When can relocated employees be counted towards the EB-5 requirement?

The employees can be counted if the new location meets the criteria of a “new enterprise.” Every qualifying investment in a new enterprise must create 10 new full-time positions. Expansion of an existing business can qualify as a “new enterprise” provided the investment increases the employees by 40 percent. If employees transferred from Texas to Los Angeles, they would not be counted as original employees and would not be included in the 40 percent increase and would not be counted as one of the ten positions to be created in the “new enterprise.”

Probably not. Relocating employees is not the same as creating new jobs. If you get creative with the organizational structure, perhaps start a new corporation, then I think you have a shot at this.

Relocation of employees does not constitute new job creation. Your business plan would need to demonstrate the need for at least ten new full-time positions for U.S. workers at the new location, and it must provide a credible and feasible timeline for such hiring, along with the other Matter of Ho requirements for a comprehensive business plan.

A new location would probably be eligible (pending EB-5 immigration due diligence). To be safe, all-new employees would probably be the best route to take.

Relocation does not really count. If you investing in an existing business you have to create 10 new full time jobs on top of the jobs already existing. You should just create a new business that works in collaboration with the friend&#39s original business. That way the employees that want to relocate can do so under the new company, creating "new" jobs.

The EB-5 jobs requirement is for creating new, permanent, full-time jobs. Mere relocation of jobs is not sufficient.

Yes, new jobs in new locations can be counted for EB-5 purposes.

A new location is certainly eligible. The requirements state "new jobs" so simply transferring existing jobs to another location could prove problematic.

Transferred employees will not count as new employees. More information is needed otherwise to evaluate your case.

We can only count net new jobs for EB-5 purposes. If the jobs that the employees are leaving in Texas will be filled with other people so that those jobs are not lost, then all jobs in California could be counted. However, if the people in Texas are simply transferred to California, and were not replaced in Texas, you could only count the new jobs added in California, not including those filled by the transferees from Texas. Put simply, new jobs would equal total California jobs, minus Texas Transfers, unless you can document that the jobs that the Texas transfers held in Texas continue to exist and are filled by new people in Texas.

Relocated employees cannot count towards the EB-5 job creation. It has to be new jobs.