and also to listen to the needs and try to understand such needs. I feel very satisfied with such work.
EB5 Investors Magazine: What countries do you help immigrants migrate to on the investment immigration side of your company, and what are the most popular immigration programs that you offer?
Anna: We used to handle the Australian and Canadian immigration or entrepreneur programs, but in the last six years, we’ ve focused a lot on the U. S. EB-5 program. Apart from those, we also deal with high-net-worth clients to help with passport programs to the Caribbean countries. That is not a big portion of our business, but there is a growing market trend.
EB5 Investors Magazine: What are the most popular of those programs that you’ ve offered?
Anna: The biggest is absolutely EB-5.
EB5 Investors Magazine: What do you see as the biggest issues facing migration agencies today?
Anna: The biggest issue is the market because in Canton there is
“ 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.” no regulation; there is no license for operating such a business. The market has over 3,000 agents. It seems like it’ s much more competitive, but actually it’ s a challenge for the agencies on how to comprehensively and professionally answer such needs.
EB5 Investors Magazine: What do you see as the biggest obstacles facing the EB-5 program in particular? What should be done to address these issues?
Anna: If we’ re looking at the business-side— the quotas— I think the waiting time is a bit too long. But to make this industry healthier, we need to really focus on a review taking a look at the impact of those failures and cheating in the market. I would say we need stricter regulations and reviews on a regular basis, and policy-makers need to make everything clearer and easier to evaluate. I think these are the biggest obstacles.
EB5 Investors Magazine: For your clients, what are their major concerns, both generally and specifically regarding EB-5?
Anna: I think it is the concern of risk. We have a good record and a lot of successful cases. However, the market offers a variety of different programs, and the clients don’ t have the knowledge to identify the risks. They have the risk, but don’ t know how to manage it. That’ s why this is such a big portion of our business now. They still just rely on friends’ referrals— previous successful cases. Getting the money out of China is another obstacle today for investors.
EB5 Investors Magazine: What are the biggest obstacles for the expansion of EB-5 in China? We hear a lot about competition, government regulation, etc. What are your thoughts?
Anna: The market is already oversupplied, so I don’ t think it’ s a great idea to provide more. But there are other trends for those people. They should consider wealth management-related products. Another obvious need in China is the degradation of the renminbi( RMB) so they want to get the money out of China. If you have products or services to satisfy that need, that would be great— so don’ t focus too much on EB-5.
EB5 Investors Magazine: So then an obstacle is the risk and then getting money out of China. And
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