The Location of The New Commercial Enterprise in a Regional Center

There is a pilot program for an EB-5 visa that provides for different job creation rules if the immigrant investor makes his or her investment in a new commercial enterprise located within a “regional center.” The pilot program is called the “Immigrant Investor Pilot Program,” with indirect job creation rules. A “regional center” is defined as follows:

Regional center means any economic unit, public or private, which is involved with the promotion of economic growth, including increased export sales, improved regional productivity, job creation, and increased domestic capital investment.

Taken from USCIS Policy Memorandum regarding EB-5 Adjudications Policy on November 9, 2011.