News about U.S. immigration-eyed investment option

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News about U.S. immigration-eyed investment option

In fiscal year 2011 ending Sept. 30, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received 2,969 immigration petitions from Chinese entrepreneurs eying residency through the Immigrant Investor Program, known in short as "EB-5".

With an investment of 500,000 or more U.S. dollars, successful EB-5 visa applicants, passing strict background checks for verifying wealth sources, may first gain conditional Green Cards, then see the conditions removed in two years before they choose to become U.S. citizens in five years. Spouses and children, accompanying Green Card holders, are authorized to work or attend schools in the U.S.

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