This summer, the United States is welcoming the world, co-hosting the 2025 FIFA World Cup. Millions of international visitors are arriving for the largest sporting event ever hosted on American soil, with matches in 11 U.S. cities, including eight at MetLife Stadium, just across the river from CanAm’s New York headquarters.
Most of those visitors will return home with memories. But for some, the trip plants a different kind of question: what would it take to make the United States not just a destination, but a home?
It is a question CanAm Enterprises has been helping families answer for more than three decades.
Why the American Dream Still Draws Investors
The phrase “American Dream” can sound like a slogan. For the investor families we work with, it is something far more concrete. In our experience serving clients from more than 90 countries, the reasons they pursue U.S. permanent residency tend to fall into a few consistent themes:
Education. Access to American universities, and in-state tuition rates for permanent residents, is one of the most common motivations we hear from families. A green card gives children the ability to study, work, and build careers in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.
Stability and rule of law. Investors value the predictability of the U.S. legal and financial system. Property rights, contract enforcement, and an independent judiciary are not abstractions to families weighing where to put down roots.
Career and business freedom. Permanent residents can live and work anywhere in the United States, start businesses, and change employers freely. For entrepreneurs and professionals, that flexibility is often the deciding factor.
A permanent place for the next generation. Many of our investors are not primarily investing for themselves. They are securing options for their children and grandchildren.
What the EB-5 Program Offers
The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), connects qualifying investments in job-creating U.S. projects to a path toward permanent residency for the investor, their spouse, and their unmarried children under 21.
In broad strokes, the path looks like this:
- Invest in a qualifying project that creates at least 10 American jobs per investor.
- File Form I-526E, the petition that begins the immigration process for investors in regional center projects.
- Receive conditional permanent residency upon approval and visa availability.
- File Form I-829 to remove conditions and secure permanent green cards once the job creation requirements are met.
The EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 strengthened the program with new oversight, transparency, and investor protections, and created set-aside visa categories for rural and high unemployment area projects.
Choosing the Right Partner Matters
The EB-5 program’s promise depends heavily on execution: the quality of the project, the rigor of its structuring, and the experience of the regional center sponsoring it.
CanAm Enterprises was founded in 1987 and has spent more than 30 years in investment-linked immigration, including over two decades focused on the U.S. EB-5 program. That experience shows up in outcomes:
- 5,800+ I-526 and I-526E petition approvals for CanAm investors
- 9,300+ permanent green cards secured by investor families
- 3,000+ I-829 petition approvals, the final step in the EB-5 immigration journey
- 75+ EB-5 projects funded across sectors including real estate, life sciences, clean energy, and digital infrastructure
- 11 regional centers covering more than 30 states
Behind each of those numbers is a family that asked the same question many of this summer’s visitors are asking now.
The Conversation Starts Here
The 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament will end in July. The reasons people come to the United States, to study, to build, to invest, to belong, will not.
If you are visiting the U.S. this summer, or watching from home and wondering what a permanent path here might look like, CanAm’s investor relations team is available to talk. We have offices in New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, New Delhi, and Singapore, and we welcome conversations in the language and time zone that work for you.
