The USCIS has announced the following statistics concerning the EB-5 visa for investors. The EB-5 visa is a permanent investor visa that allows an applicant and his or her immediate family to gain permanent residency through the investment of between $500,000 and $1 million. This investor visa offers two unique processes to gain the status – either through an individual EB-5 visa or a regional center EB-5 visa.
A vast majority (over 90%) of applicants seek to obtain permanent residency through a regional center.
Current Regional Center Stats as of 6/30/2011
| # of Active Regional Centers | 147 |
| # of Pending Initial RC Proposals | 83 |
| # of Pending RC Amendments | 9 |
Stats on Initial Regional Center Proposal Filings
| FY 2010(Oct 2009 – Sept 2010) | FY 2011 Q1 & Q2(Oct 2010 – Mar 2011) | |
| # of Initial RC Proposal Filings | 110 | 146 |
| # of Amended RC Proposal Filings | 42 | 55 |
| % of Initial RC Proposals Denied | 45% | 31% |
| % of RC Amendments Denied | 29% | 22% |
Statistics I-526 and I-829 Petitions
| # of I-526 Received | # of I-526 Approvals | % of I-526 Approved | |
| FY11 Q1 & Q2 | 1601 | 407 | 81% |
| FY10 | 1955 | 1369 | 89% |
| FY09 | 1028 | 1262 | 86% |
| FY08 | 1257 | 640 | 84% |
| FY07 | 776 | 473 | 76% |
| FY06 | 486 | 336 | 73% |
| FY05 | 332 | 179 | 53% |
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# of I-829 Received | # of I-829 Approvals | % of I-829 Approved |
| FY11 Q1 & Q2 | 1150 | 166 | 86% |
| FY10 | 768 | 274 | 83% |
| FY09 | 437 | 347 | 86% |
| FY08 | 390 | 159 | 70% |
| FY07 | 194 | 111 | 69% |
| FY06 | 89 | 106 | 64% |
| FY05 | 37 | 184 | 62% |
EB-5 Visa Statistics
| Total EB-5 Visas Issued | |
| FY11 Q1 & Q2 | 2,129* |
| FY10 | 1,885 |
| FY09 | 4,218 |
| FY08 | 1,360 |
| FY07 | 806 |
| FY06 | 744 |