This is the question every serious investor asks, and the honest answer matters more than any reassurance.

Direct Investment Partnership is equity participation in a real operating business. Like any operating business, performance varies. Some ventures outperform projections. Some perform in line with them. Some underperform. We select operators, structure ventures, and build USCIS-compliance pathways specifically to reduce the probability and severity of underperformance, but we do not — and would not — guarantee outcomes.

What we do guarantee is alignment. DC Consulting's compensation depends on the partnership working. The operator's livelihood depends on the venture succeeding. Our incentives are structurally aligned with yours through the full five-year period. If a venture underperforms, we are partnered with you in navigating it — not insulated from it.

We are also direct about this during the Partnership Briefing. Investors who are not prepared to accept the operational risk of equity participation are typically better served by regional center investment, and we will say so.

Every operator in our portfolio is selected through a process that examines four areas. Commercial track record — what they have built before, with what outcomes, in what markets. Operational discipline — how they run a business day-to-day, how they handle reporting, how they treat partners and employees. USCIS-compliance orientation — their willingness to structure the venture for compliance from day one rather than retrofit it after the fact. And partnership disposition — their ability and willingness to work alongside an investor partner for a five-year period, with the visibility and reporting that requires.

The credential we weight most heavily is repeat partnership. Several operators in our current portfolio have built two or three ventures with DC Consulting. That repeat history is, in our view, the strongest signal of operator quality available — stronger than any individual resume, because it reflects a working relationship that has already proven itself.

Yes. The courses are designed to provide clarity and understanding regardless of whether an investor ultimately proceeds with EB-5.

Exit structures vary by venture and are detailed during the Partnership Briefing. The most common structures are operator buyout, continued passive ownership, sale to a third party, or restructuring into a longer-term holding. The right exit depends on the venture's performance, your preferences, and the operator's business plan at year five.

What does not vary is your ability to participate in the decision. Direct Investment Partnership preserves your optionality at exit — unlike pooled investments, where exit mechanics are determined by the structure rather than by you.

Two reasons. First, our smallest portfolio venture currently requires approximately $3M in partnership capital, so the floor reflects the realistic minimum to participate. Second, Direct Investment Partnership only makes sense for investors whose total deployable capital comfortably exceeds the EB-5 minimum, because participating in an operating business as an equity partner requires capacity for operational variance that pooled regional center investment does not.

Investors with capital below $3M are not turned away from DC Consulting. They are better served by regional center investment, which we are happy to help them evaluate independently and honestly. The capital floor is for the partnership pathway, not for the firm.

Yes. Direct Investment Partnership is open to qualified non-U.S. investors from virtually any jurisdiction. EB-5 is, by design, an immigration program for foreign investors. We have worked with investors from across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe.

Specific country-of-origin considerations — particularly for investors from countries with longer EB-5 visa wait times — are addressed during the consultation and Briefing. For some investors, the choice of EB-5 pathway is influenced by visa availability and timing in addition to investment preferences, and we factor that in directly.