EB-5 With Gifted Funds
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How gifted capital can support an EB-5 investment when the donor’s original source and the path of funds are clearly documented.
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Gifted funds are widely used in EB-5. The investor of record does not have to have personally earned the capital; a parent, spouse, sibling, or other family member may gift it. USCIS still looks through to the donor’s lawful original source and requires a complete trail from donor to investor to the new commercial enterprise or escrow.
Parent-to-student cases with country-specific remittance issues are covered in depth onEB-5 for Chinese families andEB-5 for Indian families. This page is the broader gift umbrella: any qualifying family gift structure, not only parents. For the fuller funding research (including how gifts sit next to loans and other paths), seeways to fund an EB-5 investment and the map pageEB-5 source of funds.
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