October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Employment Based
I-829 Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions
Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors)
Quarterly and historical sources
Dataset updated Jul 25, 2026.
Latest official release Not published.
FY2026 Q1
Latest all-forms quarter
All listed classifications
All listed classifications
All listed classifications
| Classification | Received | Approved | Denied | Pending | Processing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status | 1,013 | 941 | 64 | 6,824 | 8.9 months |
Historical medians
National median processing time by fiscal year
FY2026 values are partial-year through May 31, 2026. These medians use a different methodology from the monthly averages above.
Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors)
Latest published median: 31.2 months.
Removal of conditions on lawful permanent resident status (immigrant investors)
Latest published median: 10.6 months.
Legacy quarterly series
Older inventory movement
This series comes from the pulled legacy TSV export and is not presented as current.
| Quarter | Received | Approved | Denied | Pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2019 | 921 | 270 | 15 | 8,821 |
| Q3 2019 | 1,171 | 574 | 39 | 9,295 |
| Q4 2019 | 867 | 349 | 12 | 9,799 |
| Q1 2020 | 1,013 | 436 | 0 | 10,373 |
| Q2 2020 | 604 | 730 | 57 | 10,309 |
| Q3 2020 | 739 | 725 | 23 | 10,332 |
| Q4 2020 | 740 | 732 | 62 | 10,304 |
| Q1 2021 | 205 | 641 | 41 | 9,894 |
Service-center coverage
1 mapped centers
Official USCIS reports
Recent source documents for I-829
No form-specific report is currently indexed from the USCIS RSS feed.
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
1 entries
Immigrant Investor Program Office
Published Mar 29, 2022
- Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors)68-44 monthsService request date September 04, 2016
Data notes
How to read this page
- Historical national median processing times are refreshed from the official USCIS rendered tables. FY2026 is partial-year through May 31, 2026.
- 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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