No. The requirement is generally at least ten qualifying permanent full-time jobs per investor. A headline total does not demonstrate the correct allocation or method for all petitions.
Ask how the particular case is supported
Distinguish jobs actually qualifying under the relevant route from general staffing publicity. Each investor must also establish the required lawful at-risk capital and engagement. Do not multiply a project’s single employment figure across participants without examining the evidence and applicable counting rules.
Job creation is the purpose of the programme: at least ten full-time positions for qualifying American workers, evidenced directly where the investor controls the business and, in a regional centre case, partly through permitted indirect and induced methodologies. For a targeted employment area claim, the basis is usually a designation resting on identified statistical data for a defined area; for an infrastructure claim, it is the statutory description applied to the project's actual contracting arrangements with a governmental entity. Counsel and a qualified valuer can assess the proposed contribution and remaining capital need; neither an appraisal nor permission to export alone proves that the enterprise receives the claimed qualifying value.
- USCIS — EB-5 investor program
- USCIS — business and investment visa overview
- USCIS — Child Status Protection Act
- Department of State — Visa Bulletin
- USCIS — fee schedule
- Current EB-5 capital and eligibility statute — 8 USC 1153(b)(5)
- USCIS — I-829 instructions
- Direct qualifying employees and full-time positions