EB-5 Visa Availability Updates and Prediction

Friday, May 24, 2019

On May 6, 2019, Chief of the Visa Controls Office at the US Department of State, Charlie Oppenheim, appeared at IIUSA EB-5 Advocacy Conference in Washington DC as keynote presenter. During his presentation, Mr. Oppenheim shared some of the firsthand data on EB-5 visa in FY2019, also provided predictions on the EB-5 final action date movements. 【Here a link to Charlie Oppenheim’s presentation slides: https://iiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IIUSA-2019-EB5-Advocacy-Conference-Visa-Update-with-Charles-Oppenheim-1.pdf 】

Based on the current visa usage, Mr. Oppenheim confirmed that India will have its own final action date by June or early July of 2019. Furthermore, China will move to and remain on October 1, 2014, as well as Vietnam will move to and remain October 1, 2016; Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan will remain current for the remainder of FY2019.