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ROXTON POND · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

What does a Roxton Pond investor pay beyond the EB-5 capital itself?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Filing charges published in the official schedule, escrow and administrative fees where a project uses them, and professional costs for the source-of-funds work. The capital is not a payment at all: it must remain invested and at risk, which is precisely why it cannot be quoted as part of a single package price.

The capital is not a fee

Marketing material sometimes presents one all-in number, and that number quietly mixes three different things: money that must stay at risk in the enterprise, money paid to third parties and gone, and government charges that are published and verifiable. Separating them is the first piece of due diligence. The at-risk capital is the investment. For a post-RIA investment, the governing statute says that capital is expected to remain invested for not less than two years; the applicable start and end dates, and any need to remain invested longer while later job creation is completed, should be checked for the individual case rather than equated automatically with the entire conditional-residence period. Administrative or subscription fees paid to a project are costs, not investment, and should be identified as such. Professional fees for tracing source and path are frequently the largest advisory expense in the file, and are worth what they cost when the tracing is genuinely complex.

Hypothetical example: an applicant from Roxton Pond is quoted a single figure described as the total cost of the programme. Asking for a breakdown produces three columns rather than one, and the breakdown reveals which portion is recoverable only through the success of the business, which portion is gone on payment, and which portion is a published government charge that can be checked independently. That conversation also reveals how the promoter thinks, which is itself useful information before committing seven figures.