US Immigration Podcast

13: Adel Elmankabady: Working with EB-5 Regional Centers

US Immigration Podcast

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Adel has twenty years of sales, managing, marketing, and real estate teaching experience in the USA and the Middle East markets. He is a Real Estate Investment Specialist with unsurpassed level of marketplace knowledge in our local Atlanta Market. He is also been part of six EB-5 Investment Projects in Georgia.

In this episode you will hear:

The increasing number of EB-5 Regional Centers

The four documents needed to create n EB-5 Regional Centers

Private Placement Memorandum

Subscription Agreement

Limited Partnership Agreement

Escrow Agreement

The advantages of working with an established Regional Center for your EB-5 project

Leverage preexisting approval by USICS (saves time)

Leverage Marketing scope of the EB-5 Regional Centers

How to approach an EB-5 Regional Centers for your EB-5 program proposal

Experience of business owner

Personal Equity of business owner (and other domestic source of funds)

The EB-5 fund raise target

The total amount of project funding

Direct Job creation

Indirect Job creation by a third party (such as EB-5 Economist like Dr. Fernandez from Ep. 7)

The risks and pitfalls of EB-5 projects

Adel also shares with us:

The best advice he has ever received: Do you homework and do the steps in order

His personal habits that attributes to his success: Exercise (give the brain a break and work out the body)

Parting Thoughts: There are no short cuts and producing real value is not inexpensive

Additional Resource: We touched on the payback of EB-5 investors, but not how.

Here is a popular article I wrote last year on 10 Payback Strategies for EB-5 Investors

For a limited time, Adel is offering a free, 30 minute consultation for anyone seeking his firm's immigration services. To take advantage of this offer, please contact him through the form on our show notes page. Show Notes:

http://usimmigrationpodcast.com/13

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