Investor-owned EB-5
Invest $800,000 in an American Oil Company.
This Investment Qualifies for a Green Card.
of distributed profits to EB-5 investors, paid as annual dividend distributions while investor capital is outstanding and as profit distributions once all investor capital has been repaid.
The minimum is $800,000 until December 31, 2026
The rural EB-5 minimum is scheduled to adjust for inflation on January 1, 2027. Projections put it near $937,500. Filing on or before September 30, 2026 also keeps a petition eligible for adjudication if the Regional Center Program is not reauthorized after its authorization expires on September 30, 2027. Neither date guarantees approval.
EB5 Energy is an oil company drilling eight wells in rural Oklahoma. EB-5 investors own the fund that controls it, which gives them an indirect ownership interest in the business and its assets.
- I-956F Approved
- Two Investor Petitions Approved
- Rural Priority Processing
- 3-Year Targeted Capital Repayment
Investment returns and repayment timing are targets, not guarantees. Please review the offering documents for complete terms and risks.
The reason for the investment comes first
An Approved Project, and the Jobs to Support It.
The financial structure matters. So does the underlying oil business. But for an EB-5 investor, the immigration objective is fundamental.
EB5 Energy was structured from the beginning as a rural EB-5 project, and USCIS has reviewed and approved the project’s I-956F.
Investors have already done this. Petitions have been filed on this project and USCIS has approved two of them — decisions on individual investors, not on the project alone.
Two investor petitions approved
USCIS has approved I-526E petitions for two EB5 Energy investors. Those are decisions on individual petitions already filed on this project — not projections of how it might be adjudicated later.
Each petition is decided on its own facts, including the investor’s source of funds. An approval for one investor is not an assurance for another.
I-956F approved
USCIS has reviewed the project’s business plan, economic study and EB-5 structure and approved the I-956F project application.
Rural priority processing
Because EB5 Energy is located in a qualifying rural area, investor I-526E petitions are eligible for the priority processing provided to rural EB-5 investments.
An immigration attorney on rural priority 1:34above what the approved investor count requires
Qualifying jobs here are generated by money spent drilling and completing wells and by revenue from selling what they produce. Across the full 72-well program the economic study projects more than 2,200 qualifying jobs against the 1,500 that 150 investors require — computed at $72 a barrel, the price filed with USCIS.
20% rural visa set-aside
Twenty percent of annual EB-5 visas are reserved for qualifying rural investments.
Priority Is Set by the Order You File.
In any pooled EB-5 project an investor’s immigration outcome depends on the raise completing and the project being built, which is why prospective investors often wait to see others commit first. EB5 Energy addresses that structurally rather than by reassurance: investors join in classes, and both qualifying-job allocation and repayment priority follow the order in which investors commit and file. An earlier class claims its qualifying jobs ahead of every class that follows it.
The eight wells now being funded do not wait on the EB-5 raise filling — private investor capital funds the balance of their cost. So the question underneath the hesitation, whether the wells actually get drilled, does not turn on how quickly the remaining subscriptions arrive. The practical consequence is that waiting does not reduce an investor’s exposure. It moves them behind the investors who filed first.
Class priority is an ordering for job allocation and repayment. It is not a guarantee of petition approval, of a return, or of a repayment date.
Some of that risk is the investor’s own. An EB-5 investor has individual requirements — documenting the lawful source and path of investment funds, and satisfying admissibility. The project’s side is satisfying the EB-5 project requirements and creating the qualifying jobs attributed to investors, and EB5 Energy is structured to address that.
A fundamentally different EB-5 structure
Own It Like a Private Equity Investor. Qualify Like an EB-5 Investor.
A private equity investor buying into an oil and gas program takes ownership and shares in the profits. That is the position an EB5 Energy investor takes, with one difference: this structure is also built to qualify for EB-5.
In a conventional EB-5 investment, investors lend their capital to a developer who owns the project and controls its assets and cash flow. Repayment of the EB-5 loan is the developer’s obligation, on the developer’s timetable.
With EB5 Energy, the investors are the equity holders.
Investors own the fund that controls the company operating the wells. Management runs the business on their behalf and is paid its profit interest only after investor capital has been recouped.
| Typical EB-5 Loan | EB5 Energy |
|---|---|
| Typical EB-5 loan:Investors lend to a developer | EB5 Energy:Investors own the fund controlling the operating company |
| Typical EB-5 loan:Developer owns the underlying project | EB5 Energy:Investors have an indirect ownership interest in the project assets |
| Typical EB-5 loan:Investor return is generally limited to interest | EB5 Energy:Investors participate in the economics of the business |
| Typical EB-5 loan:Repayment often depends on refinancing or sale | EB5 Energy:Repayment is targeted from operating cash flow |
| Typical EB-5 loan:Investment economics generally end at repayment | EB5 Energy:Economic participation can continue after capital is returned |
Count the Steps Before Repayment
In a construction-backed EB-5 loan, repayment usually waits on a sequence. The building has to be completed. It has to be leased. It has to generate stable income. Then the developer has to refinance or sell it, on terms good enough to repay the EB-5 loan. Each step depends on the one before it, and the last two depend on lending and property markets as they are years from now.
An oil well is a shorter chain. It is drilled and producing in about 30 days, and cash flow follows within about 60 — sold through a pipeline connection that already exists. Repayment of capital is targeted at year three, and investors share in profits from then on. No bank and no buyer has to agree to any of it.
That is a shorter chain, not an absent one. Wells can underperform, drilling can be delayed, and the price of oil moves in both directions. The difference is the number of things that have to go right — and how many of them depend on someone else agreeing.
Investors Come Before Management
The order of distributions isn’t simply management’s intention. It is established in the company’s governing agreement.
Investor capital is recouped before management begins participating in profits.
EB-5 investors hold a 50% share of what the NCE receives. One entitlement, paid in two phases.
While investor capital is outstanding, the operating company pays the NCE a 9% annual dividend. After NCE operating costs, the remainder is split evenly between the managing partner and the EB-5 investors — currently estimated at 2.25% a year on the $800,000 investment.
Once all investor capital has been repaid, the same even split applies to profits. The NCE is entitled to 70% of profits; half of that is 35% of distributed profits to EB-5 investors.
The dividend is the first phase of that share, not an addition to it.
An investor does not buy a share of a particular well. The investment buys limited partnership interests in EB5 Energy Fund I, which holds equity in the company that owns the wells — so the interest is not confined to the wells drilled first. The approved I-956F covers the company at up to 72 wells and 150 EB-5 investors, and mineral rights are secured for the first eight, which are being funded now.
What a well costs, where the acreage is, and what has already been produced from it →
Percentages are of distributed profits. The EB-5 investors’ share is paid as dividend distributions while their capital is outstanding and as profit distributions afterwards; management participates only once investor capital has been recouped. These are shares, not a projection of amount or timing.
That’s what alignment means in the EB5 Energy structure.
The short version
$800,000 into an American oil company, in a rural area USCIS has already approved.
Investors own the fund that controls the company. While their capital is outstanding they receive annual dividend distributions; once all investor capital has been repaid they share 35% of distributed profits. Two investors have already filed on this project and USCIS has approved both petitions.
The minimum is $800,000 until December 31, 2026.
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