Increasing interest for EB5 Visa Investor Program

Historically, the EB5 Visa Investor Program has not been a popular immigration path to US.  However, within the last several years, interest in the program has increased dramatically.  In fact, 2014 was the first year since the program began in 1991 that USCIS issued all 10,000 EB5 visas that it was permitted to issue in a year.  Specialists in the field are predicting that this cap will be reached again in 2015, thus increasing the likelihood that this visa program will begin to experience a backlog.  The main reasons for increased attraction to EB5 are changes to the world’s economy and several financial collapses in the US in the last couple of years.  Funding for projects inside US were usually satisfied with investments from the local investors and bank loans.  These financing routes have closed after a series of financial disruptions, and US enterprises have started to seek funds for their projects from foreign sources.