its Regional Center and set forth a specific geographic area within the United States.

With this approval by the USCIS, the CMB Regional Center has much greater power in creating jobs through the pooling of investor funds.  Such aggregation of investor capital can have the greatest impact on a local economy in terms of creating jobs.  Since Regional Centers are allowed to utilize both direct and indirect job creation to support the investor’s requirement of generation a minimum of ten American jobs, it is easier to prove this level of job creation.  Simply stated, CMB as a Regional Center is a more powerful entity for an applicant to prove job creation.

Investing through our Federally-designated Regional Center offers the most expeditious means for the EB-5 Investor.  The Regional Center status of CMB presents several advantages for Investors.  Since qualified investments filed through regional centers only have to show indirect job creation, it is easier to ensure that when the USCIS asks our clients to prove job creation (after filing the I-829) the job proof is there.  Investors in the CMB Regional Center do not have to have day-to-day management responsibility because of the use of the limited partnership structure.  Working with our government reuse agencies at each former military base will provide proof of job creation using multiplier statistics and economic forecasts as well as demonstrating from our past investments those multipliers and statistics are reliable. 

The Regional Center designation is what makes the CMB investment relatively simple for those seeking a low-risk investment without the time-consuming issues of day-to-day management.  Additionally, the overall plan of a Regional Center is considered before an applicant is approved by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.  Regional Center designation provides a reasonable assurance that the business plan will meet the Immigration Act objectives if the submitted business plan is followed.

CMB is unique among all other Regional Centers and individual EB-5 programs.  CMB is a federally designated Regional Center that structures much of its investment opportunities with governmental agencies.  The funds are invested within those agencies; therefore the government agencies are the responsible party to repay the investment. This type of investing is not without risk; however the risk is minimal. Nearly all of the government agencies are joint powers authorities with the cities, counties, and state of California as participants.  They have the powers to create bonds and receive tax increment financing.  This safety of CMB’s investment is paramount to our goal of obtaining the green card and return of the original capital for our investors. 

Furthermore, we have the partnership of these same governmental agencies when we, along with you the investor, are required to prove the creation of ten American jobs. The entire Regional Center is considered when proving job growth.  A particular project may not create the desired job growth yet another may create more than its ten per investor.  We are allowed to look at the entire Regional Center job growth not just a single project.  In contrast, other immigrant investor programs (those which are not Regional Centers) are restricted to particular projects for proof of job growth.  

Proving the jobs is paramount to getting your EB-5 Visa.  CMB understands the permanent visa (green card) is the ultimate goal.