EB-5 Unreserved Visa Bulletin: investors, every cut-off since 2002

Every EB-5 Unreserved retrogression since 2002

• China (mainland-born): June 2022 (77.3 months), October 2022 (9.0 months), April 2025 (29.7 months)
• India: July 2019 (25.0 months), August 2019 (30.5 months), October 2022 (33.8 months), March 2023 (17.2 months), June 2023 (14.0 months), April 2025 (26.0 months), May 2025 (6.0 months)

Who can use EB-5 Unreserved

EB-5 Unreserved is the employment-based preference for investors outside the set-aside areas, including regional center investments (C5, T5, I5, R5). Its annual limit is 68 % of the 7.1 % EB-5 share (about 6,800). Most cases start with a PERM labor certification and Form I-140; the priority date is normally the PERM filing date, or the I-140 date where no labor certification is needed.

Your column is your country of chargeability, normally the country of birth. A green card in EB-5 Unreserved becomes possible in the month the final action date for your column passes your priority date; until then the case waits at USCIS or the National Visa Center.

What the history says about the next months

A line's past speed is the best simple guide to its future, and the State Department itself plans with it. Over the last five years the EB-5 Unreserved line for most countries cleared –, while China (mainland-born) cleared 2.5 mo/yr. Speeds change when demand changes – a surge of new petitions, a change in the law, unused numbers falling from another category in October – so treat any projection as a range, not a date.