Processing Data

This page provides a home for the latest EB-5 form processing updates otherwise discussed in blog posts. I include charts summarizing the official performance data from quarterly reports on the USCIS Immigration & Citizenship Data page, and a few supplementary charts with more timely and granular USCIS data leaked unofficially.

Dates

• Page last updated January 5, 2023
• Officially-reported USCIS data as of FY2022 Q4 (July to September 2022 from the All Forms report and I-485 report)
• Inside intel on unofficially-obtained USCIS data through December 31, 2022

Data table of most recent Official USCIS Report

July 1, 2022 – September 30, 2022
Form	Description	Received	Approved	Denied	Total Completed	Pending  at period end	Processing Time (months)
I-526 and I-526E	Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor	188	259	276	535	13,062	45.3
I-829	Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status	69	418	41	459	11,150	47.8
I-956	Application for Regional  Center Designation	not reported
I-956F	Application for Approval of Investment in a Commercial Enterprise	not reported
I-956G	Regional Center Annual Statement	not reported

FY2022 total (October 2021 to September 2022)
Form	Description	Received	Approved	Denied	Total Completed	Pending at period end
I-526	Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor	829	590	825	1,415	13,062
I-829	Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status	1,270	1,453	168	1,621	11,150

I-526 Processing Highlights

• Published Report: As of September 30, 2022, IPO had 13,062 pending I-526 and had completed 535 I-526 adjudications over the previous quarter (average 178 decisions/month). If this completion rate continues, it will take over 73 months to process currently-pending I-526. Performance in July-September 2022 was an improvement over the previous three months but still less than half the pre-Pandemic I-526 completion rate, and nine times lower than performance in 2018. The median processing times for I-526 decisions in July-September 2022 was 45 months.
• Inside Intel: In December 2022, IPO approved/denied 97 I-526, with a wide range of filing dates. The largest cluster of decisions (28 decisions, 38% of the total) were on I-526 filed in the month of December 2018. Other decisions ranged in age from approval of an I-526 filed in September 2015 to an approval of an I-526 filed in July 2022.

I-829 Processing Highlights

• Published Report: As of September 30, 2022, IPO had 11,150 pending I-829 and had completed 459 I-829 adjudications over the previous quarter (average 153 decisions/month). If this completion rate continues, it will take over 72 months to process currently-pending I-829. Performance in July-September 2022 was slightly higher than the previous quarter and about half the pre-Pandemic I-829 completion rate. The median processing times for I-829 decisions in July-September 2022 was 47.8 months.
• Inside Intel: In December 2022, IPO approved/denied 78 I-829, quite evenly spread over a wide range of filing dates. Almost every filing month from June 2017 to June 2020 had 4-9 I-829 selected for a decision in December 2022. The oldest decision was an on I-829 filed in June 2015, while the newest was on an I-829 filed in January 2021.

Charts