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$500000 for Mirzam Investor Green Card Program
by Nicola Jenvey: Freelance Journalist
A LITTLE-known American immigration programme has the potential to open doors for South Africans seeking their green cards while simultaneously pumping millions of dollars into dilapidated inner cities and employment-starved rural areas across the US.
The governments obscure EB-5 programme, also called the immigration investment visa, offers potential foreign investors green cards when they invest $500000 into distressed areas.
Following the investment, the investor and immediate family become eligible for conditional green cards. They become permanent US citizens within a few years upon evidence that the investment had created a minimum of 10 jobs for US workers.
The programme has already seen substantial foreign investments into agriculture, tourism, renewable energy, education and transportation.
Mirzam Asset Management president Clifford Morris says that while European and UK professionals were seeking to emigrate to the US, they did not face the same challenges and limitations as South Africans.
The newly-launched Mirzam New Horizons Investor Green Card Programme provided the opportunity to both overcome those challenges and empower participants with a series of benefits including maximised capital transference, relocation support, education and workplace services for the entire family, health insurance services and attention to the details that made daily living worthwhile.
Mirzam has created an opportunity for successful South Africans to move their families and their assets to the US aided by the immigration investment visa programme that secures a green card and thus permanent status, he says.
Morris is the founder and MD of Florida-based Mirzam and its sister financial services investment company Sirius Financial Navigation based in South Africa.
He says Mirzam and Sirius could facilitate South Africans seeking the relocation with the New Horizons programme having access to a database of potential businesses that would benefit and qualify for the $500000 investment.
Morris recently hosted a series of investor seminars throughout South Africa aimed at establishing a network of people seeking to start new lives in the US. The US programme was also not limited to single $500000 investments, meaning a group of investors could potential club their allocations to establish or rejuvenate larger business entities.
Morris says Mirzam would also facilitate linkages between investors and federal government agencies to secure additional funding for large-scale funding. This paved the way for South Africans to establish multi-billion-dollar operations within the US, exporting their expertise and securing American citizenship in the process.
South Africans are too caught in their poor country cousin syndrome to recognise their international worth and it is blinding them to substantial business opportunities, specifically among first-world markets, Morris says.
He says South Africans should embrace their entrepreneurial spirit and sound problem-solving methodologies that have evolved from dealing with changing business dynamics at a pace not found in any other western country.
The reality is that South Africans can compete internationally and we need to grasp every opportunity we encounter. The US is one such example, offering a mind-blowing number of opportunities for business investment and entrepreneurship, he says.
Morris says Mirzam and Sirius could operate as an effective bridge between South Africa and the US given the knowledge both companies have in operating businesses in their respective countries.
The New Horizons methodology enabled Morris to seek out successful South African business models that could be exported to the US with the owners benefiting from the immigration investment visa.
Black economic empowerment and affirmative action policies have resulted in a host of South African skills and expertise lying dormant. This is an opportunity to capture those skills before they are wholly destroyed, he says.
For further information go to www.investorgreencard.com
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