Instructions For Application For Regional Center Designation Under The Immigrant Investor Program ( Form I-924)

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Instructions for Application for Regional Center Designation
Under the Immigrant Investor Program
USCIS
Form I-924
Department of Homeland Security
OMB No. 1615-0061
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Expires 12/31/2018
What Is the Purpose of Form I-924?
Form I-924, Application for Regional Center Designation Under the Immigrant Investor Program, is used by any
economic unit, public or private, in the United States that is involved with promoting economic growth (including
increased export sales, improved regional productivity, job creation, or increased domestic capital investment) to:
1. Ask U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to be designated as a regional center under the Immigrant
Investor Program; or
2. Request an amendment to a previously approved regional center.
A. You must file an amendment to:
(1) Seek approval for any changes to the regional center’s name, ownership, or organizational structure, or any
changes to the regional center’s administration that affect its oversight and reporting responsibilities, or to add
or remove any of the regional center’s principals, immediately following the changed circumstances; or
(2) Change the geographic area of a regional center.
B. You may also file an amendment to:
(1) Change the industries of focus of the regional center;
(2) Add a new commercial enterprise associated with the regional center and/or seek a preliminary determination
of EB-5 compliance for an exemplar Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Entrepreneur, for that new
commercial enterprise, before individual entrepreneurs file their petitions; or
(3) Notify USCIS of changes in the name, organizational structure or administration, capital investment
instruments, or offering memoranda (including changes in the economic analysis and underlying business
plan used to estimate job creation) for a previously added new commercial enterprise associated with the
regional center.
NOTE: An I-924 amendment is not required to report changes of address, contact information, a change
of duties among the regional center principals, changes to non-principal managing companies, contracting
agents or similar changes, or information described in Item 2.B. above. The regional center must notify
USCIS within 30 days of such changes. Notification of these changes can be made by sending an email to
the EB-5 Program mailbox at: USCIS.ImmigrantInvestorProgram@dhs.gov. USCIS will review any
changes submitted by email and may require or recommend, as appropriate, the regional center to file an I-924
Amendment.
When Must Form I-924A, Annual Certification of Regional Center, Be Filed?
Each approved regional center must file Form I-924A, Annual Certification of Regional Center, for each federal fiscal year
(October 1 through September 30) on or before December 29 of the calendar year in which the federal fiscal year ended.
An Approved Regional Center
With a designated letter dated:
Must file an initial Form I-924A:
On/before September 30
On/before December 29 of the same calendar year
On/after October 1
On/before December 29 of the following calendar year
Form I-924 Instructions 12/23/16 N
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