U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 18th, 2023 it would update its visa availability approach for managing the inventory of Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor, to promote greater efficiency and reduce backlogs.
USCIS indicated the updated approach will group petitions with filing dates on or before Nov. 30, 2019, by new commercial enterprise within the queue of petitions where the project has been reviewed and there is a visa available or a visa will soon be available. By assigning multiple petitions associated with the same new commercial enterprise to the same adjudicator(s) it will allow adjudicators to process them more efficiently.
For more information, please see the Update to Visa Availability Approach for Form I-526 page on the EB-5 Resources page.