Claim: Wealthy foreigners can obtain visas through a special program, but only a small number "invest in true high-unemployment areas. Almost every other EB-5 project uses gerrymandering to qualify as distressed."
Fact-check: Leahy: Few EB-5 investors focus on rural areas
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Miriam Valverde
Date published: 2017-03-21T00:00:00