President Trump’s Bold Plan for Investment-Based Immigration
On Feb. 25, 2025, President Donald Trump announced his bold vision for the United States’ investment-based immigration visa. The announcement from President Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick reaffirms the importance of immigrant investors creating new American jobs and driving U.S. economic growth.
Invest in the USA (IIUSA) appreciates the President and Secretary Lutnick’s recognition that investment-based immigration initiatives have driven incredible growth in the U.S. economy. Since its inception over 35 years ago, the EB-5 immigrant investor program has attracted over $55 billion in foreign direct investment to the US from heavily vetted immigrant investors, which has created over 1.4 million American jobs across the country and billions of dollars in tax revenues for federal, state and local governments – all at no cost to the American people or the government.
As the investment-based immigration industry’s leading advocate, IIUSA has been at the forefront of driving reforms and policies to ensure integrity, increased job creation and economic growth and the long-term success of the EB-5 program. These efforts culminated in the passage of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 which strengthened oversight, increased transparency, enhanced investor protections, mandated background checks, improved fund tracking and expanded USCIS enforcement to ensure integrity and prevent fraud in the EB-5 program.
IIUSA looks forward to working with the Administration and Secretary Lutnick to achieve the President’s bold vision and to ensure that investment-based immigration programs like EB-5 continue to be a powerful tool to drive new U.S. jobs creation and economic growth. Our government affairs team is already hard at work.
Please join us on Thurs., March 6, for a live webinar featuring IIUSA and leading EB-5 stakeholders as they discuss the President’s bold plan, ways to increase job creation and economic development, potential paths forward, legislative and regulatory opportunities and more.
The EB-5 Program: Strengthening Our Industry Through Opportunity
A Webinar by IIUSA
Thurs., March 6 | 12 pm ET
We will continue to engage with EB-5 stakeholders in the coming weeks to discuss how these developments will shape the future of investment-based immigration. You can lend your support to our effort by becoming an IIUSA member today.
We look forward to seeing you at this important webinar on March 6. If you have any questions or would like to share your perspectives in advance of the webinar, please contact [email protected] to reach a member of the IIUSA staff.
