The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that processing times for Form I-526 - the EB-5 application form - has fallen to a five year low of just 14 months on average. Conventional belief holds that average processing times are much longer because of the confusion caused by the processing time range published on the USCIS website. That range currently lists this time range as between 33.5 months and 60 months. - What the Current Processing Times ...
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We are delighted to have received yet another E-2 Treaty Investor Visa approval today. This time it's for a client who already has an approved EB-5 application, but is facing a wait before an EB-5 visa becomes available. In fact, she is part of a growing trend of people looking to the E-2 visa as a means of moving to the United States faster than EB-5 allows. The EB-5 Visa is proving fantastically popular in some quarters - especially China ...
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The number of EB-5 visas available to investors is set to almost double in the coming year - a peculiar side-effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. EB-5 is an employment-based US immigrant visa. The number of employment-based immigrant visas available each year is limited to 140,000. However, this is topped up if there are any unused family-based visas from the previous year. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented number of unused family-based visas. The closure of US embassies and ...
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The Department of State has issued the November visa bulletin showing little movement for Chinese- and Vietnamese- born EB-5 investor visa applicants continuing to face delays. All other countries remain "current" for EB-5, meaning there is no waiting list for a Green Card. India has been "current" since July, but retrogression delays may return because demand for EB-5 has been consistently high in recent years. Indians planning an EB-5 petition should consider acting while the country is current. The US ...
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