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The EB-5 visa program is an attractive way for foreign nationals to earn U.S. green cards because it is a straightforward and relatively short route towards living in America. Citizens of one nation in particular has been taking advantage of the EB-5 visa program to get into the country.

China is an emerging economic super power, and as such there are many people in the country who have the money an EB-5 investment opportunity requires and are hoping to use it to take up residency in America. On the other end of the EB-5 visa program, many EB-5 regional centers target Chinese investors precisely because so many of them have the money to spend and are interested in obtaining U.S. green cards.

Many of these EB-5 regional centers, particularly those on the West Coast, are seeing strong interest from China.

“The majority of the inquiries come from China,” Christina Lau, director of the newly opened California Wineries and Vineyards Regional Center, told the Contra Costa Times. “It’s amazing. Maybe they really have that much money to spend.”

While some EB-5 regional centers don’t receive as many direct inquiries from China, they are instead targeting Chinese investors for their projects. Such is the case of the recently opened regional center in Lansing, Michigan, where the mayor told the Lansing State Journal that the city is looking for investors from China.