Question:
How does an EB-5 investor get paid? Who pays the investor back? Is it the developer or regional center who pays the investor? What is the process like?
Answers:
Please note under the EB-5 PROGRAM the EB-5 investor is investing their personal funds at risk. The EB-5 documentation cannot state that there will be a return or guarantee of any of the principal EB-5 investment funds back to the investor. Some EB-5 projects under a regional center program allow the investment funds to ultimately be loaned to the EB-5 PROJECT from the new commercial enterprise , and in this case there is an exit strategy for the repayment of those loan proceeds from the HeB-5 project to the new commercial enterprise which was the company that the foreign national investors first invested in.
The entity that the investor makes their investment, the new commercial enterprise, would provide any return on the investment. Please note that no project or regional center can guarantee the return of the investment principal!