If you are you applying for the EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa here's how you invest your funds in a USCIS Regional Center project.

You don't need to already have a U.S. bank account and you won't need to create one to transfer your funds. And you don't invest funds in the USCIS regional center, you invest in a specific regional center project. 

A USCIS regional center is a publically or privately owned organization, that is designated and regulated by the USCIS, that pool multiple EB-5 investors investments to promote and develop projects for U.S. economic growth, capital investment, and job creation.

What you need is to have the funding ready to go in your personal bank account in your country. There is no requirement that you must be present in the U.S. in order to invest or transfer funds into an EB-5 project.

Then you can directly transfer the funds from your personal account into an escrow account. For more information about the types of escrow click here.

Once the capital investment is transferred to the EB-5 project's escrow, you'll need the extensive paperwork to prove that the capital investment came from lawful sources. The more proof the smoother the process will go.

Once the EB-5 project is approved and the funding was proved to be obtained in a lawful manner, then the escrow funding will be released into the project. Your investment will go directly into the project and be used by the business as according to the escrow agreement that was laid out. If the EB-5 project is not approved, the escrow funding will be released back to the investor.

It is recommended that EB-5 investors seek qualified and experienced EB-5 attorneys to review the transfer of funds and the documentation. An attorney can also help advise on all aspects of choosing an EB-5 project for investment.

For Regional Centers in New York click here. 

For Regional Centers in California click here.