Just before the New Year, USCIS released updated processing time reports, with processing dates as of October 31, 2016, for a number of Service Centers. Most importantly for our purposes, the Immigrant Investor (EB-5) Program processing times are included in this report. For our readers' convenience we have included the updated processing time table below:
| Average Processing Times for Immigrant Investor Program Office as of: October 31, 2016 | |||
| Form | Title | Classification or Basis for Filing: | Processing Cases As Of Date: |
| I-526 | Immigrant Petition By Alien Entrepreneur | For use by an entrepreneur who wishes to immigrate to the United States | July 12, 2015 |
| I-829 | Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions | Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors) | October 10, 2014 |
| I-924 | Application For Regional Center Under the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program | Application For Regional Center Under the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program | September 6, 2015 |
Critically, on January 5, USCIS also announced that it will no longer post processing times using weeks or months. In the past, USCIS posted processing times using two different formats:
- For cases that were within USCIS production goals, the processing times were listed in weeks or months; and
- For cases that were outside USCIS goals, processing times were listed with a specific date.
Now, USCIS will post all processing times using a specific date format rather than in weeks or months.
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