Vietnamese
Family Reaches
the American
Dream through
EB-5 Investment
Thao Nguyen decided to pursue the EB-5
program because she wanted her four
children to get a better education than
they would in Hanoi.
By EB5 Investors Magazine Staff
T
hao Nguyen didn’t just wait for good fortune to find her.
She went in search of it.
At every point in her EB-5 journey to immigrate to the United
States, she sought out the most viable option to make her
dream come true of raising her children in the land of the free.
It was online research that led her to the migration agent she
used and who helped her choose the project she would invest
in. Nguyen, 46, was one of the first clients of Chris Loc Dao of
USIS in Vietnam to obtain green cards for her family.
Two weeks before the final interview, she had received a
refund of her total $500,000 investment. She believes she is
the first EB-5 investor from Vietnam to get her money back,
which was invested in CMB Regional Centers.
PLANTING ROOTS IN THE U.S.
From her apartment in a trendy high-rise, she looks out over
the buildings of east Hollywood in Los Angeles. Nguyen’s
grown daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend play with a
Pomeranian as scents of pho drift from the kitchen.
“It’s my second home now,” said Nguyen through her
daughter, Trinh Hoang, 24, who was translating. “I’m so happy
that back then I made the right decision to do EB-5 and invest
in CMB, because all the members of our family legally stay in
the U.S., and of course we will be investing in the U.S. in the
future.”
Nguyen decided to pursue U.S. permanent residency through
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