2015年CRI 美国投资移民吸引中国人

 

Chinese investment immigration has become an important financing method for more than half of the developers in New York.

Many high-end residential¹ communities in the U.S. are being built with investment largely from Chinese investment immigration applicants².

One such community in New York is being built with a 30 percent Chinese immigrant investor³ stake.

Expected to provide 1,600 jobs for neighboring areas, this New York property project is only a start for Jonathan Rabinow, investment director of the property project.

"And because this project has gone so well and this development has gone so well, we are about to embark⁴ upon our second EB-5 project which is gonna be just about 20 minutes north of here."

The investment immigration plan, named Employment Based Fifth Preference, or EB-5, stipulates⁵ that foreign investors⁶ can apply for green cards by investing 500,000 US dollars or more and providing at least 10 jobs.

EB-5 was launched in 1990 and the number of applicants have soared up in the last four years.

The number of green cards issued through the EB-5 program grew from nearly two thousand in the fiscal⁷ year 2010 to more than ten thousand in 2014.

Jason Jia, an investment immigration lawyer with Yerman & Associates, says the surge in Chinese investment immigration is because of the growth of Chinese high-income earners and the growing employment demands of Chinese overseas students.

"Investment immigration may be the only method for many Chinese families to get green cards if they do not have relatives or jobs in the U.S. This is because Investment immigration has no requirements for language skill, educational background, or work experience."

As the EB-5 act expires in September, the U.S congress may prolong the EB-5 act, and increase the investment requirement to 800,000 US dollars.

It may also require stricter auditing⁸ and supervision⁹ due to some fraud occurrences with EB-5.

Based on the statistics provided by non-profit organization "Invest in the USA," EB-5 brought the U.S. some 1.5 billion US dollars of investment and 31,000 jobs in 2013.

Peter D. Joseph, executive director of Invest In the USA, says he believes the U.S. congress will continue to support EB-5 as an important financing method.

He adds that judicial¹⁰ oversight¹¹ is needed to protect the interests of investors.

"This program has grown quickly as it has, as we discussed earlier, a 700 percent growth in about a six year time period. Investors are also protected by U.S. laws when they are investing in United States, and the federal government here in the U.S. has shown that they are willing to fight for investors when they step in, and if people are trying to take advantage of investors, they'll have to face the long arm of justice here in the U.S."

For CRI, I'm Qian Shanming.

1 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

2 applicants   

申请人，求职人( applicant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
• He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。

3 investor   

n.投资者，投资人

参考例句：

• My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
• The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。

4 embark   

vi.乘船，着手，从事，上飞机

参考例句：

• He is about to embark on a new business venture.他就要开始新的商业冒险活动。
• Many people embark for Europe at New York harbor.许多人在纽约港乘船去欧洲。

5 stipulates   

n.（尤指在协议或建议中）规定，约定，讲明（条件等）( stipulate的名词复数 )；规定，明确要求v.（尤指在协议或建议中）规定，约定，讲明（条件等）( stipulate的第三人称单数 )；规定，明确要求

参考例句：

• The trade contract stipulates for the settlement of balances in RMB. 贸易合同规定余额以人民币结算。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The contract stipulates for the use of seasoned timber. 合同上订明用干透的木料。 来自辞典例句

6 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

7 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

8 auditing   

n.审计，查账，决算

参考例句：

• Auditing standards are the rules governing how an audit is performed.收支检查标准是规则统治一个稽核如何被运行。
• The auditing services market is dominated by a few large accounting firms.审计服务市场被几家大型会计公司独占了。

9 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

10 judicial   

adj.司法的，法庭的，审判的，明断的，公正的

参考例句：

• He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
• Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。

11 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。