Processing Backlog, Meeting Summary, Best Practices
April 18, 2013 7 Comments
The USCIS Processing Time information from the California Service Center shows that as of 4/3/2013, the last I-526 processed had a filing date of 3/16/2012. The Case Status section of the USCIS website illustrates the dire backlog situation for Form I-526.
Wow. 5,887 I-526 petitions pending. I’m so glad that I’m not an adjudicator. The trend line for I-829 looks more promising, though still reflecting a significant backlog.
Thank you to IIUSA for publicizing the processing backlog, as well as the pointing out the Executive Summary of 3/5/2013 CIS Ombudsman EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Stakeholder Meeting. I also recommend IIUSA’s Comments to USCIS on the EB-5 Adjudications Memo, which give a good summary of the hot questions in EB-5.
Thank you also to Catherine Holmes, Victor Shum and Angelique Brunner for an excellent contribution to the effort to define best practices for Regional Centers. See the aricle Protecting the integrity of the EB-5 investment market through the adoption and use of due diligence best practices. So long as you’re on the Hotel Law blog, you may also want to check out their useful posts on SEC compliance, partnering with a Regional Center, and EB-5 investment in an existing business.
EB-5 Updates 
Processing times for I-829 are no better. Filing date of the last case processed for I-829: May 15, 2012!
You can die waiting for USCIS to make decisions. Congress, please do away with the delays or get rid of the EB-5 Program. The funny thing is under the regs USCIS “shall” adjudicate I-829s within 3 months. Of course, USCIS is free to break their own rules.
Hello. I was wondering if you had any more recent data for processing times (not just the most current processing time though)? Or if you know of anywhere I can find such historical data?
You can find investor petition processing times at the California Service Center here: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processTimesDisplayInit.do
And check case status and backlogs for various petition types here: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard.do
USCIS hasn’t updated its posted I-924 processing time since last year (see http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=2785a5f224a2e210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=2785a5f224a2e210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD), but you can get a sense of processing times by looking at the recent RC approval letters, which mention filing dates in the first paragraph. The most recent RC approval letters that I’ve seen (dated 8/27/2013) were for applications filed in the last week of August 2012.
Thank you for your quick response. I am actually looking for historical I-526 processing time data that shows how the actual time changes (i.e. increases) from month to month. Do you have any ideas when I can find such data? Thanks.
Hmm… that I don’t know. Anyone else have a suggestion?
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