Are all EB-5 Visa Regional Centers Equal?

Regional Centers can be created by private individuals or corporations who decide how they wish to operate their Regional Center.

Privately created Regional Centers are not controlled or supervised by any independent authority other than the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.

State Operated Regional Centers

The State of Vermont Regional Center is unique in the fact that it is the ONLY State Government owned and operated Regional Center in the USA. All other designated Regional Centers are either owned and operated by private corporate entities, they may have a local or State Government affiliation but are operated by a private corporation.

The chart below explains the advantages of choosing an EB-5 Visa project in the State of Vermont Regional Center:

All of the EB-5 visa projects that a prospective EB5 investor may look at are privately owned and administered, what that prospective EB-5 investor might want to consider is who is reviewing that project to determine the project is following USCIS guideline?

A Regional Center cannot protect your investment nor can they provide any kind of indemnity but what a Regional Center can provide is continual EB-5 compliance through initial review to determine that a project is suitable to be offered as an EB-5 investment opportunity then continued monitoring when project activities commence.

Approved State of Vermont Regional Center projects have a "Memorandum-of-Understanding" (MOU) that creates an agreement between the State Government and the private corporation that will be promoting and administering the project. The MOU provides that a project will governed under the applicable laws in the State of Vermont and that project will comply with USCIS requirement.