EB5 Investors Magazine: Can you please tell us about your company and what makes it unique from other migration agencies?
Anna: I am one of the founders of WIL Overseas Capital Investment Company Limited( WIL). We established the company in 1997. The company was one of the first to receive an exit and entry license in the Canton( Guangdong) province. Currently, Canton no longer has regulations requiring this license. In 2003, we started our practice in the immigration business, so we now have 13 years of experience in the migration industry. For the past eight years, the Shenzhen General Chamber of Commerce has ranked WIL at the vice president level, and our company was the first of its kind to be awarded as an“ Established Brand” in 2015. We are one of the first migration companies to be nominated and granted such an award. The company provides services much like a family office, and the investment immigration program is a key component. We are aiming at high-net-worth clients and high-high-net-worth clients. So we want to act as a consultancy to clients in terms of any family affairs relating to overseas business— especially for education, which is a key component. The way we handle education involves planning in the initial phase and a review of the child’ s progress. Also, we provide tutoring services for the family and gradually lead them to an appreciation of Western values and culture— both on the academic side and social side. As far as children’ s education, we’ ve received a lot of positive feedback from our clients. They feel like there is a very valuable component to that service. But we are not doing the overseas’ advisory service as an individual component— it’ s not a regular kind of service. Rather, for our high-net-worth clients, it’ s part of that service.
Apart from the education sector, our focus is on wealth management and objectives regarding asset allocation overseas. If they’ re EB-5 clients, do they have any settlement plans, do they want to have a comprehensive retirement plan, a child’ s education plan, etc.? Also, what is their tolerance in terms of investment? After that, we refer our partners in the United States to fulfill our services to them. At the same time, we monitor the satisfaction of the clients and how they feel about it. There’ s a cultural element here. Also, we have private equity investment projects with our partners, so if they have more aggressive investment needs, we will work with our partners as well. The other sector involves taxes. We have licensed tax advisors to help our clients understand their taxes, and when they make investments, what is the link with those taxation issues.
For most companies, it takes a long time to build up these resources and know-how, so we are very proud that we are very comprehensive in this sector with our services— to help one particular client really understand his or her needs and then to provide the services that can satisfy such needs.
EB5 Investors Magazine: Can you share a little bit about why you decided to enter into this business?
Anna: I decided to go into this business because of my educational background, and also because I want to offer the things we are interested in understanding better, and then share that knowledge with people who have such needs. We regard this as a very valuable thing that is a part of our business. Also, I personally wanted to create a person-to-person business, to build up connections,
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