EB5 Affiliate Network (EB5AN) has a fully approved EB-5 regional center in Georgia that covers all of Savannah, including Downtown, Metropolitan, and the rest of the city of Savannah.

If you’re planning an EB-5 project based in Savannah, Georgia, contact us to learn how to become a an EB5AN business affiliate to simplify the EB-5 process for you and your investors.

Affiliating your EB-5 project with EB5AN’s State of Georgia EB-5 regional center gives you several advantages.

1. You will be able to start raising EB-5 capital immediately, anywhere in Savannah.

Since EB5AN’s State of Georgia regional center has geographic coverage of all of Georgia, you can begin raising your EB-5 capital anywhere in Savannah as soon as your affiliation is complete. EB5AN currently owns and operates numerous Immigrant Investor Regional Centers throughout the country, all of which have been approved by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and are listed on the USCIS website.

2. You can use indirect jobs to meet the 10-job requirement for each investor.

The EB-5 program regulations mandate that each EB-5 investor create at least 10 new fulltime jobs for U.S. workers through their EB-5 investment. Affiliating your project with one of our approved regional centers means that you can include indirect jobs along with direct employees in that total, giving you a higher job count and allowing you to raise a substantially greater amount of investor capital. If you don’t affiliate your project with a USCIS-approved regional center, you can include only direct employees of the new enterprise in your job total.

3. You can start raising EB-5 capital sooner.

If time is of the essence, our team of EB-5 experts will help you complete the regional center affiliation process so you can get started right away. We can help you figure out how many eligible jobs your project is projected to create, how much EB-5 capital your project can reasonably handle, and if your project plan is consistent with EB5AN’s affiliation criteria.

We can finish and submit your I-924 application within 21 days to help you form your own EB-5 regional center in Savannah.

EB5AN not only offers regional center affiliation for EB-5 projects—we can also help you through the process of forming your own regional center. You will need to complete and submit a Form I-924 application to get your own regional center approved. EB5AN has the experience and resources necessary to guide you through the application and help you avoid common pitfalls. We can also answer any questions you have about the USCIS adjudication process. EB5AN has completed well over 300 USCIS-compliant business plans and economic impact studies throughout the country, and its regional centers have a combined coverage of more than 20 states.

Contact us for information on how EB5AN can help you get your EB-5 regional center up and running. As always, we will respond within 24 hours.

Is my EB-5 project in a targeted employment area (TEA)?

Because targeted employment area (TEA) designation holds numerous benefits for EB-5 projects in Savannah and other cities, it is important to understand both the benefits of and the USCIS process for TEA designation. To determine whether your EB-5 project location falls within a TEA, please consult our free EB-5 TEA map, which includes data for the entire United States. All you need to do is to enter the project address—the rest of the process is automated.

The EB5AN TEA map relies on the most recently published versions of two data sets, namely American Community Survey (ACS) five-year data and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. It assesses TEA eligibility based on four calculation methodologies USCIS accepts—three related to calculating unemployment rates and one related to qualification as a rural TEA. Unemployment rates are calculated using (1) American Community Survey (ACS) five-year unemployment data by census tract, (2) the census-share methodology, which is based on a combination of ACS data and county-level BLS data, and (3) BLS county-level data for TEA determination on a county-wide level. To determine rural qualification, population and geographical data are considered. To qualify as a TEA, a project site needs to qualify under only one calculation method.

A TEA can also be created by combining directly adjacent census tracts and considering the weighted average unemployment rate. The EB5AN TEA map performs this function automatically.

If you confirm that your EB-5 regional center is located in a TEA in Savannah, you can also use the EB5AN TEA map to instantly download a free TEA Qualification Report that shows all the data and calculations that support TEA qualification for your project location. Should you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact the EB5AN team by phone at 1-800-288-9138 or via e-mail at info@eb5an.com. We promise to respond within 24 hours.

The bustling city of Savannah is an ideal location for your EB-5 regional center project.

Savannah’s popular attractions, such as Forsyth Park, draw visitors to the city in droves. Students from all around the world and across the country come to Savannah State University. What’s more, Savannah fully supports the EB-5 Regional Center Program as a way for investors to legally immigrate to the United States while boosting the U.S. economy at the same time.

The EB5AN regional center in Georgia covers the entire Hostess City of the South in Chatham County. Through our regional center, foreign investors seeking U.S. green cards can invest in an EB-5 project through a USCIS-approved regional center that covers all of Savannah, including the surrounding areas of Richmond Hill, Pooler, Port Wentworth, and more.

Georgia population breakdown and income demographics

Savannah may not be the most densely populated city in the United States—in fact, it ranks at number 683—but it covers a large area of 108.7 square miles and has a population of 146,763.

Savannah’s large population makes it an ideal location for your EB-5 project. Affiliating your project with EB5AN would create sorely needed full-time jobs for the community, reducing the unemployment rate and benefitting the residents of Savannah and surrounding areas.

Contact us today for more information about setting up your own USCIS-approved EB-5 regional center or affiliating with EB5AN’s State of Georgia EB-5 regional center.

You can reach us by phone at 1-800-288-9138 or by e-mail at info@eb5an.com. We look forward to hearing from you!