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PORT MOODY · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Does calling a project infrastructure lower the amount I must invest?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Not by itself. As of 7 September 2026 the standard figure is US$1,050,000, reduced to US$800,000 only where the investment genuinely qualifies as a targeted employment area or infrastructure investment. The reduction depends on documented facts about the project, so ask which evidence supports the claim before budgeting around the lower number.

Fund the higher figure until the lower one is proven

A practical approach is to plan financing at the standard amount while the classification is examined, then release the difference only if counsel confirms the reduced basis. That order avoids a shortfall discovered after funds are committed and partly spent. Ask for the analysis in writing, with the documents it relies on identified.

Also confirm the applicable figures close to filing: statutory adjustments to these amounts begin in 2027, and the number that matters is the one in force when the petition is filed. It also helps to know which document would settle the point. For a targeted employment area claim, the basis is usually a designation resting on identified statistical data for a defined area; for an infrastructure claim, it is the statutory description applied to the project's actual contracting arrangements with a governmental entity.

Either way, the answer lives in documents that can be read and dated, not in a description of what the project does for the public. Ask which of the two is being claimed, ask for the underlying material, and treat a refusal to provide it as information in itself rather than as a procedural inconvenience.