No. Determine the investor’s actual available and qualifying capital after obligations and ownership interests are accounted for. Then assess the chosen investment and all EB-5 requirements.
Follow the net amount rather than the advertisement
The general current threshold is US$1.05 million, or US$800,000 for a qualifying reduced-threshold project. A property valuation or gross price does not establish an investment at risk, ten qualifying full-time jobs per investor or lawful ownership of the transferred money.
Financial information may support the business analysis while leaving lawful source, job methodology or investor participation unresolved. Map every name to a legal role before transferring capital: the new commercial enterprise, any job-creating entity, regional center, manager, escrow holder, and branded project. The enterprise generally must create ten full-time jobs for qualifying US workers; the investor, spouse, and children do not count, and nonimmigrant workers are not made qualifying merely by employment permission. The first review should identify the agreement clause that gives the investor management or policy rights, the source-and-path records for capital, and the job methodology that applies to that structure. If the closing payment, after tax and after distribution from the holding company, does not reach the applicable amount, the investor needs other documented assets or a later filing date.