{"id":48048,"date":"2016-09-19T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-an-appetite-for-green-cards-drives-eb-5-investors-to-chef-driven-restaurants-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:49:03","slug":"el-apetito-por-la-green-card-impulsa-a-los-inversores-eb-5-a-los-restaurantes-dirigidos-por-chefs-en-la-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-apetito-por-la-green-card-impulsa-a-los-inversores-eb-5-a-los-restaurantes-dirigidos-por-chefs-en-la-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"An Appetite for Green Cards Drives EB-5 Investors to Chef-Driven Restaurants in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prngen2{\nBORDER-TOP:1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:1pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: BOTTOM; BORDER-BOTTOM:1pt; PADDING-LEFT:0.50em; BORDER-LEFT:1pt; PADDING-RIGHT:0.50em\n}\n.prntblns{\nBORDER-TOP: 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT: 1pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: 1pt\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MIAMI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 19, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Chef-driven restaurants in <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span> are increasingly turning to foreign capital to fund the expansion of their concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Chefs and restaurant operators are tapping foreign investors to invest <span class=\"xn-money\">$500,000<\/span> in exchange for U.S. residency under the EB-5 Investor Visa Program. Restaurants are highly popular with EB-5 investors because they create a significant number of jobs, the main requirement to obtain residency for the investors and their families, said <span class=\"xn-person\">Roger A. Bernstein<\/span>, co-owner of American Life Investment LLC regional center. Mr. Bernstein is rebranding ALI as &#8220;EB-5 for Florida Regional Center&#8221; to expand its focus to include chef-driven restaurants and small- to mid-size projects across <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>. EB-5 for Florida Regional Center is currently raising capital for two successful and popular restaurant brands in <span class=\"xn-location\">South Florida<\/span>: Tap 42 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tap42eb5.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.tap42eb5.com\/<\/a>) and Meat Market Steakhouse (<a href=\"https:\/\/meatmarketeb5.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/meatmarketeb5.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>For information on EB-5 for Florida Regional Center visit <a href=\"https:\/\/eb5forflorida.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/eb5forflorida.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact <\/b><b>+1 (305) 455-3217<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are many investors who prefer smaller projects that can be completed relatively fast,&#8221; said Bernstein, who is a veteran immigration attorney in Miami.\u00a0 &#8220;Also, it is easier for them to understand how a chef-driven concept will create jobs, pay them interest on their loan, pay them back their investment and get their family the green card.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Latin American investors are increasingly applying for EB-5 visas and investing in restaurants ran by experience operators as a means to obtain their green card. Since 2008, the number of EB-5 investors from <span class=\"xn-location\">Venezuela<\/span> has jumped 93.6 %, from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> 85.5 % and from <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span> 82.3 %.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Miami Beach<\/span>-based Meat Market is an example of a chef-driven concept that has attracted those investors to help fund the opening of its <span class=\"xn-location\">Palm Beach<\/span> restaurant in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In less than two years, investors are on their way to obtaining conditional residency, more than sufficient jobs have already been created and the investors are on track to have their capital returned by year five,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">David Tornek<\/span>, co-owner of Meat Market now expanding across <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>EB-5 for Florida Regional Center is raising up to <span class=\"xn-money\">$10 million<\/span> to bring Meat Market to <span class=\"xn-location\">Tampa<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Fort Lauderdale<\/span> and downtown <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami<\/span>. The regional center is also raising <span class=\"xn-money\">$10 million<\/span> to bring Tap 42 to Midtown Miami, <span class=\"xn-location\">West Palm Beach<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami Beach<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Aventura<\/span>. <\/p>\n<div>\n<table id=\"convertedTable393a\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"1\" class=\"prntblns\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Media inquiries:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">\u00a0Paola Iuspa-Abbott<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">1.305.726.5848<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:paola@topofmind-pr.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"prnews_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">paola@topofmind-pr.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p\/>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MIAMI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 19, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Chef-driven restaurants in <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span> are increasingly turning to foreign capital to fund the expansion of their concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Chefs and restaurant operators are tapping foreign investors to invest <span class=\"xn-money\">$500,000<\/span> in exchange for U.S. residency under the EB-5 Investor Visa Program. Restaurants are highly popular with EB-5 investors because they create a significant number of jobs, the main&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}