Trump Looms as Kushner Companies Courts Investors in China -<br />By KEITH BRADSHER, AILIN TANG and JESSE DRUCKERMAY 7, 2017<br />SHANGHAI — Like many American firms that come to China looking for money, Kushner Companies tried to<br />woo a Shanghai audience with promises of big returns and a path toward living in the United States.<br />Kushner Companies’ China roadshow, promoting $500,000 investments in New Jersey real estate as the path to a residency<br />card in the United States, moved to Shanghai on Sunday after a similar pitch on Saturday in Beijing.<br />As on Saturday in Beijing, one slide that was presented to the Shanghai audience, describing who will decide the future of the<br />visa program for foreign investors, included a photograph of Mr. Trump, as shown by a snapshot taken by an audience member.<br />The so-called EB-5 visa program awards foreign investors the right to live in the United States for two years<br />and a path to permanent residency, in exchange for investments of at least $500,000 in American development projects.<br />Ms. Bi, who is 34 and is expecting her first child, said, “I want my child to live in a relatively relaxed environment where he or she could be himself or herself<br />and lead a diverse life, instead of having no choice but to take the college entrance exam in China.”<br />Still, she said, investing in the Kushner project would not give her and her husband enough time to get to the United States before her baby was born.<br />Kushner Companies has tapped the program before: The firm raised about $50 million from Chinese investors in EB-5<br />funding for another project in Jersey City, a Trump-branded luxury apartment tower that opened in late 2016.
