TOP ECONOMISTS
MICHAEL KESTER
IMPACT DATASOURCE | PARTNER & LEAD EB-5 ECONOMIST
M i c h a e l Ke s te r i s p a r t n e r
and lead EB-5 economist
with Impact DataSource.
Established in 1993, Impact
DataSource is a Texas-based
consulting firm specializing
in economic and fiscal impact research services. The firm
began offering specialized EB-5 services in 2010. Kester
leads the firm’s specialized EB-5 economics team, which
offers consulting, analyses and deliverables that reflect
the needs of EB-5 clients and ever-changing requirements
of USCIS. The EB-5 team has completed more than 450
comprehensive EB-5 economic studies, assisted clients
in obtaining more than a thousand TE A let ters and
successfully helped clients on many complex EB-5 cases.
leverage our background to help that client on our first
successful EB-5 project. Impact DataSource’s EB-5 team
now consists of three dedicated and specialized EB-5
economists assisting a variety of clients in completing
their EB-5 documentation and meeting their goal of
creating U.S. jobs and growing the nation’s economy.
WHAT NEW TYPES OF PROJECTS
AND TRENDS ARE YOU SEEING
IN THE EB-5 INDUSTRY?
While the majority of projects that we see are still hotels,
multi-family, mixed-use and similar real estate projects, over
the past year or so we have seen a small but noticeable
increase in other project types such as manufacturing, solar
and infrastructure-based projects
WHY DID YOU GET INVOLVED
IN THE EB-5 INDUSTRY?
Leveraging its more than 20 years of experience, Impact
DataSource entered the world of EB-5 service providers in
2010, focusing on economic analysis, when an existing
client asked us to help on an EB-5 project. We were able to
IMMIGRATION & BUSINESS LAW EXPERTISE YOU CAN RELY ON
Chhabria Law is a leading Chicago area law firm, with
international offices in Dubai, UAE and Mumbai, India.
Having participated in 50+ live seminars in 18 cities in India, 6 cities
in Kenya and East Africa, and throughout the Middle East in the UAE
and Oman, our firm has keen insight into investor-centered issues.
Having answered almost every conceivable question posed by
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strategy and planning in both the short and long-term.
With a history of representing developers as well, our offices
seamlessly bridge the styles, personalities, methods, and
assumptions of developers, investors, and third party
professionals in the EB-5 context.
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EB5 INVESTORS M AGAZINE
VISHAL K. CHHABRIA
IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY
773-431-0452 | [email protected]