And it’s not a pretty picture.  Processing times were published on October 31, 2017.I-526 petitions are taking almost a bit less than two years to adjudicate.I-829 petitions are taking two years and five months to adjudicate.New regional center applications are taking exactly two years to process.A former USCIS ombudsman once told me that it doesn’t…

When H.R. 601 was signed into law, a provision in the bill reauthorized the regional center aspect of the EB-5 Program to Dec. 8.  The new law, which contained an appropriation for Hurricane Harvey relief for the east coast of Texas, including Houston, also contained a provision to keep the government running.  Called a continuing…

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Since I became involved in the EB-5 Program in 2006, the regional center part of the program has been extended five or six times.  This makes the regional center program the oldest pilot program in federal government, despite the fact that USCIS removed the word “pilot” from the name of the program. That agency cannot…

Dated March 31, 2017, USCIS released processing times for EB-5 visa related petitions today (May 23). The news is bleak and reflects slower processing even as the agency hires new employees and trains them. The Immigrant Investor Program Office has provided no comment on the slow pace of EB-5 petition processing. The report is below:I-526…

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