EB5 Investors Magazine Volume 7, Issue 2 | Page 17

The art of picking the right EB-5 project What EB-5 investors should think about when doing their due diligence check list for selecting an investment project, including focusing on job creation, the return of investment, timing, and redeployment strategies. By Marko Issever D ue diligence for an EB-5 project is about analyzing the ins and outs of the project chosen for green card qualification, focusing on the immigration, financial and business aspects. When making their ultimate decision, investors should take an analytical approach and focus on certain important considerations in each categor y. This list could be augmented to arrive at an overall score for each project. Each category, besides being weighted, would have its own independent criteria. Investors can assign two numbers to each criterion within a category: • The first number should be weight. Within the specific category, the more the criteria is of concern to the investor, the higher its corresponding weight. • The second number should be rating. In comparison EB5INVESTORS.COM 17