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Targeted Employment Areas

Qualifying Targeted Employment Areas for Wyoming

 

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Beginning November 21, 2019, Research & Planning will no longer will be responsible for determining targeted employment areas (TEAs) for EB-5 Visas. Targeted employment areas will become the responsibility of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). For more information, please see https://www.uscis.gov/.

Updated May 23, 2019.

Wyoming Governor Matthew Mead designated the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Research and Planning, as the agency to certify Targeted Employment Areas pursuant to the provision of the Immigration Act of 1990 and the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 8, Part 204.6.

To qualify as a Targeted Employment Area, a geographic area must either be:

1. A rural area — this is defined as any county not in a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Cities with populations over 20,000 in non MSA counties are also excluded. The following counties qualify in their entireties by this definition. No cities within these counties have populations over 20,000.

Qualifying Targeted Employment Areas for Wyoming, May 23, 2019.
Big Horn Niobrara
Carbon Park
Converse Platte
Crook Sheridan
Fremont Sublette
Goshen Teton
Hot Springs Uinta
Johnson Washakie
Lincoln Weston

Albany, Campbell, and Sweetwater Counties contain cities with a population over 20,000. These counties qualify as rural area outside of the city limits of Laramie, Gillette, and Rock Springs.

2. A high unemployment area — this is defined as a non-rural area that has an unemployment rate 150 percent higher than the national average. Currently, the qualifying rate is 6.2%, using the Areas of Substantial Unemployment reference period July 2017 – June 2018 the national average unemployment rate was 4.1%. The following census tracts qualify using this definition:

County County FIPS Tract FIPS Unemployment Rate
Albany 001 963000 7.1
Campbell 005 000400 7.9
Campbell 005 000700 7.3
Campbell 005 000600 7.0
Laramie 021 001502 9.8
Laramie 021 000200 7.4
Laramie 021 000700 7.3
Natrona 025 000400 9.2
Natrona 025 001200 9.1
Natrona 025 000502 8.6
Natrona 025 001401 6.9
Sweetwater 037 970500 10.0
Sweetwater 037 971000 9.6
Sweetwater 037 970602 6.7

Other areas can be calculated upon request.

Prepared by: CC, Research & Planning.