{"id":45638,"date":"2022-07-12T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/wordpress\/?p=45638"},"modified":"2022-07-13T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:18:25","slug":"uscis-releases-new-form-i-526e-eb-5-regional-center-investor-initial-green-card-application-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/uscis-releases-new-form-i-526e-eb-5-regional-center-investor-initial-green-card-application-form\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Releases New Form I-526E: EB-5 Regional Center Investor Initial Green Card Application Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"why\">New EB-5 Investor Form I-526E is Expanded with New Required EB-5 Investor and Regional Center Disclosures<\/h3>\n<p>On July 12, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (\u201cUSCIS\u201d) released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/forms\/i-526e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form I-526E<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Immigrant Petition by Regional Center Investor<\/em>. This new form replaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/forms\/i-526.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form I-526<\/a>, <em>Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur<\/em>, which had been the prior individual EB-5 investor petition for both regional center and direct EB-5 investors. Instructions for the new Form I-526E can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/forms\/i-526einstr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Form I-526E form has been expanded and can now only be used for EB-5 investors who select EB-5 regional center sponsored investment projects. We expect USCIS to issue a new separate form for future direct EB-5 investors.<\/p>\n<p>Form I-526E requires additional information about the sponsoring regional center, including the receipt number of a previously filed <a href=\"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/2022\/06\/03\/uscis-releases-new-form-i-956f-for-eb-5-project-requests\/\">Form I-956F project form<\/a> and bona fide information on the EB-5 investor since he\/she is now involved in the EB-5 program as an owner of the NCE and indirect investor in the JCE.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosures about the EB-5 investor&#8217;s net worth, sources of capital for the EB-5 investment, and a breakdown of all &#8220;administrative costs and fees&#8221; are now present in the Form I-526E. The EB-5 investor must also answer questions about prior work authorization and compliance with United States immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the Form I-526E includes a new &#8220;amendment&#8221; section, indicating that Form I-526E may also be used by EB-5 investors who had previously invested in a troubled EB-5 project and now need to amend their initial I-526 petition given the termination of their EB-5 project&#8217;s NCE, JCE or EB-5 regional center.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the new Form I-526E will require EB-5 immigration attorneys to spend more time gathering information and documents in order to prepare their client&#8217;s initial EB-5 investment applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New EB-5 Investor Form I-526E is Expanded with New Required EB-5 Investor and Regional Center Disclosures On July 12, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (\u201cUSCIS\u201d) released Form I-526E,\u00a0Immigrant Petition by Regional Center Investor. This new form replaces Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, which had been the prior individual EB-5 investor petition for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"about-us":[],"eb-5-program-page":[],"class_list":["post-45638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45638"},{"taxonomy":"about-us","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/about-us?post=45638"},{"taxonomy":"eb-5-program-page","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb5visainvestments.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eb-5-program-page?post=45638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}