FY 2011 EB-5 Statistics

Here are EB-5 statistics reported in the 9/15/2011 EB-5 Stakeholder’s Meeting Presentation.

Current Regional Center Stats as of 9/15/2011

# of Active Regional Centers	173
# of Pending Initial RC Proposals
# of Pending RC Amendments

Stats on Initial Regional Center Proposal Filings

	FY 2010 (Oct 2009 – Sept 2010)	FY 2011 Q1 – Q3 (Oct 2010 – Sept 2011)
# of Initial RC Proposal Filings	110	176
# of Amended RC Proposal Filings	42	73
% of Initial RC Proposals Denied	45%	33%
% of RC Amendments Denied	29%	16%

Statistics I-526 and I-829 Petitions

(Recall that petitions are not necessarily adjudicated in the year in which they are received)

	# of I-526 Received	# of I-526 Approvals	% of I-526 Approved
FY11 Q1 – Q3	2608	999	82%
FY10	1955	1369	89%
FY09	1028	1262	86%
FY08	1257	640	84%
FY07	776	473	76%
FY06	486	336	73%
FY05	332	179	53%

	# of I-829 Received	# of I-829 Approvals	% of I-829 Approved
FY11 Q1 – Q3	1753	426	93%
FY10	768	274	83%
FY09	437	347	86%
FY08	390	159	70%
FY07	194	111	69%
FY06	89	106	64%
FY05	37	184	62%

EB-5 Visa Statistics

	Total EB-5 Visas Issued
FY11 Q1 – Q3	3,706*
FY10	1,885
FY09	4,218
FY08	1,360
FY07	806
FY06	744

* preliminary estimate

Note that USCIS did not this time provide numbers for pending applications, and also didn’t report estimated processing times. They are currently revising the formula for calculating processing times (the previous formula estimated time to an adjudicator’s desk, not time to completion). The next CSC processing times report should include the more realistic estimates.