三个月之前，国土安全局(DHS)在联邦公告网上发布了一份名为《EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization》(EB-5投资移民项目现代化改革)的拟议法规通知，建议将最低投资额从100万美金上涨到180万美金，上涨率为80%。目标就业区(TEA)的最低投资从50万美金上涨到135万美金，上涨率为170%。此外，DHS建议从法规生效后，每5年根据城市消费者物价指数CPI-U对投资金额进行调整。（点击查看提案内容）
DHS给公众3个月时间，直到2017年4月11日（今天是最后一天了！），可以到联邦电子法规制定门户（http://www.regulations.gov）提出对于该法规的意见和建议。
还没有提交意见的朋友要抓紧行动起来，我们需要在法规生效前，推动国会立法改革，否则我们将面临的是投资金额上涨至135万和180万美金。
意见提交流程如下：
1. 移民局法规改革提案的链接：https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=USCIS-2016-0006；
2. 在“Primary Documents”栏，选择“Comment Now”按钮；
3. 进入Comment页面，在Comment对话框，输入你的意见；
4. 输入“First Name - 名”和“Last Name - 姓”，这是必选项，按照网站要求可以匿名提交意见，只需要输入“Anonymous”或者其他你想输入的名字。
5. 点击“continue - 继续”；
6. 进入预览页面，在“I read and understand the statement above”选项前面打勾，再选择“submit comment”提交意见；
7. 成功；
注：为了方便朋友们，手机参与，可以点击左下角的“阅读原文”，将直接通过微信跳到提交意见的页面，但是微信不能直接打开该页面，按照下面的方式，在页面的右上角，选择通过浏览器打开该页面，这样就会很流畅，整个过程大概2-3分钟。
1. 点击左下角“阅读原文”，页面打不开。
2. 在微信中，右上角，选择在“浏览器”中打开页面。
3. 通过手机浏览器，直接进入提交意见的页面。
4. 输入自己的意见，或者“拷贝／黏贴”本文的参考意见，输入姓名，点击“continue”，在“I read and understand the statement above”选项前面打勾，再选择“submit comment”提交意见。
英文不是很好的朋友可以参考以下各方意见：
EB5investors杂志Ali的参考意见：
The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposes a number of amendments that would greatly change the EB-5 program and the stakeholders within the EB-5 program. The proposed rules will increase the minimum investment amount for high employment areas from $1 million to $1.8 million, and increase the minimum investment amount for targeted employment areas from $500,000 to $1.3 million. This increase in the minimum investment amount is very high and will stagnate the flow of EB-5 capital into the United States.
In addition, if the proposed rules are to be finalized and published, we ask that current projects and petitions be grandfathered. If a project has been filed or approved, the minimum investment amounts should not change and the old amounts should be honored. Not doing so would affect project completion timeline and job creation count as the project would need to be revised to take into consideration new investment amounts and job counts.
Ali意见的大意是，涨价得太高，而且就算要涨价，也不要影响现有和老的项目及申请。
IIUSA给的参考意见为：
As a stakeholder of the EB-5 Regional Center industry, I support the comments submitted by the industry trade association, Invest in the USA (IIUSA). I also respectfully submit the following comments:The Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) and Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) published in the Federal Register by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in January 2017 pose many threats to the life and vitality of the EB-5 Regional Center Program and these measures must be carefully looked at as their repercussions would be at the detriment to thousands of American jobs and the families and communities that rely upon them all across our nation. I support reasonable and responsible reform of the Program to deter fraud and provide oversight while ensuring the Program is able to thrive for many years to come, providing capital to regional economic development projects.
Raising the minimum investment amount, as proposed in the NPRM, to $1.8 million for non-TEA investments and $1.3 million for TEA investments will destroy the program. It will reduce the number of investors down to levels not seen since the 1990s and would result in dramatically lower EB-5 investment and job creation in the U.S., hurting the very communities that rely upon it. Furthermore, as state in IIUSA’s comments, I believe that a dramatic 360% increase in investment amount will make the EB-5 program less competitive with other programs around the world which require little to no risk to the investor, unlike the U.S. program.
Given these points, it is important to keep the U.S. program competitive in the international market by not over-inflating the increased investment amount. It is also important to keep in mind that with any targeted employment area (TEA) reform, a majority of investors would likely be moving from TEA-qualified investment amounts (or the lower amount) to non-TEA-qualified amounts (or the higher amount). The proposed rule would result in a 360% increase for most investments. It is difficult to imagine a dramatic increase in the investment price would not result in a dramatic decrease in demand for the American EB-5 program, thus, cause a significantly negative impact on EB-5 jobs and investment in America.
TEA reform is needed in order to help enhance the Regional Center Program as an economic development tool and allow for a more even playing field that eliminates the “gerrymandering” criticism of the current statute. A TEA policy mapping tool is available that visualizes the impact of various TEA policy reforms that have been introduced over the course of reform discussions. It is available at iiusa.org/eb-5-tea-policy-proposals-analytic-mapping-tool/
I am supportive of measures that increase program integrity, deter fraud, and overall make the Program a stronger, more sustainable economic development tool and making these reforms through the legislative process. I encourage DHS to use the tools available to them, including working with industry stakeholders and Congress, to ensure a viable and sustainable future for the EB-5 Program.
IIUSA意见的大意是，我支持IIUSA，涨价幅度太大，移民局应该与行业机构和国会合作，改革EB-5。
EB5Sir的意见为：
EB-5 is different, since it asks for “at risk” investment, needs 10 full time jobs to be created, and takes more than 10 years of whole process for Chinese investors due to visa backlog issue. None of other investment immigration programs is so risky and time consuming. If USCIS would like to raise the minimum investment, please solve the visa backlog issue together. Otherwise, EB-5 will be killed.
大意是，EB-5与别的投资移民计划不同，要求“风险”要求就业而且有排期，如果要涨价，一起解决排期。
请各位朋友们，现在就拿起手机，或者通过电脑，英文好的自己写点意见，吃力的可以就上面意见复制粘贴，提交给移民局。
最后一天，让我们抓紧时间，都行动起来吧！
（本文系移民超市综合编辑，部分内容来源美国EB5一点通）
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