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Form I-924 and I-924A

Also called I-924, I-924A, Form I-924, Form I-924A, Application For Regional Center Designation Under the Immigrant Investor Program, Annual Certification of Regional Center.

Form I-924, Application For Regional Center Designation Under the Immigrant Investor Program, and its annual companion Form I-924A, Annual Certification of Regional Center, are the pre-2022 regional center filings that USCIS has archived and no longer accepts, because the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 repealed the appropriations provision they ran on.

What it decides

Both USCIS pages carry an Archived Content banner and, under Where to File, state that USCIS is not currently accepting the form because Congress repealed section 610 of Public Law 102-395 in the 2022 Act, Division BB of Public Law 117-103, sections 101 and 102. Form I-924 sought regional center designation, made mandatory or optional amendments, and could request a preliminary determination of EB-5 compliance on an exemplar Form I-526; Form I-924A was the annual certification. That work now sits in the statute: designation and amendment on Form I-956 under 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(E), the annual statement on Form I-956G under 1153(b)(5)(G). Neither archived page names Form I-956G, so that mapping rests on the statute. Old approvals survive. The Policy Manual says an I-924 exemplar approved before the Act is generally binding on associated petitions, that a center taking investors under the Act must still file Form I-956F, and that a change made only to comply with the Act is not a material change. The archived pages still display the old fees, $17,795 and $3,035, for filings USCIS will not take.

Governed by USCIS pages uscis.gov/i-924, last reviewed 21 April 2022, and uscis.gov/i-924a, last reviewed 11 July 2022, both marked Archived Content, for the form titles, the uses of Form I-924, the refusal to accept, and the repeal of section 610 of Pub. L. 102-395 by the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022, Division BB of Pub. L. 117-103, sections 101 and 102; 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(E) for designation and amendment on Form I-956 and 1153(b)(5)(G) for the annual statement on Form I-956G, neither of which is named on the archived pages, so that mapping rests on the statute; USCIS Policy Manual Volume 6, Part G, Chapter 5, Section C, for the continuing force of an approved I-924 exemplar, the Form I-956F requirement, and the material change carve-out. The archived pages still show fees of $17,795 for I-924 and $3,035 for I-924A that are no longer payable.

Where this is explained properly

Pages here that go into form i-924 and i-924a rather than mentioning it.

Related terms

  • Form I-956Form I-956, Application for Regional Center Designation, is the application an economic unit files to be designated by USCIS as an EB-5 regional center under INA 203(b)(5)(E), or to amend a designation it already holds.
  • Form I-956GForm I-956G, Regional Center Annual Statement, is the yearly filing every designated regional center must submit to support its continued eligibility for designation, accounting for investor capital, project progress, fees collected from investors and required compliance certifications.
  • Form I-956FForm I-956F, Application for Approval of an Investment in a Commercial Enterprise, is the application a designated regional center must file for each particular investment offering before any investor may petition on that offering.
  • ExemplarAn exemplar was a sample Form I-526 filed with a Form I-924 for an actual project, so that USCIS reviewed the enterprise's organizational and transactional documents once and gave that determination deference in later investor petitions. USCIS now uses the word in the past tense: there is no exemplar filing after 15 March 2022.
  • Regional centerA regional center is an economic unit, public or private, that USCIS has designated to sponsor pooled EB-5 investment within a defined, contiguous and limited geographic area, and it is the only route on which a petition may count indirect and induced jobs.

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