Top 5 EB-5 Regional Centers For 2024?

If you’re viewing this article, you are probably either a prospective EB-5 immigrant investor or an immigration consultant / agent that is researching what the top EB-5 Regional Centers are so that you or a client can receive a US green card while making the most secure investment possible.  Our experience has been that most Regional Centers that are still around are pretty good at what they do and likely to succeed.  However, there have been lots of Regional Centers in the past that are no longer around and failed.  And, when Regional Centers fail on a project, they fail incredibly big.  Dozens if not hundreds of EB-5 investors not only lose their $800,0000 – $1,050,000 investment, but they usually don’t get a green card either.

Here at Lead PPC, we’re primarily in the franchising space.  We’ve been around since 2010 and we work with around 100 franchise brands doing franchise development lead generation and franchise sales.  With time, we’ve also gotten to the point that we buy quite a few franchise concepts from among our client base that we fall in love with and really like.  So, we own quite a few franchises.  We’ve become huge fans of the EB-5 and E-2 programs and some of the franchises that we own are jointly owned with EB-5 migrant investors.

It’s been our experience that when done correctly investing in a franchise via EB-5 or E-2 can oftentimes be less risky and provide a higher ROI than the small returns and high risk situations offered by many Regional Centers.  If you’d like to have a conversation with us to see if we might be good partners for you to do an EB-5 direct investment into a franchise, feel free to reach out to us via our Contact Us form or our eb5franchising.com website.

Having said all of this, here’s our take on who the Top 10 EB-5 Regional Centers are from our perspective (obviously do your own research):

#1 – American Lending Center

American Lending Center (ALC) operates multiple Regional Centers throughout the United States which covers all 48 contiguous states.  ALC has fully financed 80+ EB-5 investment projects in 19 different states with EB-5, contributed to a combined construction budget of over one billion dollars, and successfully created more than 12,000 full time jobs nationwide which is pretty impressive to say the least.  Even more impressive is that ALC has a 100% project completion rate and a 100% approval rate for all immigration petitions filed.  For this reason, ALC is #1 on our list.

#2 – Manhattan Regional Center

The team at Manhattan Regional Center is one of the sharpest, kindest group of people that I’ve met in the EB-5 space.  Their COO Alvin Wong especially is dynamite and has an especially good grasp on the Southeast Asia market including everything from Hong Kong to mainland China to Taiwan to Vietnam and beyond.  The Manhattan Regional Center received its approval from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in 2011 and they really focus on their core values of transparency, experience, and success.  Some of their current projects include a $98.4M EB-5 raise for their Manhattan 11th Avenue Marriott Tribute Portfolio Hotel Project in upper Manhattan and a $254.9M EB-5 raise for their 2 tower Utopia Living Residential Project in Queens, NY.

#3 – HomeFed

Number 3 on my list primarily does residential real estate development.  One of their current projects that I think is super interesting is a $900M residential build in Chula Vista, CA near San Diego called “Côta Vera“.  I have several brothers-in-law that are surfers and live in California, and this truly is a remarkably beautiful neighborhood and community that is being built.  It sits on 868 acres and will have 2,700+ homes and 2,100+ apartments.  One thing to look for in Regional Centers when you are trying to reduce your risk is how far along various projects are.  This one already has quite a few homes built and is in the later stages of overall development.

#4 – EB5 United

One of the things that has impressed me about Brennan Sim and the rest of the team at EB5 United is their ability to deliver on their promises even when issues arise during the construction of various projects.  EB5 United is tenacious and does what it takes to make sure that their projects succeed.  The 2 current projects that EB5 United is focusing on are Yellowstone Club’s Big Spring Village Phase 2 in Big Sky, MT and Lakefront Estates & Villas Okeechobee in Glades County, FL.

#5 – GreenCardFund

Coming in at #5 on our list is GreenCardFund.  These guys are a bit smaller, but they’re working on some cool projects near the Grand Canyon, AZ as well as projects in Glacier National Park, MT and Yosemite National Park, CA.  If you’re looking to invest in an EB-5 project that isn’t in a city center and isn’t a strictly residential project, these would be some good ones to take a glance at.

 

Interested In Working With Us?

While we are newer to the EB-5 and E2 franchising space, we are veterans within franchising in general.  Our ad agency Lead PPC has worked with hundreds of franchise brands, has helped sell close to 2,000 franchises, and we also own quite a few franchises ourselves.  We like EB-5 and E2 migrant investors because it allows us to scale more quickly, and it provides a long-term win win for the migrant investor with much lower risk and potentially a much higher ROI than what you can get from large projects via Regional Centers.

If you’re interested in learning more, please fill out our Contact Us form or visit our website EB5Franchising.com.