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IM Yearbook 2023

The completely new IM Yearbook 2023 is the 5th edition of what is now known as the most anticipated guide of the Investment Migration industry. The IM Yearbook is the essential global reference tool for the industry by the industry. Offering unrivaled valuable access to a prime targeted readership of your partners, clients and potential new business сontacts. Decision-makers in more than 54 countries trust the publication as a reputable source of information and guide. Readership includes: agents, law firms, advisory firms, banks, wealth managers, service providers, policy makers, government staffers, international organisations, and academics. Providing comprehensive, in-depth information about the global Investment Migration industry, the IM Yearbook 2023 will offer readers a practical A-Z guide to the current business operating environment while also highlighting the depth and breadth of practitioners, programmes, and their partners of all types.

The completely new IM Yearbook 2023 is the 5th edition of what is now known as the most anticipated guide of the Investment Migration industry.

The IM Yearbook is the essential global reference tool for the industry by the industry. Offering unrivaled valuable access to a prime targeted readership of your partners, clients and potential new business сontacts. Decision-makers in more than 54 countries trust the publication as a reputable source of information and guide. Readership includes: agents, law firms, advisory firms, banks, wealth managers, service providers, policy makers, government staffers, international organisations, and academics.

Providing comprehensive, in-depth information about the global Investment Migration industry, the IM Yearbook 2023 will offer readers a practical A-Z guide to the current business operating environment while also highlighting the depth and breadth of practitioners, programmes, and their partners of all types.

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be beneficial to the entire EB-5 industry<br />

and could be a “huge support in the next<br />

battle with Congress”. Vaziri concludes:<br />

“In our industry, we often get so bogged<br />

down with regulations, with fund raising<br />

and yes, also, with competing. We easily<br />

forget about the end users, but without the<br />

investors our industry wouldn’t exist.”<br />

Vaziri also sits on the board of<br />

directors of IIUSA, the trade association<br />

for the EB-5 regional centre programme.<br />

“When I ran for the board of directors at<br />

IIUSA in 2018, there wasn’t a single person<br />

on the board who was an immigrant,”<br />

he says. Today, the situation is different<br />

as he has been joined by another board<br />

member originally from Turkey.<br />

But Vaziri does not want to stop<br />

there. He wants more change and has<br />

fresh ideas: “In the US, there are about<br />

70.000 to 80.000 EB-5 investors, and<br />

they don’t really have a voice. While<br />

there are several investor associations,<br />

they are very fragmented. I think<br />

there’s a need for a membership-based<br />

investor organisation,” he explains.<br />

When the EB-5 progamme lapsed<br />

in 2021, there was a huge vacuum of<br />

information and a lot of uncertainty among<br />

investors. “But investors need a reliable<br />

source of information and an independent<br />

body they can turn to,” he says.<br />

Vaziri envisions a membershipbased<br />

investor organisation would also<br />

Abteen Vaziri currently<br />

BIO serves as a Managing<br />

Director at Brevet Capital<br />

Management, a position he has held<br />

since June 2018. He previously served<br />

as a director at Greystone & Co,<br />

an institutional real estate lender,<br />

and helped build Greystone’s EB-5<br />

real estate financing platform. He<br />

is also a board member of IIUSA.<br />

Investment Migration <strong>Yearbook</strong> 2O23 - 27

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