HK Motors Still Plans to Fund Alabama Facility Through EB-5 Program

Once again, the media is talking about the EB-5 Visa Program in Alabama. According to Alabama Live, California-based HK Motors is still planning to build a manufacturing facility in coastal Baldwin County, and the company is using foreign investment to secure much of the funding. If this project materializes as planned, it could be a [...]

Hybrid Startup Hopes to Build Cars in Alabama, EB-5 visa project for ACFI

Startup company Hybrid Kinetic Motors showed off its first concept car at a Montgomery, Ala., hotel in hopes of building support for its bid to build cars in that state. The Italian-designed Quaranta concept is part of an effort to convince state lawmakers to provide tax breaks and other economic incentives to the startup company. [...]

EB-5 Investor Visa story by NPR: Recession Fuels Spike In Foreign Investor Visas

National Public Radio’s Jennifer Ludden has produced a very balanced and informative piece on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa program. In the audio broadcast published today, she speaks with an English investor about his investment in the Marriott Hotel project run by EB-5 principal Henry Liebman of the American Life Seattle Regional Center, as well [...]

ACFI becomes the largest EB-5 Regional Center in the U.S.

Boyd Campbell of the Alabama Center for Foreign Investment has confirmed to USAdvisors that ACFI has received approval from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in its request for expansion into four neighboring States: Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee.  The request was granted on October 21, 2009. This now makes the Alabama Center [...]

Strategy for funding hybrid auto plant in Baldwin emerges

Strategy for funding hybrid auto plant in Baldwin emerges Saturday, September 26, 2009 By CRAIG MYERS Staff Reporter BAY MINETTE — Crucial to a Chinese company’s plans to bring a hybrid automobile factory to north Baldwin County is a little-known U.S. government program that encourages immigrant investment in exchange for a path to citizenship. Nearly [...]

Alabama Center for Foreign Investment

Boyd Campbell (left), Maria Elena Garcia and Ron Drinkard at the ACFI Head Office in Montgomery, Alabama