EB-5 Regional Center Petition (I-526E) Queue and USCIS Net Backlog
Open petition inventory compared with USCIS operational backlog.
Pending Net backlog
Official USCIS EB-5 Visa filing data
Track filing demand, visa pressure, and USCIS queue signals using published USCIS and State Department data.
EB-5 Investor Petition (I-526) Demand, Backlog and Completions
Worldwide USCIS petition-stage metrics by source-supported petition type.
EB-5 Regional Center Petition (I-526E) New Filings vs Completed Decisions
Quarterly receipts compared with USCIS completions; this is not visa availability.
Receipts Completions
Latest net inflow: +727 petitions in FY26 Q1
Worldwide USCIS petition-stage metricsOfficial USCIS all-forms performance file, FY2026 Q1Official net backlog and frontlog file, FY2026 Q1
Country category mix
FY2026 visible windowCompare form-reported EB-5 categories by country. Share makes every country total 100%; Volume scales each row by visible receipt count.
Rural AreaHigh Unemployment AreaRural + High UnemploymentInfrastructure
India
633 visible receipts
Total
633
China
612 visible receipts
Total
612
Rest of the World
204 visible receipts
Total
204
Taiwan
73 visible receipts
Total
73
Vietnam
56 visible receipts
Total
56
South Korea
44 visible receipts
Total
44
EB-5 petition metrics come from USCIS petition-stage data for EB-5 Regional Center Petition (I-526E) and EB-5 Direct Petition (I-526). Pending is not the same as USCIS net backlog.
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.
Official USCIS all-forms performance file, FY2026 Q1
Source file: quarterly_all_forms_fy2026_q1_v1.xlsx
FY2026 Q1
Official net backlog and frontlog file, FY2026 Q1
Source file: net_backlog_frontlog_fy2026_q1_v1.xlsx
FY2026 Q1
Official I-526/I-526E receipt file, FY2022-FY2024
Source file: i526_i526E_cob_pref_r_fy22_fy23_fy24.xlsx
Canonical FY2022, FY2023, FY2024
Official I-526/I-526E receipt file, FY2025 Q3
Source file: i526_i526E_r_cob_pref_fy2025_q3.xlsx
Revision snapshot; not used in canonical chart counts.
Official I-526/I-526E receipt file, FY2025 Q4
Source file: i526_i526E_r_cob_pref_fy2025_q4_v1.xlsx
Canonical FY2025
Official I-526/I-526E receipt file, FY2026 Q1
Source file: i526_i526E_r_cob_pref_fy2026_q1_v1.xlsx
Canonical FY2026