{"id":719,"date":"2014-06-17T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:31:27","slug":"ismael-fernandez-eb5-targeted-employment-areas-designations-using-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/ismael-fernandez-eb5-targeted-employment-areas-designations-using-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ismael Fernandez, PhD: EB-5 Targeted Employment Area Designations using GATES (Ep. 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In this episode we talk to Economist Ismael Fernandez, PhD on\u00a0EB-5 Targeted Employment Area (TEA) Designations using Geographical Alignment of Tract Employment Statistics (GATES)\u00a0Analysis<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2895765\/height\/90\/width\/1080\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"1080\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ismael-Fernandez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-720\" src=\"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ismael-Fernandez.jpg\" alt=\"Ismael Fernandez\" width=\"368\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ismael-Fernandez.jpg 368w, https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ismael-Fernandez-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ismael-Fernandez-264x200.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Fernandez is the chief economist and co-founder of Foreign Investor Resource Group. He is responsible for the planning and execution of most services provided by FIRG and ensuring the quality and accuracy of all the economic and employment studies provided by the company. In addition to the immigration arena, he has extensive knowledge in the fields of risk management, financial accounting, and strategic decision making. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this episode you will hear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What a\u00a0Targeted Employment Area is<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The benefit of a Targeted Employment Area to EB-5 investors<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The drawback of\u00a0Targeted Employment Areas<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How to obtain a TEA designation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What a\u00a0Geographical Alignment of Tract Employment Statistics analysis is and how it can be beneficial for hopeful TEAs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ismael also\u00a0shares with us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His personal habits that attributes to his\u00a0success:<strong>\u00a0Patience\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><b>Perseverance<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Parting Thoughts:<strong>\u00a0Interview, select, then trust the\u00a0professionals\u00a0you hire.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we talk to Economist Ismael Fernandez, PhD on\u00a0EB-5 Targeted Employment Area (TEA) Designations using Geographical Alignment of Tract Employment Statistics (GATES)\u00a0Analysis &nbsp; Dr. Fernandez is the chief economist and co-founder of Foreign Investor Resource Group. He is responsible for the planning and execution of most services provided by FIRG and ensuring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[73,40,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ismael-Fernandez.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4QTQm-bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}