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Employment Based

I-526 Immigrant Petition By Alien Entrepreneur

Statistics across the published classifications for this form. See the classification tables for coverage.

USCIS form page Check official case estimates
Quarterly and historical sources

Sources checked Nov 2, 2026.

Latest official release Sep 9, 2026.

2026 Q3

Latest quarterly statistics

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

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Quarter pending 1,818

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

Quarter approvals 22

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 66

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 91

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor (Legacy)0178096099.2 months
Immigrant Petition by Standalone Investor6651185832.3 months
Published quarterly history

Quarterly count graphs

Published quarterly counts: I-526: all published classifications. Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-526: approved and denied case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Case counts, with other dispositions excluded. This chart is not an approval percentage or prediction.

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-526: pending inventory and received case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Pending is quarter-end inventory; received counts activity during the quarter. Bar labels are rounded; the table gives exact values.
I-526 · I-526: all published classifications · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 202591Not publishedNot published1,769
Q1 20269834461,807
Q2 20267326691,806
Q3 20266622911,818

Published counts are reproduced by reporting period. Missing or suppressed values are unavailable, never zero.Graph source and mapping audit.

Separate approval-share percentage chart — approvals divided by approvals plus denials; excludes other completions and does not predict an individual outcome.

Classification detail

Each classification retains its published identity. Expand a group to view its own count series.

Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor (Legacy)View count graphs

Published quarterly counts: Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor (Legacy). Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-526 · legacy: approved and denied case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Case counts, with other dispositions excluded. This chart is not an approval percentage or prediction.

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-526 · legacy: pending inventory and received case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Pending is quarter-end inventory; received counts activity during the quarter. Bar labels are rounded; the table gives exact values.
I-526 · legacy · Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor (Legacy) · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 2025098951,105
Q1 2026029411,071
Q2 2026015571,030
Q3 202601780960

Published counts are reproduced by reporting period. Missing or suppressed values are unavailable, never zero.Graph source and mapping audit.

Separate approval-share percentage chart — approvals divided by approvals plus denials; excludes other completions and does not predict an individual outcome.

Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Standalone InvestorView count graphs

Published quarterly counts: Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Standalone Investor. Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-526 · standalone: approved and denied case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Case counts, with other dispositions excluded. This chart is not an approval percentage or prediction.

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-526 · standalone: pending inventory and received case counts for Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Pending is quarter-end inventory; received counts activity during the quarter. Bar labels are rounded; the table gives exact values.
I-526 · standalone · Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Standalone Investor · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 202591Not publishedNot published664
Q1 20269855736
Q2 2026731112776
Q3 202666511858

Published counts are reproduced by reporting period. Missing or suppressed values are unavailable, never zero.Graph source and mapping audit.

Separate approval-share percentage chart — approvals divided by approvals plus denials; excludes other completions and does not predict an individual outcome.

Historical medians

National median processing time by fiscal year

FY2026 values are partial-year through August 30, 2026. These medians use a different methodology from the monthly averages above. USCIS has not published values for every classification.

Source: USCIS historical national medians, verified Nov 2, 2026.

Standalone investor petition — For use by an investor who wishes to immigrate to the United States

FY2026 median: 28.3 months.

FY2021
Not published
FY2022
Not published
FY2023
Not published
FY2024
Not published
FY2025
Not published
FY2026
28.3 months

Legacy investor petition — For use by an investor who wishes to immigrate to the United States

FY2026 median: 97.4 months.

FY2021
32.5 months
FY2022
44.2 months
FY2023
50 months
FY2024
53.8 months
FY2025
72.9 months
FY2026
97.4 months
Preserved statistical export

Historical counts by classification

These historical observations end in FY2020 or FY2021, depending on the classification. They are separate from the current workbooks above; missing values are not zero.

I-526 · Petitions by EntrepreneursView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Petitions by Entrepreneurs. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is Published classification: Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor (Legacy). Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

I-526 · Petitions by Entrepreneurs: approved and denied case counts for Q1 2013–Q1 2021 (historical only)
Case counts, with other dispositions excluded. This chart is not an approval percentage or prediction.

Pending inventory and new receipts

I-526 · Petitions by Entrepreneurs: pending inventory and received case counts for Q1 2013–Q1 2021 (historical only)
Pending is quarter-end inventory; received counts activity during the quarter. Bar labels are rounded; the table gives exact values.
I-526 · Petitions by Entrepreneurs · Historical classification 0: Petitions by Entrepreneurs · historical export
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q1 20131,9356932636,095
Q2 20131,3508332206,506
Q3 20131,4371,0011426,840
Q4 20131,6241,1723187,131
Q1 20142,1431,4538117,363
Q2 20142,5401,4292578,302
Q3 20143,0051,13312510,375
Q4 20143,2401,1007312,453
Q1 20152,9411,65213313,526
Q2 20152,3091,97827313,663
Q3 20152,4732,86825713,117
Q4 20156,5752,18537717,367
Q1 20166,2771,25737221,988
Q2 20168481,86463720,235
Q3 20161,5131,66043319,406
Q4 20165,5092,85129320,804
Q1 20174,3953,24322823,211
Q2 20171,7312,81619922,152
Q3 20174,4022,38627824,621
Q4 20171,6372,87621724,992
Q1 20182,8622,74629822,475
Q2 20181,6073,30331220,455
Q3 20186174,01241217,126
Q4 20181,3383,51052914,394
Q1 20191,8082,17539813,508
Q2 201958079518013,105
Q3 201961533324613,070
Q4 20191,19135619013,763
Q1 20204,2643837217,468
Q2 20202171419016,633
Q3 20204057634615,955
Q4 20205390423615,063
Q1 2021Not published1,00411913,746

Preserved historical export; charts show the last eight available quarters, while the table retains all observations. Missing and suppressed cells remain unavailable. No line is drawn across the gap to current reports.Graph source and mapping audit.

Archived office coverage

1 mapped centers

IPO · Immigrant Investor Program Office
Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-526

Legacy cached estimates

March 2022 office snapshots

These values are retained only for historical context and are not current processing estimates.

Immigrant Investor Program Office

Published Mar 29, 2022

2 entries
  • China - mainland born - For use by an investor who wishes to immigrate to the United States71.5-60 monthsService request date May 23, 2016
  • All other areas - For use by an investor who wishes to immigrate to the United States58.5-35 monthsService request date June 23, 2017
Data notes

How to read this page

  • Current processing-time estimates in the local snapshot come from cached USCIS API responses published on March 29, 2022. They are included only as legacy context; the primary up-to-date source is the USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data RSS feed and linked quarterly workbooks.
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