The EB-5 program expires September 30, 2026. Applications take months to prepare. The time to act is now.
AGO Immigration is a FINRA-registered EB-5 brokerage that evaluates deal structures from the inside — so you invest with a team you trust, file on time, and protect your capital.
No fees. No obligation. Alex is compensated by the project company — never by you.
You’ve done the research. You’ve visited the websites. Every EB-5 company says their project is the best — record approval rates, stunning developments, thousands of jobs created. But the details that actually matter to your capital — deal structure, repayment position, developer obligations — are buried in a thousand pages of offering documents.
Most investors don’t have the deal-side experience to evaluate those details on their own.
EB-5 projects are designed to present well — impressive developments, strong approval claims, polished materials. But what matters most to an investor isn’t how compelling the project looks. It’s how the deal is structured: where your capital sits, how it’s protected, and how repayment works.
Migration agents, project sales teams, and online forums all offer opinions. Most have no regulatory oversight and no liability if their advice falls short. You deserve guidance from someone who’s legally accountable to your interests.
Every month spent comparing projects without a clear strategy is another month in the visa backlog. A structured process with professional guidance keeps your timeline on track — especially with the September 2026 deadline ahead.
This is one of the biggest financial decisions your family will make. The project company’s sales team can explain their offering — but they represent the project, not you.
What changes the experience is having an independent professional in your corner. Someone who evaluates deal structures for a living, coordinates your legal team, manages your timeline, and is legally required to act in your best interest.
That’s the difference between navigating this process alone and investing with confidence.
Getting a green card is bare minimum. Getting your money back should be too. There’s no reason you should submit your application and spend the next five years wondering if your investment is safe.
— Alex Odenwalder, Founder, AGO Immigration
Most EB-5 brokers come from two backgrounds: they’re former immigration attorneys who switched to brokerage, or they went through the EB-5 process themselves and started advising others.
Alex is neither. He’s spent his entire career on the investment side of EB-5 — evaluating projects, analyzing deal structures, and managing investor relations for major industry issuers. He’s worked on some of the largest EB-5 developments in the country, given seminars across Asia, trained migration companies, and walked hundreds of investors through the process.
That decade of deal-side experience means he knows exactly where developers bury risk in offering documents — the clauses that let them extend repayment timelines, cash out equity before investors, or shift the financial burden onto EB-5 capital.
Today, he uses that knowledge to protect his clients instead.
Operating under a broker-dealer with full compliance oversight
Legally required to act in the investor’s best interest when making recommendations
Project structuring, investor relations, and due diligence from the inside
Fluent in Mandarin. Deep understanding of Chinese and Indian investor families
A common misconception: working with a broker costs more. It doesn’t. Like a mortgage broker or health insurance broker, Alex is compensated by the project company — not by you. The investment price is the same whether you go direct or work with AGO Immigration.
The difference is what you get for that same price.
You talk to their sales team — they represent the project, not you
Alex represents your interests, not the project’s
You evaluate offering documents on your own (thousands of pages)
Independent evaluation of deal structure, capital position, and repayment terms
You find your own immigration attorney
Connected to trusted immigration attorneys matched to your nationality and situation
You manage your own timeline
Full timeline management from consultation to application filing
You call them with questions — they respond when it’s convenient
Direct access to Alex — and when he calls a project company, they pick up
No independent evaluation of deal structure
Access to quality mid-sized projects with stronger structures that you’d never find through marketing alone
No regulatory accountability to you
FINRA-registered — legally accountable under regulatory oversight
You talk to their sales team — they represent the project, not you
You evaluate offering documents on your own (thousands of pages)
You find your own immigration attorney
You manage your own timeline
You call them with questions — they respond when it’s convenient
No independent evaluation of deal structure
No regulatory accountability to you
Alex represents your interests, not the project’s
Independent evaluation of deal structure, capital position, and repayment terms
Connected to trusted immigration attorneys matched to your nationality and situation
Full timeline management from consultation to application filing
Direct access to Alex — and when he calls a project company, they pick up
Access to quality mid-sized projects with stronger structures that you’d never find through marketing alone
FINRA-registered — legally accountable under regulatory oversight
Complete a short, confidential questionnaire to confirm you meet the basic requirements — investment capacity, financial accreditation, and timeline. Takes less than two minutes.
Alex reviews your situation personally — your goals, your family, your source of funds, and your timeline. He determines whether EB-5 is the right path for you and answers every question you have. No cost. No obligation.
Alex connects you with a trusted immigration attorney matched to your nationality and legal situation. Your attorney begins preparing your Source of Funds documentation — the most time-intensive part of the application. This step comes before project selection because SOF preparation can take weeks to months, and starting early ensures you don’t lose your preferred project to timing delays.
Once your Source of Funds is underway, Alex identifies vetted projects with strong capital preservation structures matched to your timeline. He walks you through the deal structure — not just the brochure — so you understand exactly where your money sits, how it’s protected, and when it comes back. Alex coordinates the full process through to filing — including concurrent filing for immediate work and travel authorization while your green card is processed.
Since 2022, EB-5 applicants can file concurrently for a work permit and travel permit at the same time as their green card application. That means you can receive legal authorization to work and travel in the United States while your green card is still being processed.
If you're on an H-1B, facing a layoff, or graduating without employer sponsorship — this changes everything. EB-5 concurrent filing gives you a path to stay that's independent of any employer.
That’s the real transformation. Not just a green card — but the feeling that you made the right decision, with the right people, and that no part of the process was left to chance.
You understood what you invested in. You had a team — broker, attorney, project company — working together. You were never alone in the process. No shady parties. No unanswered questions.
Live anywhere. Work for anyone — or yourself. No employer-dependent visa. No lottery. No waiting for someone else to decide your future.
In-state tuition for your children. Full access to the U.S. job market. A passport recognized in 185+ countries. An economy built for building.
Your $800,000 invested in a project with a sound structure and a clear repayment timeline — not locked up for a decade in a deal designed to benefit the developer.
Client identities shared with permission. Some details withheld for privacy.
This isn’t a marketing deadline. It’s a legal one. The current EB-5 Regional Center Program is set to expire at the end of September 2026. Source of Funds preparation alone takes one to three months — longer if your situation is complex.
Even if the program is renewed by Congress, the $800,000 minimum investment amount will almost certainly increase. Every month you wait, the visa backlog grows. If you’ve been researching — it’s time to decide.
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Nothing. Alex is compensated by the project company — like a mortgage broker or insurance broker. You invest the same amount whether you go direct or work with us. The difference is that you get independent project evaluation, deal structure analysis, and full process management at no additional cost.
Most brokers in this space are either former immigration attorneys or former EB-5 investors. Alex has spent 10 years on the project and investment side — working for four major EB-5 issuers including Related Companies (Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in U.S. history). He evaluates deal structures from the inside, not from the outside looking in. And as a FINRA-registered broker operating under Regulation Best Interest, he’s legally required to act in your best interest when making recommendations — a standard that unregistered agents and project sales teams simply don’t have.
Regulation Best Interest (Reg B-I) is a standard set by the SEC that requires broker-dealers to act in the best interest of their clients when making investment recommendations. In practice, this means Alex can’t just recommend whatever pays the highest commission or is easiest to sell. His broker-dealer’s compliance team reviews recommendations and processes. It’s not just Alex’s word — it’s an institutional framework with written disclosures, transparent processes, and regulatory accountability. Unregistered migration agents, project sales teams, and foreign-based intermediaries aren’t held to this standard.
FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) operates under SEC oversight and regulates broker-dealers and their registered representatives. Alex is legally required to verify that you’re an accredited investor before presenting any project. This registration creates a layer of legal accountability and compliance that protects you — something most migration agents and project sales teams don’t offer.
Especially then. The offering documents for EB-5 projects are thousands of pages long — mostly risk disclosures. The critical details about capital position, repayment structure, and developer obligations are often buried in single clauses that most investors (and even AI tools) miss entirely. Alex knows exactly where to look because he’s spent a decade building these documents from the other side.
You can. But when you call a project company, you’re talking to their sales team. They represent the project — not you. They have no obligation to evaluate whether the deal structure is favorable to EB-5 investors, and no liability if it isn’t. Alex provides independent evaluation and has the professional relationships to get answers and priority attention that individual investors typically don’t receive.
It may be. Since 2022, EB-5 allows concurrent filing — meaning you can apply for work authorization and travel authorization at the same time as your green card application. This gives you a legal path to remain in the U.S. that’s independent of any employer. Book a consultation and Alex will evaluate your specific situation, timeline, and options.
An EB-5 application includes the primary applicant, their spouse, and unmarried children under 21. The whole family is covered under a single investment. Individual family members can later choose to maintain or abandon their green card without affecting the others — useful for families where one parent may not want to take on U.S. global tax obligations.
That’s exactly why the September 2026 deadline matters. If the program expires and is not renewed, the current pathway closes. Applications take one to three months to prepare, and complex source-of-funds situations can add additional time. The safest approach is to begin now, even if you’re still evaluating — a consultation costs nothing and puts you ahead.
There is no completely “safe” investment — anyone who tells you otherwise isn’t being honest. What Alex does is evaluate the deal structure to ensure your capital is in a strong position: how the EB-5 money is layered relative to the developer’s equity and senior debt, whether the developer has meaningful skin in the game, what the default and repayment provisions actually say, and whether the timeline claims in the marketing match the legal documents. Capital preservation is the goal — and that starts with structure, not brochures.
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You already know you want to stay in the United States. You already know EB-5 is a path to get there. The only question is whether you go through the process alone — or with a team of professionals who’ve done this hundreds of times.
One conversation with Alex will give you more clarity than months of comparing brochures.
