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海归草
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作者：海归草 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
（声明：本人非专业人士，本文不提供专业意见。相关专业问题请咨询相关财务、法律方面的并在美国注册的会计师与律师。）
天天上网，每天要看到很多次的美国移民广告，早已经熟视无睹，大脑自动忽略。因某友来电询问美国移民之事，故凭过去之经验略微搜索下网络，发觉：
目前国内无孔不入的广告投资移民项目，大都在肆意吹嘘。至少有“高佣金、高风险、涉违法”三大问题：
一、高佣金：
美国资金遍地，如果设计移民项目的组织者（promotor）有非常靠谱的项目，一般可以在美国获得低成本的融资，不需要大张旗鼓地四处花费高额广告费用去募集资金。比如芝加哥某项目，50万美金的投资移民，据说可以有10-15万美金的佣金。重赏之下必有勇夫，难怪国内推广者不惜重金拉人。
二、高风险：
很多项目都有什么某某区域中心、政府官员站台、政府资助。。。之类的话语，利用国内小民的惧官心理，以为这些都是官方组织的、或至少有官方支持参与的项目。
其实一般都是私人组织的募集资金组织，根本不是政府项目，至少本人扫视了一下网上的几十个项目，没有看到一个是政府的，都是私人的。
此类项目的风险巨大，最坏的结果是赔了50万美金还被拒绝绿卡。
还有什么“美国政府批准项目”，其实可能是指登记并暂时批准作为移民项目，并非政府担保。
另外，高官站台推销，也很多。你知道，美国官员是很容易请到的，与之来几张照片那真是太容易不过的事情了。（不像我朝高官，娇胜小女，羞不出中南海。）
同上“高佣金”所述，很多项目极有可能是风险极大的项目，组织者可能想通过变成移民项目来忽悠资金。
三、涉违法：
按此类项目的私募性质，属于SEC的管制，网上是不允许出现广告的。但是，这些项目在中国都是堂而皇之地广泛宣传，包括百度上的“推广”，肯定是违反SEC的相关规定的。
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有此网站，提供比较客观的评论，不过是英文的。
https://eb5info.com/
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关于投资移民问题的国会听证会：
https://info.eb5info.com/bid/110123/Senate-Judiciary-Committee-Hears-EB-5-Regional-Center-Testimony
Senate Judiciary Committee Hears EB-5 Regional Center Testimony
Posted by Adam Green on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 @ 08:26 AM
On December 7, the EB-5 visa program featured prominently in a hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, an event during which prominent voices from the EB-5 community contributed testimony.
Leading the discussion was Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who let it be known in his opening remarks that legislation to make the EB-5 Regional Center Pilot Program a permanent fixture of our country's immigration policy sat at the core of the day's discussions. Leahy has frequently lauded the EB-5 program and is one of its most vocal supporters in Congress.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) also contributed to the opening discussion, stating his support for the EB-5 visa program with the reservation that Congress must "enact reforms that make the EB-5 Regional Center Program worthy of its goals."
Grassley mentioned rumors that overseas promoters were "mischaracterizing the program, luring investors here, and robbing them of the American dream" – a fear that is completely valid and that available evidence suggests is happening more frequently than we'd all like to believe.
The testimony
As for the witnesses, two EB-5 supporters and one opponent shared insight and responded to questions. The first was Bill Stenger, a principal at multiple regional centers, who noted that EB-5 has helped him create "over 2,000 jobs" in his region of Vermont – a rural county with the highest unemployment level in the state.
"Unless this program is extended," Stenger argued, he and his partners wouldn't be able to continue creating jobs in northern Vermont. In addition to a ski resort they've been able to modernize and turn into a year-round operation, Stenger is also planning to build new commercial facilities, housing, and infrastructure in the region.
Ski resorts have become something of a favorite for regional centers. With almost zero chance of getting bank loans, EB-5 has turned into one of the only ways real estate projects can access low cost capital.
Attorney Robert Divine of Baker Donelson also testified before the committee and noted that the EB-5 program must be made permanent now rather than later so that investors won't be scared away from investing in projects. The idea that the program has to come up for renewal and be approved every few years makes investors hesitant, he said.
The only witness to voice opposition to the program was David North of the Center for Immigration Studies. And it isn't just the program's extension that North opposes. He unequivocally opposes the EB-5 Regional Center Program's very existence, calling it "a dysfunctional portion of a silly program which should be allowed to wither and die."
That certainly sounds harsh, but we've heard from David North before.
The EB-5 program "attracts sub-par investments and often scandals," he told the committee. "Such programs should be about creating business entities, not passive investments," he said.
Senator Leahy noted that the record included a statement from North which referred to Stenger's ski resort as "decaying" and a poor use of investor funds. Upon asking Stenger, whom Leahy earlier disclosed was a personal friend of his, whether his facility was, in fact, decaying, Stenger responded that it wasn't – not at all.
"We're not decaying," he said. "We're thriving."
North's response: "I don't think the U.S. Senate should operate on anecdotes."
And the conclusion?
There wasn't one. Nothing concrete, at least.
In addition to Senators Leahy and Grassley, Senators Sessions (R-AL) and Cornyn (R-TX) offered statements that should be encouraging to the folks at IIUSA as well as other EB-5 supporters.
EB-5 investors will have "wealth to bring," said Senator Sessions. "They will be job creators."
With respect to Senator Grassley's initial concern regarding foreign promoters sending investors the wrong message, Divine closed by noting that EB-5 investments "are covered by U.S. securities laws." If promoters in China, for instance, are telling investors anything misleading, "it would be a violation of U.S. securities laws" as well as China's, he said.
In short, Divine believes it's an issue for the SEC to address.
If this hearing of the Judiciary Committee is anything close to a microcosm of the U.S. Senate's opinion of EB-5, things look good for the program whenever its permanent extension actually does come up for a vote. With the nation still deep in a recession, it would be hard not to support a program with a proven track record of creating new jobs.
作者：海归草 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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