Mixed In the United States As a Local Tyrant

  Chapter 5 Generous

   If he intends to develop in the United States, there are many topics to talk to Anthony. He is well-informed and familiar with the investment environment in various parts of the United States. He speaks clearly and logically, and An Feng has obtained a lot of information from him. In general, he prefers the west to the dense east.

   About an hour later, a guy who looked somewhat similar to Anthony, but much younger came. He was wearing a well-fitting suit and looked confident. He went up to shake hands with An Feng first, and then said, "Roger Blueline, nice to meet you, An from China."

  An Feng exchanged some polite words with him, and then got to the point. During the conversation, I learned that Roger is Anthony's younger brother, who works at American Express, and is only one year older than An Feng. Looking at the business card he handed over, he was just an ordinary employee. He didn't expect that when he took An Feng to do business, he drove a white Maserati GT sports car.

An Feng sat in the co-pilot and looked around curiously. Roger saw the doubt in his eyes and said with a smile: "I know you are curious about how an ordinary employee would drive this kind of car. Let me tell you the truth. I'm not working for the bank, I'm working for my family."

   "I understand." An Feng thought to himself that it was the second generation and the third generation.

   Sitting in Roger's sporty sports car, he came to the bank area to open a checking account and a credit card for him, and deposited all the money in it. Roger introduced: "In the United States and even in the world, American Express has its own offices, and we can provide the most unique services, such as private safes, personal assistants, financial advisors, and membership in certain high-end clubs. These only require a phone call."

  An Feng felt that he was bragging, so he asked, "Is there any immigration business for me?"

  Roger shook his head, then smiled: "I found that I like you a little bit."

   "I don't like men." An Feng said solemnly.

   "Hahaha! You are so funny!" Roger laughed, and An Feng followed suit. Forget it, he still doesn't understand American humor.

   "Of course, the bank does not have these businesses for the time being, but my family is involved in brokerage business in various industries, and quickly handling immigration for you is also among them."

  The service industry in the United States is extremely developed, especially in the field of serving the rich. It's no wonder that the United States, as the only superpower, has a lot of rich people, and if there is demand, there will be supply. What's more, An Feng has stored all the valuable diamonds in the bank safe, which is really a potential cash cow.

  The intermediary who applied for his green card took him to fill out the form, went to the immigration office, got back the materials, and waited for his real investment certificate to be issued. As long as you have money, the speed of the Americans is indeed nothing to say. Immigrants were running errands, and An Feng followed real estate agents around the world.

At first, he wanted to be a farmer, owning a large piece of land, and riding a steed in the sunset, but he ran in Ohio, Kansas, and Texas and found that there is a lot of land, but there is only one family per kilometer , It's too lonely, he crossed this aspect, and chose the right amount of crowd.

   In this way, pastures, forest farms and the like are all excluded. They can be used for vacation, but staying for a long time will make people crazy. After running around for a few days, he decided to invest in a vineyard in California. Vineyards in California account for 90% of the U.S. grape industry, and the land price is also rising year by year, which has investment value.

   Then there is the issue of site selection. Napa Valley, Sonoma and other places are the most famous, and the land is also the most expensive. Most of them already have owners, and the rest are leftovers. An Feng vetoed it. Turning to San Luis Obispo County in central California, there are two properties.

  One of them had an asking price of three million yuan, an area of ​​more than 60 acres, and a house of 1,000 square meters. The environment was not too good, so An Feng went to see the second place. This land is obviously much larger, more than 360 acres of flat land, the house is located on the top of the hill, more than 30 meters above the flat land, with a vast view.

  On the top of the mountain stands a mansion of more than 2,000 square meters, equipped with a 5,000-square-meter garden front yard, and a nearly 200-square-meter borderless luxury swimming pool in the backyard. One side of the pool is designed as a straight cliff with a drop of 15 meters. When you are bored, you can lie on the edge of the cliff and look at the mountains and vineyards.

  An Feng fell in love with this place at first sight. Although it cost 11 million US dollars, he still proudly paid it in one lump sum, and took it along with the original team working on the vineyard. After drafting the agreement, An Feng made a phone call, and the rest was handed over to the senior lawyer provided by American Express, with an advance payment of 3,000 US dollars and an hourly asking price of 800. What a blood-sucking price, no wonder so many people in the United States are lawyers.

He made an appointment to meet in Paso Robles, which is a 20-minute drive away from the vineyard. The lawyers of both sides read the clauses in the contract very carefully, and made several phone calls during the period, which took more than two hours. After the lawyers were satisfied, An Feng signed the contract.

   After filling out a check, the land with an area of ​​1.45 million square meters belongs to him. However, his schedule was too tight, and he didn't have time to inspect his territory, so he followed the agency to the immigration office non-stop. The proof materials are complete, and after the review is completed, his green card will be issued to him, a card similar to a domestic ID card, with his profile picture, name and other information on it.

I also listened to some precautions from the intermediary, especially the SSN, which is equivalent to a domestic ID number, but more important, such as credit records, bank accounts, buying a house, car, insurance, guns, guns, and missiles... used. He also found an important point, until he walked out of the immigration office, he still held a Chinese passport.

The agent patiently explained his doubts: "Mr. An, the green card is actually just a permanent residence in the United States, and you are still a Chinese citizen. If you want to become a U.S. citizen, you can apply for naturalization (naturalization) after holding the green card for five years, or Naturalization after three years of marriage to a U.S. citizen."

   "Oh, I understand." An Feng blushed a lot. Up to now, he thought that after the investment immigration is over, it is equivalent to becoming an American citizen.

   After saying goodbye to his agent, he is currently located in San Luis Obisburg, San Luis Obispo County, **** Luo, fortunately it has an abbreviation: SLO.

   Seeing that it was getting late, An Feng stayed in a local hotel for one night. Early the next morning, he took the business card given by his agent and called the local car dealer.

   There is a disadvantage in the United States. It is difficult to go out without a car. He has to buy a car. But there are not many local dealers in SLO, and his sports car dream can only be temporarily stranded. After making an appointment, he found a local car dealership that deals in pickups and SUVs and looked at the models they were selling.

At first glance, there were pickup trucks in the past, Ford’s F series, Chevrolet’s Silverado, etc. He looked at them one by one. After learning that he ran a vineyard, the salesperson recommended: “Sir, most of the work in the vineyard is based on pickup trucks. You can see Look at these models, F-150, F-250, and popular colors are available!"

  Influenced by China, An Feng chose a black domineering F-150 and asked for a test drive. Accompanied by the salesman, I drove the car around and even came to test the road. It felt good. With a displacement of 6.2 liters and more than 400 horsepower, it is enough to deal with dirt roads.

The last surprise is the price. This top-of-the-line F-150 sells for more than 50,000 U.S. dollars, plus taxes, insurance and other expenses are only more than 60,000 points, which is equivalent to less than 400,000 RMB. In the early 100,000s. Driving it, I was a little excited to take advantage of it.

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  Remarks: For the convenience of narration, the concept of temporary green card is not mentioned in the article, and the regularization period is not written, so the protagonist speeds up to get it.

  (end of this chapter)