Regional Centers in full blown panic mode as IMMIGRATION REFORM is dead and Regional Centers are all set to go out of business in the next year! Genuine Direct Investments are the ONLY safe option for EB-5 visa investors!

Regional Centers were set to lose their business licenses next year, as they are scheduled to sunset next year from the EB-5 visa program. Regional Centers were really hoping for immigration reform, as they hoped to get the regional center program extended. As it stands now, the entire immigration reform initiative is DEAD! (See link at http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-reform-deal-now-unlikely-until-after-obama-leaves-office-both-sides-say/2014/06/26/945d1210-fc96-11e3-b1f4-8e77c632c07b_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop)

In practical terms, what this means is that in a year from now, regional centers will be forced to cease operations. The ONLY real and safe option for EB-5 visa investors is to invest in a Genuine Direct Investment Business.

The FUNDAMENTAL questions each and every single regional center has to answer (but FAILS to answer) are: 

1. Are you LEGALLY offering and selling securities to EB-5 visa investors overseas? For instance, regional centers use immigration agents to market and sell securities in China or India, whereas Chinese and Indian securities laws require that SECURITIES offerings should only be done through licensed securities brokers ONLY and require approval of CSRC and SEBI respectively before being marketed to investors in China and India respectively.
2. Are you disclosing the fact that your regional center is illegally offering and selling securities to potential EB-5 visa investors? If a US issuer fails to disclose ALL material facts to an overseas investor, then they are basically committing SECURITIES FRAUD.
3. Have you disclosed the commission structures to EB-5 visa investors and are you ILLEGALLY offering commissions to immigration agents?

These are just some of the critical questions that EB-5 visa investors need to ask. I challenge anyone to show me even ONE regional center that has legally offered and sold securities overseas, as the simple fact is, regional centers do commit securities fraud, money laundering and other felonies on a regular basis. 

EB-5 visa seekers should remember that Genuine Direct Investment businesses are THE BEST option to get the EB-5 visa quickly, safely and usually profitably for the following reasons: 

1. Faster processing and approval times.
2. Easy exit strategy.
3. Investors usually get a much higher Return on Investment.
4. Investors usually get a much higher Capital gain, whereas regional center investors usually get capital losses.
5. Our clients have a 100% approval rate of I-526 and I-829, while those who choose regional centers or other partnerships don't.
6. Our clients have very little risk as we conduct extensive due diligence and work hard to prevent fraud and conflict of interest, whereas regional centers and partnerships are overrun with fraud and conflict of interest.
7. Full control of business and capital, which helps prevent fraud, conflict of interest and losses.

EB-5 visa investors need to remember that we offer THE BEST service when it comes to offering a turnkey solution for the following reasons:

1.  Our clients ALWAYS have full control of their business and their money. Those who choose regional centers and partnerships usually have to kiss their money goodbye, and are STUCK for 5-9 years.
2. We offer a written guarantee of freedom from fraud and conflict of interest, whereas our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee.
3. We offer a written guarantee of FULL disclosure of material facts on an ongoing basis, whereas our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee.
4. We offer a written guarantee of full fee refund in case a client is rejected due to our team's fault, while our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee because they are incompetent cowards who are unsure about the quality of their work.
5. Since 2004, our clients have NEVER been denied at the I-526 and I-829 stage, and have NEVER suffered operating or capital losses, and have usually earned over 22% annual Return on Equity because of our focus on due diligence and our extensive efforts to reduce risk by preventing fraud and conflict of interest. Try finding a regional center or partnership that boasts of this record.
6. We are quite objective in our assessments, and owe a fiduciary duty to our EB-5 visa investor clients, while those who sell regional center and partnership securities usually do not owe fiduciary duties to EB-5 visa investors. In plain words, we are required by law to put our clients interests first, and we do so because it helps us more than it helps our clients! We advise our clients diligently and help them make solid decisions.
7. We are probably the ONLY firm that actually encourages our clients to always stay in full control of their business and their funds at every stage as this helps us avoid escrow accounting and reduces potential for fraud, embezzlement and litigation.

If you're an EB-5 visa investor who wants to get their green card quickly, safely and in a usually profitable manner, please contact us. You'll be glad you did!

Yours truly,

Mohammed Shaikh, Licensed RE and Business Broker (CA & FL)

Phone: +1 407 535 0616 Online: htttp://www.smartbusinessbroker.com 

Mikki Canton, Managing Director of the City of Miami Regional Center, says "We are not going to run afoul of any regulations." Just HOW do they plan to sell securities then?

I read an article (see link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-jahangiri/new-public-agencies-jumpi_b_5530368.html) by Ali Jahangiri, who seems to think highly of regional centers and it seems that he thinks that government entities should participate in the regional center program. This is not the first time that the founder of EB5Investors.com has made inaccurate or misleading statements, which is why I'd recommended even earlier that EB-5 visa investors should NOT blindly trust someone who earns money from fraudsters. Mr. Jahangiri IS aware that he earns money from fraudsters as I've not only advised him myself, but have also pointed out several of his advertisers to him who are committing securities fraud and securities law violations, and this can be verified by auditing their records and emails. This is why Mr. Ali Jahangiri and EB5Investors.com chose not to sue me, as they know that I can prove that many of their advertisers do commit securities fraud and violate securities laws. If Ali Jahangiri believes that regional centers don't violate the law, maybe he can point out ONE regional center that has actually marketed and sold securities in a legal manner in China, India, South Korea or Russia. I know I can't find even one, but maybe Ali Jahangiri can enlighten us and let us know whether he knows of regional centers that can do business in a lawful manner. I actually would love to see how Mikki Canton can offer and sell securities legally to EB-5 visa investors overseas, and if he knows something that the folks at IIUSA don't know. I personally believe that Mikki Canton is lying, but will reserve judgment till I see how they offer securities, as all I have to do is file a FOIA request and publish the results of the request.

To me, it seems that Mr. Jahangiri seems to have written this article in order to further the interests of fraudsters. The FUNDAMENTAL questions each and every single regional center has to answer (but FAILS to answer) are: 

1. Are you LEGALLY offering and selling securities to EB-5 visa investors overseas? For instance, regional centers use immigration agents to market and sell securities in China or India, whereas Chinese and Indian securities laws require that SECURITIES offerings should only be done through licensed securities brokers ONLY and require approval of CSRC and SEBI respectively before being marketed to investors in China and India respectively.
2. Are you disclosing the fact that your regional center is illegally offering and selling securities to potential EB-5 visa investors? If a US issuer fails to disclose ALL material facts to an overseas investor, then they are basically committing SECURITIES FRAUD.
3. Have you disclosed the commission structures to EB-5 visa investors and are you ILLEGALLY offering commissions to immigration agents?

These are just some of the critical questions that EB-5 visa investors need to ask. EB-5 visa investors need to also ask if they can trust a website (EB5Investors.com) that has accepted money from regional centers that have DEFRAUDED EB-5 visa investors by committing securities fraud and securities law violations. I have issued a challenge to Mr. Ali Jahangiri to prove me wrong by showing me ONE regional center that has legally offered and sold securities overseas, and he has been unable to do so. If he can't even name ONE such regional center, WHY does he support them, if not to make money aiding and abetting fraudsters? 

EB-5 visa seekers should remember that Genuine Direct Investment businesses are THE BEST option to get the EB-5 visa quickly, safely and usually profitably for the following reasons: 

1. Faster processing and approval times.
2. Easy exit strategy.
3. Investors usually get a much higher Return on Investment.
4. Investors usually get a much higher Capital gain, whereas regional center investors usually get capital losses.
5. Our clients have a 100% approval rate of I-526 and I-829, while those who choose regional centers or other partnerships don't.
6. Our clients have very little risk as we conduct extensive due diligence and work hard to prevent fraud and conflict of interest, whereas regional centers and partnerships are overrun with fraud and conflict of interest.
7. Full control of business and capital, which helps prevent fraud, conflict of interest and losses.

EB-5 visa investors need to remember that we offer THE BEST service when it comes to offering a turnkey solution for the following reasons:

1.  Our clients ALWAYS have full control of their business and their money. Those who choose regional centers and partnerships usually have to kiss their money goodbye, and are STUCK for 5-9 years.
2. We offer a written guarantee of freedom from fraud and conflict of interest, whereas our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee.
3. We offer a written guarantee of FULL disclosure of material facts on an ongoing basis, whereas our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee.
4. We offer a written guarantee of full fee refund in case a client is rejected due to our team's fault, while our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee because they are incompetent cowards who are unsure about the quality of their work.
5. Since 2004, our clients have NEVER been denied at the I-526 and I-829 stage, and have NEVER suffered operating or capital losses, and have usually earned over 22% annual Return on Equity because of our focus on due diligence and our extensive efforts to reduce risk by preventing fraud and conflict of interest. Try finding a regional center or partnership that boasts of this record.
6. We are quite objective in our assessments, and owe a fiduciary duty to our EB-5 visa investor clients, while those who sell regional center and partnership securities usually do not owe fiduciary duties to EB-5 visa investors. In plain words, we are required by law to put our clients interests first, and we do so because it helps us more than it helps our clients! We advise our clients diligently and help them make solid decisions.
7. We are probably the ONLY firm that actually encourages our clients to always stay in full control of their business and their funds at every stage as this helps us avoid escrow accounting and reduces potential for fraud, embezzlement and litigation.

If you're an EB-5 visa investor who wants to get their green card quickly, safely and in a usually profitable manner, please contact us. You'll be glad you did!

Yours truly,

Mohammed Shaikh, Licensed RE and Business Broker (CA & FL)

Phone: +1 407 535 0616 Online: htttp://www.smartbusinessbroker.com

EB-5 visa investors with children below need to keep this recent US Supreme Court decision in mind.

I recently read an article (see link http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/court-children-21-go-back-visa-line/) about a US Supreme Court decision that will significantly impact EB-5 visa investors, and EB-5 visa investors thinking about filing for their green card should remember that they need to do so well before their child turns 21, as any delay will directly impact their child's future.

For more details on how to quickly, safely and (usually) profitably get your EB-5 visa under the Direct Investment Category, please visit http://www.smartbusinessbroker.com or contact me on +1 407 535 0616.


Yours truly
Mohammed Shaikh, MBA, CFE, Licensed Business & RE Broker (CA & FL)
Online: http://www.smartbusinessbroker.com Phone: +1 407 535 0616

Eric Cantor's defeat means that Regional Centers are unlikely to get extension next year and they can't function anyway due to USCIS, ICE and SEC enforcement. Why should EB-5 visa investors choose Genuine Direct Investment Businesses?

Yesterday's defeat of Eric Cantor in the Republican primary has effectively killed any potential for immigration reform in Congress, and this also makes it very likely that regional centers will be unable to do business a year from now as that they will be unable to win the necessary votes in Congress to continue operating past 2015, despite the frantic efforts of the regional center folks scrambling desperately to ensure that the regional center program doesn't expire shortly in the EB-5 visa program. Regional Centers have wasted a significant amount of their time and money introducing one futile bill after the other to prevent the regional center program from expiring, but it seems that they will fail.

I just read an article about how over 200 Chinese EB-5 visa investors were defrauded by Access the USA regional center, and subsequently had their petitions denied by the USCIS as the state of Washington refused to sell securities to them due to a friendly warning from the SEC that the regional center (Access the USA) seems to have illegally offered and sold securities as well as committed securities fraud and money laundering. Now, Access the USA has sued the state of Washington for refusing to sell securities, but seems unaware that their lawsuit is destined to get dismissed quickly, as they would fail to prove that they lawfully offered and sold securities. The simple fact is, there are essentially insurmountable hurdles that regional centers CAN'T overcome, due to which they can try all they want to get EB-5 visa approvals, but will slowly find themselves locked out of the market.

What are these hurdles? 

Most regional centers try to raise funds from overseas investors. Problem is, regional centers usually use immigration agents who charge a stiff commission ranging from USD 40,000 to USD 125,000 per investor from regional centers. As it is, it is ILLEGAL for regional centers to pay commissions to the immigration agents, and the fact that regional centers usually fail to disclose this and other material facts to EB-5 visa investors makes it an act of SECURITIES FRAUD. The EB-5 visa investor's money that should have been invested in the business, is instead used to pay illegal commissions as compensation to immigration agents for the illegal sale of securities. Now that SEC is beginning to scrutinize how regional centers are offering and selling securities, the number of rejections is climbing, and this can be confirmed by reviewing the latest USCIS figures.

What regional center owners and their trade association IIUSA.org don't seem to realise is that the factors that will shut down all regional centers is not Congressional investigations, but the enforcement action of SEC, USCIS, ICE and IRS, as well as an increasing awareness and knowledge about Genuine Direct Investment Businesses.

As it is, 2 Senators are openly working to shut down regional centers due to widespread fraud, conflict of interest and national security concerns (Just search online for "ICE EB-5 secret memo"), as SEC, USCIS and ICE have provided them plenty of reasons to shut down regional centers. It now seems that USCIS has also started denying EB-5 visa petitions filed by regional centers, and it seems that EB-5 visa petitions filed by regional centers are significantly delayed due to additional scrutiny of their petitions. The number of denials for I-829 and I-526 petitions has already shot up significantly since 2012, and with the new proposed regulatory changes, not only is the number of EB-5 visa petition denials expected to increase, but it is also expected that a significant amount of EB-5 visa holders may actually end up seeing their green cards revoked due to serious issues such as money laundering, securities fraud and tax evasion.

EB-5 visa investors who wish to get their green card in a safe, expedited and usually profitable manner should only opt for Genuine Direct Investment Businesses.

If you're interested in getting your EB-5 visa with a professional who has over a decade of successful experience, please contact me. Unlike my competition, I offer a 100% fee refund guarantee in case a client is denied due to our fault, and I also offer a guarantee of freedom from fraud and conflict of interest.

Yours truly
Mohammed Shaikh, MBA, CFE, Licensed Business & RE Broker (CA & FL)
Online: http://www.smartbusinessbroker.com Phone: +1 407 535 0616

EB-5 visa investors interested in Direct Investment need to move soon as falling unemployment rates will leave fewer goodTEA locations available.

The US unemployment rate has significantly improved (see link http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/investing/may-jobs-report/index.html?iid=Lead ) due to which the number of TEA locations is expected to fall significantly. It is quite easy for EB-5 visa investors to invest $500,000 to start a new business in a TEA and get the best of both worlds, and we do have several excellent locations in Florida itself, where investors have the advantage of no state income taxes, great weather (we were the only state in the mainland USA to have no snow), a great economy (Orlando is the largest family tourist destination in the world and overall, FL accounts for 40% of USA's trade with Latin America).

EB-5 visa seekers should remember that Genuine Direct Investment businesses are THE BEST option to get the EB-5 visa quickly, safely and usually profitably for the following reasons:

1. Faster processing and approval times.
2. Easy exit strategy.
3. Investors usually get a much higher Return on Investment.
4. Investors usually get a much higher Capital gain, whereas regional center investors usually get capital losses.
5. Our clients have a 100% approval rate of I-526 and I-829, while those who choose regional centers or other partnerships don't.
6. Our clients have very little risk as we conduct extensive due diligence and work hard to prevent fraud and conflict of interest, whereas regional centers and partnerships are overrun with fraud and conflict of interest.
7. Full control of business and capital, which helps prevent fraud, conflict of interest and losses.

EB-5 visa investors need to remember that we offer THE BEST service when it comes to offering a turnkey solution for the following reasons:

1.  Our clients ALWAYS have full control of their business and their money. Those who choose regional centers and partnerships usually have to kiss their money goodbye, and are STUCK for 5-9 years.
2. We offer a written guarantee of freedom from fraud and conflict of interest, whereas our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee.
3. We offer a written guarantee of FULL disclosure of material facts on an ongoing basis, whereas our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee.
4. We offer a written guarantee of full fee refund in case a client is rejected due to our team's fault, while our competitors usually don't offer this guarantee because they are incompetent cowards who are unsure about the quality of their work.
5. Since 2004, our clients have NEVER been denied at the I-526 and I-829 stage, and have NEVER suffered operating or capital losses, and have usually earned over 22% annual Return on Equity because of our focus on due diligence and our extensive efforts to reduce risk by preventing fraud and conflict of interest. Try finding a regional center or partnership that boasts of this record.
6. We are quite objective in our assessments, and owe a fiduciary duty to our EB-5 visa investor clients, while those who sell regional center and partnership securities usually do not owe fiduciary duties to EB-5 visa investors. In plain words, we are required by law to put our clients interests first, and we do so because it helps us more than it helps our clients! We advise our clients diligently and help them make solid decisions.
7. We are probably the ONLY firm that actually encourages our clients to always stay in full control of their business and their funds at every stage as this helps us avoid escrow accounting and reduces potential for fraud, embezzlement and litigation.

If you're an EB-5 visa investor who wants to get their green card quickly, safely and in a usually profitable manner, please contact us. You'll be glad you did!

Yours truly,

Mohammed Shaikh, Licensed RE and Business Broker (CA & FL)

Phone: +1 407 535 0616 Online: htttp://www.smartbusinessbroker.com