{"id":554,"date":"2012-08-22T19:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:39:51","slug":"eb-5-rural-area-designations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"EB-5 Rural Area Designations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m interested in purchasing a business in the US in order to qualify as an immigrant investor through the EB5 program.\u00a0I want to invest the least amount possible which I understand is $500k.\u00a0This requires a business to be in a rural area.\u00a0What exactly qualifies as a rural area?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These qualifying areas are determined by the US Census and locations can be found through their web site here: <a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/00000.html\">http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/00000.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in purchasing a business in the US in order to qualify as an immigrant investor through the EB5 program.\u00a0I want to invest the least amount possible which I understand is $500k.\u00a0This requires a business to be in a rural area.\u00a0What exactly qualifies as a rural area? These qualifying areas are determined by the &#8230; <a title=\"EB-5 Rural Area Designations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=554\" aria-label=\"Read more about EB-5 Rural Area Designations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eb5","tag-eb5"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}