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Q: In a case where the EB-5 business is a real estate development, which leases space to tenant businesses who then hire employees, does the following factor increase the likelihood that those tenant’s jobs can count toward satisfying the job requirements of the development’s EB-5 investors? The tenant business is a new business which did not merely move from another location.

A: This is not acceptable. None of the EB5 capital would be flowing to the jobs created by the tenant.

Taken directly from USCIS EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement on May 1, 2012.