IIUSA

What it decides

IIUSA says it represents more than 200 regional center members and more than 120 service provider members. Its legal name is Immigrant Investors Association, Inc., doing business as Invest In the USA, and the IRS classifies it as a business league under 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(6), so contributions to it are not tax deductible. It runs a federal political action committee, registered with the Federal Election Commission on 6 December 2022, pays outside lobbying firms to work Congress on the regional center program and disclosed that spending through the second quarter of 2026, publishes data dashboards and the Regional Center Business Journal, and hosts the EB-5 Industry Forum, held in Washington DC from 29 April to 1 May 2026. USCIS has addressed the forum in the past, and the Immigrant Investor Program Office chief's remarks for 2018, 2019 and 2020 are posted on uscis.gov, but no serving USCIS official appears on the published 2026 speaker list. Treat the event as an industry gathering, not a government one. Its dashboards on visa issuance and petition volumes are built on Department of State and USCIS figures, so read those at the source instead. The numbers that originate with IIUSA are its job creation and economic impact estimates, and they may well be sound, but they come from a body whose members sell the product. Read them as a party's submission.

Governed by IIUSA, About (https://iiusa.org/about/) for the membership figures, which are the association's own claim and are not independently audited. Tax status and 2005 formation confirmed in IRS exempt organization filings, EIN 20-2897226, business league. PAC confirmed at FEC committee C00829671. Lobbying confirmed in Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. USCIS participation confirmed at Immigrant Investor Program Office, 2019 IIUSA EB-5 Industry Forum, Sarah M. Kendall remarks, 29 October 2019 (https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/checklists/2019_IIUSA_EB-5_Industry_Forum.pdf). No EB-5 statute or regulation creates, licenses or regulates the association, so no INA, 8 U.S.C. or 8 CFR provision governs it; the law that does apply is tax, election and lobbying law.

Where this is explained properly

Pages here that go into iiusa rather than mentioning it.

• Prepping for the IIUSA Industry Forum: What’s on the 2026 Agenda?
• Advocacy and Lobbying: Efforts to Shape EB-5 Policy