I have been an EB-5 applicant since 2019. I am tracking processing times from the USCIS website. I found out that they recently separated the regions into China, India, and all other areas. Current waiting times are respectively 81 months, 46 months, and 58.5 months. The lowest number (46 months) is for India. Does that mean they are now faster in processing cases from India? How accurate are these estimations?
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Bernard P Wolfsdorf
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyIPO is allegedly not prioritizing backlogged countries but since both China and India are backlogged, this does not make sense. What I can say is that we are starting to get some 2019 approvals, but with India being backlogged, they may slow down processing cases filed for persons chargeable to India. The new reserved categories mean 32% less visas for unreserved but we do have another large quota for FY2023 from unused family cases. So unless you filed at the end of 2019, near the time when EB-5 sunset, where there is a “hump,” you may see some action relatively soon. China is retrogressed to 2015, so that makes sense, but not sure why “other than China and India” is taking longer than India. That makes no sense under the current system of prioritizing non-backlogged countries.
Lynne Feldman
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyHard to know how accurate but that is all we have as guidance.
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