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Ted Poe: If we want to encourage development in the United States and other regions of the world, why are 80 percent of EB-5…

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
If we want to encourage development in the United States and other regions of the world, why are 80 percent of EB-5 visas year-in and year-out going to China when they could go to places like Nigeria or Brazil or Italy, et cetera?
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Ted Poe
Republican · Texas

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Questions the allocation of EB-5 visas primarily to China instead of other countries.

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