Based on published USCIS data

Explore USCIS filing demand, visa-availability pressure, adjustment-stage queues, and EAD/AP context. This V1 uses published USCIS counts only, not modeled wait-time predictions.

EB-5 Demand Map

Category Crowding Timeline

FY2025 receipts

Filing volume over time by form-reported EB-5 category. Choose a bar to focus the country heatmap.

Rural AreaHigh Unemployment AreaRural + High UnemploymentInfrastructureUnreservedUnknown

September FY2025

532 receipts in the current filter context.

Rural Area 259High Unemployment Area 181Rural + High Unemployment 24Infrastructure 0Unreserved 3Unknown 65

I-526E receipts

6,307

FY2025, all countries

Rural

3,589

Reserved 20% category

HUA

2,430

Reserved 10% category

Infrastructure

0

Reserved 2% category

Unreserved

42

Reported unreserved receipts

Unknown

138

USCIS form-reported category

I-526E visible receipts

6,307

FY2025

Timeline context

All countries

All categories

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Country x Category Heatmap

FY2025 visible window

Cell color is each category's share of that country's filing receipts in the selected period.

Rural AreaHigh Unemployment AreaRural + High UnemploymentInfrastructureUnreservedUnknownChina3,017India1,812Rest of the World796South Korea279Vietnam202Taiwan201

Pending I-485 EB-5 Inventory

Pending employment-based preference inventory, January 2, 2026

These are lower-bound pending adjustment counts by country and EB-5 category. USCIS redacted cells are preserved and not converted into exact counts.

China

High Unemployment

At least 3,561

3 redacted cells in source

China

Unreserved

At least 3,013

7 redacted cells in source

China

Rural

At least 3,003

6 redacted cells in source

India

Rural

At least 2,607

15 redacted cells in source

India

High Unemployment

At least 2,205

3 redacted cells in source

Rest of the World

High Unemployment

At least 1,683

4 redacted cells in source

Rest of the World

Unreserved

At least 570

84 redacted cells in source

India

Unreserved

At least 496

38 redacted cells in source

Rest of the World

Rural

At least 436

17 redacted cells in source

Mexico

Unreserved

At least 57

25 redacted cells in source

Mexico

High Unemployment

At least 14

21 redacted cells in source

Rest of the World

Infrastructure

At least 0

3 redacted cells in source

India

Infrastructure

At least 0

4 redacted cells in source

Mexico

Rural

At least 0

14 redacted cells in source

Philippines

High Unemployment

At least 0

13 redacted cells in source

Philippines

Rural

At least 0

1 redacted cells in source

Set-aside source notes

Latest available receipt snapshot is canonical for each fiscal year.

USCIS D/H/N/A values are preserved as redacted or withheld. Aggregations with redacted cells are displayed as lower bounds.

Source workbooks are published through the USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data reports.

Pending employment-based preference inventory

eb_inventory_january_2026.xlsx

January 2, 2026

FY2022-FY2024

i526_i526E_cob_pref_r_fy22_fy23_fy24.xlsx

Canonical FY2022, FY2023, FY2024

FY2025 Q3 snapshot

i526_i526E_r_cob_pref_fy2025_q3.xlsx

Revision snapshot; not used in canonical chart counts.

FY2025 Q4

i526_i526E_r_cob_pref_fy2025_q4_v1.xlsx

Canonical FY2025