The State department has provided 2019 updates on potential waiting times for interviews and I-526 petitions is filed today, in may 2019.
Charles Oppenheim Chief, Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division presented the following updates during the EB-5 advocacy conference.
Although the EB-5 is limited to 10,000 visas annually, the annual Per Country Limit for 2019 approximately 705. The waiting times for chinese increased from 16.6 years (from 15 years).
That is if a chinese apply for EB-5 today, they would get EB-5 visa after 16.5 years by 2036, Indians 8.5 years by 2028 and Vietnamese by 2027.
- China – 16.5 years
- Vietnam – 7.6 years
- India – 8.4 years
- South Korea – 2.4 years
- Taiwan – 2 years
- Brazil – 1.6 years
Brazil has the lowest wait time of one and half years.
These are the wait times for interview scheduling to submit documents (average number of days)
- China – 239 days (7.9 months)
- Brazil – 113 days (3.7 months)
- India – 112 days (3.7 months)
- South Korea – 97 days (3.2 months)
- Taiwan – 114 days (3.7 months)
- Vietnam – 112 days (3.7 months)
- Rest of the world – 133 days (4.4 months)
