Are the processing times listed on the USCIS accurate? Many EB-5 websites are listing average processing times as 13-14 months.
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Bernard P Wolfsdorf
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyFor non-Chinese cases the processing time is very much what is listed, that is 30 months to 49.5 months. We are getting some cases approved slightly less than this but approximately 2 years appears to be realistic.
Ying Lu
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyYou should rely on the processing time published on the USCIS official website www.uscis.gov.
Lynne Feldman
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyReasonably accurate on the USCIS website but they are taking cases that have current visas before ones without a current priority date.
Fredrick W Voigtmann
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyThe average processing time for an I-526 as of November 16, 2020 is about three years.
Belma Demirovic Chinchoy
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyNearly all adjudications this year have been closer to 24 months.
Salvatore Picataggio
Find an EB-5 Visa Lawyer: Immigration AttorneyThe website is longer than the cases I am seeing and 13-14 months would be shorter. In my experience cases seem to take closer to 2 months, more or less.
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