[Animats]

There's already a visa deal for foreign investors, the EB-5 visa. You have to invest at least $1M ($0.5M if you're willing to invest in a bad area of the US) and create 10 jobs.

That's why downtown Palo Alto has all those rug stores.

[arcticbull]

There's also E-2 visas you can get (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa) to run your own business with a much smaller investment (15-100K) assuming you're a citizen of a treaty country.

[stringlytyped]

The problem with the E-2 visa is that you never become eligible to apply for a green card.

[gorkemyurt]

http://thesfshipyard.com and http://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com are both eb-5 eligible projects, I wouldn't call them bad areas..

[nojvek]

Anyone here who came down the EB-5 visa that can tell us their experience?

[chrisper]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/realestate/want-a-green-ca...