The Latest EB-5 Stats

EB-5 statistics presented at the 3/17/2011 EB-5 Stakeholder’s Meeting at the USCIS California Service Center.

Current Regional Center Stats as of 3/17/2011

# of Active Regional Centers	125
# of Pending Initial RC Proposals	156
# of Pending RC Amendments	34

Stats  on Initial Regional Center Proposal Filings

	FY 2010 (Oct 2009 – Sept 2010)	FY 2011 Q1 (Oct – Dec 2010)
# of Initial RC Proposal Filings	110	116
# of Amended RC Proposal Filings	42	24
% of Initial RC Proposals Denied	45%	24%
% of RC Amendments Denied	29%	22%

Statistics I-526 and I-829 Petitions
(Recall that petitions are not necessarily adjudicated in the year in which they are received!)

	# of I-526 Received	# of I-526 Approvals	% of I-526 Approved
FY11 Q1	701	190	77%
FY10	1955	1369	89%
FY09	1028	1262	86%
FY08	1257	640	84%
FY07	776	473	76%
FY06	486	336	73%
FY05	332	179	53%

	# of I-829 Received	# of I-829 Approvals	% of I-829 Approved
FY11 Q1	531	39	75%
FY10	768	274	83%
FY09	437	347	86%
FY08	390	159	70%
FY07	194	111	69%
FY06	89	106	64%
FY05	37	184	62%

USCIS noted that it is still working on a system to distinguish RC from stand-alone filings and that an estimated 90-95%  of I-526 petitions are currently associated with Regional Centers.
EB-5 Visa Statistics

	Total EB-5 Visas Issued
FY11 Q1	1,421
FY10	1,885
FY09	4,218
FY08	1,360
FY07	806
FY06	744

The presentation notes: “USCIS interprets the set aside of visas to ensure that a minimum of 3,000 visas are available for regional center based applicants. We do not see the set aside as limiting the number of visas that can be granted to regional center based applicants, to the extent that such applicants can be allocated up to 10,000 visas, along with the non-regional center based applicants.”