Employment Based

I-829 Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions

Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors)

Quarterly and historical sources

Sources checked Nov 2, 2026.

Latest official release Not published.

2026 Q3

Latest quarterly statistics

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

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Quarter pending 8,244

April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026

Quarter approvals 767

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 1,944

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 78

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status1,944767788,24412.8 months
Published quarterly history

Quarterly count graphs

Published quarterly counts: I-829: all published classifications. Q4 2025–Q3 2026.

Approved and denied counts

I-829: 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-829: 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-829 · I-829: all published classifications · official quarterly reports
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q4 20251,1141,3161436,835
Q1 20261,013941646,824
Q2 20261,136742647,171
Q3 20261,944767788,244

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.

Removal of conditions on lawful permanent resident status (immigrant investors)

FY2026 median: 11.1 months.

FY2021
34.5 months
FY2022
45.5 months
FY2023
49.4 months
FY2024
41 months
FY2025
11.5 months
FY2026
11.1 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-829 · Remove Conditions on EntrepreneurView historical counts

Historical-only series: Historical classification 0: Remove Conditions on Entrepreneur. Q1 2013–Q1 2021.

Current published scope is I-829: all published classifications. Historical and current periods are shown separately, without interpolation.

Approved and denied counts

I-829 · Remove Conditions on Entrepreneur: 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-829 · Remove Conditions on Entrepreneur: 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-829 · Remove Conditions on Entrepreneur · Historical classification 0: Remove Conditions on Entrepreneur · historical export
QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q1 201320346151,155
Q2 2013224421Not published949
Q3 2013438200111,178
Q4 2013352177Not published1,345
Q1 2014370159431,508
Q2 2014502297751,637
Q3 2014667505121,787
Q4 2014977642482,075
Q1 201581069Not published3,080
Q2 2015693269Not published3,524
Q3 2015765268Not published4,007
Q4 2015499461Not published4,049
Q1 2016821812104,256
Q2 2016845421124,712
Q3 2016905306745,522
Q4 2016903219Not published6,309
Q1 201775295177,072
Q2 2017720287247,709
Q3 2017660863Not published7,645
Q4 20174931,344Not published6,735
Q1 2018862901Not published6,243
Q2 2018957569207,447
Q3 2018997414627,818
Q4 2018467726207,660
Q1 2019797443318,119
Q2 2019921270158,821
Q3 20191,171574399,295
Q4 2019867349129,799
Q1 20201,013436Not published10,373
Q2 20206047305710,309
Q3 20207397252310,332
Q4 20207407326210,304
Q1 2021205641419,894

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

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
  • Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors)68-44 monthsService request date September 04, 2016
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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