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EB-5 Filing Strategy for Chinese Investors in 2026
By EB5 Status Editorial Team·11 min read·Updated 2026-04-15eb-5 china filing strategy 2026
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Strategy, not statistics Our companion article on China EB-5 backlog and priority dates covers the numbers. This article covers what to do about them. China has the longest EB-5 backlog of any country in the world. The unreserved Final Action Date sits at approximately September 2016, which means investors filing today in the unreserved category face a wait of roughly 9 to 10 years for visa availability. That is not a viable immigration plan for most families. But the reserved categories have rewritten the equation. Rural, HUA, and infrastructure set asides are all current for China. A Chinese investor who files under a rural project today faces zero visa availability wait. The contrast could not be sharper: a decade in the unreserved queue, or nothing in the rural queue. This article explains how to build a filing strategy around that reality. Source: U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin, April...#
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