{"id":735,"date":"2014-06-27T04:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:28:18","slug":"mona-shah-eb5-difference-between-regional-center-and-direct-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/mona-shah-eb5-difference-between-regional-center-and-direct-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Shah: EB5 difference between Regional Centers and Direct Investments (Ep. 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In this episode we talk to Immigration Attorney Mona Shah\u00a0on the difference between Regional Center and Direct investments with regard to the actual EB-5 immigration petition<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2911549\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mona-Shah.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-736\" src=\"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mona-Shah.jpg\" alt=\"Mona Shah\" width=\"361\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mona-Shah.jpg 361w, https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mona-Shah-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mona-Shah-264x200.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a>Mona is the managing partner of Mona Shah and Associates located on Broadway in New York City. \u00a0She has over 19 years of legal experience, with more than 15 years concentrated in U.S. immigration and litigation. Mona has hands-on experience setting up, working with and establishing EB-5 Regional Centers nationwide, as well as an impressive track record of many years handling complex immigration matters, including private non-regional center investor cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In this episode you will hear:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A compassion of the EB-5 Direct investments vs. Regional Centers from an Immigration standpoint<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How Regional Centers make use of &#8216;indirect&#8217; jobs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The indirect job risk of the &#8216;last investor&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>General guidelines for Direct Investments and Regional Centers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Examples of petitions for Direct Investments and Regional Centers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal issues that should be considered when choosing between the 2 programs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How different EB-5 models may work better for various industries (i.e. Hotels vs. Restaurant franchises)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How the paperwork may be reduced for &#8216;self-directed&#8217; EB-5 investments, but the importance of the business plan is increased.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>shameless plug for my firm&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Free EB-5 Matter of Ho checklist\" href=\"http:\/\/foreignirg.com\/EB5checklist\">free \u00a0&#8216;Matter of Ho&#8217; business plan checklist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mona\u00a0also\u00a0shares with us:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Business Advice: <\/strong>The KISS principle: \u00a0Keep it Simple <em>Savvy Investor (I may have fudged that last part)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Her personal habits that she\u00a0attributes to her success:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u00a0contentiously\u00a0reads books not just to expand her\u00a0professional\u00a0knowledge, but also to\u00a0increase\u00a0her cultural understanding and empathy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parting Thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong>She thanks me for my show! \u00a0<em>(ahhh&#8230; I&#8217;m flattered)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we talk to Immigration Attorney Mona Shah\u00a0on the difference between Regional Center and Direct investments with regard to the actual EB-5 immigration petition &nbsp; &nbsp; Mona is the managing partner of Mona Shah and Associates located on Broadway in New York City. \u00a0She has over 19 years of legal experience, with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"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\/Mona-Shah.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4QTQm-bR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usimmigrationpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}