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One of the top reasons foreign nationals choose the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is to give their children the best educational opportunities possible.
According to U.S. News and World Report, of the top 10 ‘Best Global Universities’, eight are in the USA. In fact, the first four are all American Universities.
Here are the rankings:
1. Harvard University
USA
Cambridge, MA
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
Cambridge, MA
3. Stanford University
USA
Stanford, CA
4. University of California, Berkeley
USA
Berkeley, CA
5. University of Oxford
UK
Oxford
6. California Institute of Technology
USA
Pasadena, CA
7. University of Cambridge
UK
Cambridge
8. Columbia University
USA
New York, NY
9. Princeton University
USA
Princeton, NJ
10. University of Washington
USA
Seattle, WA
It’s not just universities that EB-5 parents are after, however. According to Prep Review, 73 of the top 100 private high schools in the World are located in the USA. Furthermore, the top 18 of these are all American.
Why the EB-5 visa over other visa categories?
If the dream is to send your children to top U.S. schools, choosing the EB-5 visa program will allow your children to not only study at a prestigious educational institute, but it will allow them to pursue careers at top U.S. firms afterward. Other visa categories do not allow students on visas to work while studying or work after completing their studies.
Once your children have lived in the U.S. studied at top U.S. schools, they will not want to up and leave simply because their studies ended. But that’s how other visa categories work. The EB-5 visa, however, is different. Once the principal EB-5 investor has completed the program requirements they can apply to remove the conditions on their green cards, allowing them, and their immediate family members, to stay in the U.S. Additionally, five years after obtaining conditional permanent residency, the EB-5 principal investor and their immediate family may be eligible for U.S. citizenship.
The EB-5 Program gives investor’s children the best chances at success:
- Children of an EB-5 dependent get all the benefits of the EB-5 Program without any of the work. They can spend their time focusing on their studies instead of worrying about renewing their student visa.
- The EB-5 investor and their family can live, work, travel and attend school anywhere in the U.S. They are not tied down to living near their investment project’s location, if they choose the Regional Center Program route.
- Children of the EB-5 investor do not have to leave the country once they finish their studies. They can do what they intended all along, get a job in their chosen career path in the U.S. They won’t need an employer sponsor and they won’t need specific degrees.
- Living in the U.S. with an EB-5 visa will open up the possibility of benefiting from in-state tuition fees, so while you have to invest $500,000 in the EB-5 investment, you can make up for it in other ways such as reduced tuition costs.
- No deadline for having to leave the United States means that the EB-5 investor and his or her family can invest in real estate or purchase personal property in the U.S. without the fear of having to sell it when the visa expires and potentially lose money depending on the current market rate.
- If the EB-5 investor’s children are at risk for aging out of the EB-5 Program, they can always be a principal investor. Parents can gift children money so that they can apply for the program on their own.
In conclusion, the EB-5 visa can offer foreign nationals and their families the American Dream.
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