How can we change the principal petitioner of our EB-5 case?

You can make your daughter the principal applicant, but chances are you&#39ll have to file a new I-526 petition and you&#39ll lose your current priority date. She can always petition for you later on through family-based immigration if you don&#39t mind delaying your entry into the U.S., though.

You cannot change the principal EB-5 investor in a pending I-526 petition. You may consider filing a new petition in your daughter&#39s name as the principal EB-5 investor.

I do not know if this is possible.

Immigration-wise, you&#39d need a new I-526 petition. Investment-wise, you would need to remove the money and put it in your daughter&#39s name before she makes the investment.

No, you cannot. You may withdraw your application and file a new application under your daughter&#39s name.

You cannot make your daughter the principal petitioner on your EB-5 investment petition on Form I-526 that your wife has already filed. While there are proposals to make such a change possible, as of now, your daughter would have to file a new petition and create a new priority date. It may be possible for you to work out an arrangement with the project developer to transfer your investment to your daughter&#39s account, but again, that would acquire a new petition and a new priority date.

There is no option to "switch or replace" the principal in an EB-5 petition. You would have to withdraw the pending petition and withdraw your investment if you need that capital to fund your daughter&#39s investment, and then have your daughter file as the EB-5 investor (or, if you do not need the money from your investment for your daughter to use for her EB-5 processing, you can leave your petition/investment as is, and have her file separately).

It is not possible to change the principal applicant. You would have to withdraw the old peri and re-file the I-526 petition anew.

Withdraw, gift the money or interest, and re-file with her as the principal.

Unfortunately, USCIS does not allow the principal applicant to be changed on I-526 petitions. You would need to withdraw the case and re-file with your daughter as the principal applicant.