The EB-5 is the most wanted, most popular, highly sought after immigrant investor program in the world. EB-5 was created in the 1990’s by Congress requires $500,000 investment and investors are supposed to create atleast 10 jobs.
This scheme is still the oldest in the world with an annual quota of 10,000 visas.
Since its creation in 1990’s, EB-5 is currently in 29 years of its operation. USCIS has proposed for an overhaul of the scheme soon with doubling the investment levels.
According to DHS report on EB-5, since its creation from 1990 to 2017
- 73,495 EB-5 visa admissions
- 1.1 million jobs created (assuming 16 jobs created per eb-5 investor according to department of commerce evaluation
- USD 36.7 billion investments received, assuming half a million invested in each eb-5 project
I-526 Petitions
According to USCIS report, the number of approved petitions hit a record in 2018, with USCIS greatly reducing its backlog.
- 58,623 I-526 petitions approved by end of 2018
- 14,394 I-526 pending by the end of 2018
EB-5 Investments
The breakdown of EB-5 investments
- 38% Real estate mixed
- 22% Hotel/Resort
- 7% Residential real estate
- 7% Commercial real estate
- 4% Transport/storage
- 4% Restaurants
- 3% Medical facilities
- 2% Education & schools
- 2% Energy
- 1% Retirement homes
EB-5 investment in US states
Top Countries
The State department has published EB-5 total statistics by country report for the FY 2018.
The EB-5 visas issued for top 5 countries
- China – 4,642
- Vietnam – 693
- India – 585
- South Korea – 510
- Taiwan – 425
