Upper middle class Chinese have been buying "business visas" to immigrate to countries like US and Canada. You either transfer a business with certain threshhold of jobs/revenues or buy into a special bond fund devote to job./business creation. Typically these visas are around one million dollars. On the surface this sounds preferable to letting broke immigrant relatives who could become welfare dependents. Canada recently suspended their program due to a tenfold increase in applications, nearly all Chinese. The US's problem is they let private organizations create the investment funds, of which several have been pure scams.