Q2 2026 USCIS Processing Time Report
The EB-5 regional center petition, the I-526E, was posted by USCIS at 20.5 to 34 months in its February 18, 2026 processing times release, the first of fiscal Q2 2026, and the case cutoff sat at petitions filed on or before May 14, 2023. Read that twice. As of early 2026 USCIS was working its published I-526E queue down to filings from the spring of 2023. If you filed your regional center petition after May 2023, the official line is that USCIS has not yet reached the front edge of where your case sits. This is our readout of the current EB-5 processing picture: what the latest USCIS release shows, what the most recent confirmed adjudication counts imply about the backlog, and, because honesty is the point, which numbers USCIS has not published yet. ## The three numbers from the Q2 2026 release that matter - **I-526E: 20.5 to 34...
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