USCIS has released the current pending I-526 petitions from 2012 to Oct, 2018.
What is Form I-526?
Filing I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur is the first step for EB-5 investors, who have invested or are actively in the process of investing the required amount of capital ($1 million or, if the qualifying investment is within a TEA, $500,000) and provide evidence of creating atleast 10 jobs.
Pending petitions
- Petitions pending doubled for South Korea
- USCIS has dramatically cut the pending petitions for chinese which declined by more than half (65%) compared to previous year 2017,
- USCIS lowered the pending applications Vietnam and Brazil
- Total pending petitions for all countries: 14,293
| Year | Vietnam | Brazil | South Korea | China | Taiwan | India |
| 2018 | 480 | 115 | 293 | 1236 | 165 | 852 |
| 2017 | 516 | 121 | 135 | 3621 | 164 | 627 |
| 2016 | 177 | 39 | 34 | 2444 | 49 | 136 |
| 2015 | 22 | 31 | 6 | 710 | 7 | 14 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 109 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012-2013 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 1196 | 307 | 469 | 8180 | 385 | 1633 |
