According to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, your investment must create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years of issuance of your conditional green card. Full-time jobs are defined as requiring at least 35 hours of work per week and must be filled by U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or other authorized immigrants, but do not include the investor and their family. In a direct investment, only jobs that were created by the business directly count, while investments made through a Regional Center may also count indirect and induced jobs created by the Regional Center project in addition to direct jobs. So, investments through a Regional Center provide more options for meeting the job creation requirement.