EB-5 stands for the fifth preference employment-based immigrant visa or Immigrant Investor/Entrepreneur Visa category. For this visa, the alien must invest one-million dollars (or $500.000 in certain areas) AND create 10 permanent, full-time jobs for American workers within a two-year period. If they fail to meet the requirements then their status is terminated and they have to leave the U.S. A Regional Center is a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) designated entity that has been authorized to help pool investments into larger projects and utilize "reasonable methodologies" to demonstrate sufficient job creation. Generally an input-output economic model such as IMPLAN is used to forecast job creation and may include indirect jobs. Many solo and small groups have sprung up to write business plans and create economic analyses as well as create EB-5 compliant standardized transaction documents such as private placement memoranda (PPMs). USCIS must authorize a Regional Center first and then it may charge fees for all that difficult planning that went into creating EB-5 suitable and compliant investment opportunities. I perform quality reviews of all these various documents and help make them EB-5 Compliant, if possible.