Processing Times and Meeting Update
April 18, 2011 2 Comments
According to the latest report of Processing Time Information for the California Service Center (4/18), I-526 petition processing is back on track at 5 months.
In other good news, the IIUSA EB-5 conference in Washington D.C. on May 10 has just dramatically reduced the registration fee plus added a special session in which copies of the newly released EB-5 Training Materials from USCIS will be distributed to all attendees and discussed by an expert panel including representatives from USCIS. This is looking like a must-attend event, but hurry if you want to take advantage of the the hotel group rate.
Also, note another opportunity to hear from man-of-the-hour H. Ronald Klasko, who made the FOIA request that brought us the EB-5 training materials and is speaking at the IIUSA EB-5 Conference in Washington DC on May 10, the EB-5 Webinar Series on July 6, and now the newly-announced EB-5 for Experts Phone Session on securities law on April 28.
EB-5 Updates 
The current processing times for I-526 is 5 months as of June 2011. In reality, would it take shorter than 5 months or longer than 5 months? My petition has been pending for 5.5 months now.
The reality in the past few months has been 6-7 month processing time, from what I hear. You can check the status of your particular case by entering your case number at: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard.do