EB-5 Visa Program
The EB-5 Visa was created by the Immigration Act of 1990, which provides a proven method for foreign investors and their families (spouse and dependents under the age of 21) to obtain a Green Card (permanent residence). An applicant must be willing to make a significant investment in the country, as the fundamental purpose of the EB-5 Visa is to stimulate the US economy through job creation and capital investment. In return, foreign immigrant investors are granted all the benefits of permanent US residency.

Regional Centre Investment
The required investment can be in a new commercial enterprise/ job creating entity, which enters a licensing relationship with a company designated by the USCIS as a Regional Centre (i.e., the Regional Center designation covers a geographical area of business activity and employment creation).
In majority of these Regional Center investments, the projects and the job creating entity are directed and managed by separate developers and promoters than the investor. The investor will usually have a security interest in the new commercial enterprise and have a passive management role in making policy decisions or joint management decisions with the other investors in the commercial enterprise.
Under the Regional Center program, the new or existing commercial enterprise / job creating entity, must create 10 full time jobs against each EB-5 investment.