Don’t look to just the visa bulletin when estimating EB-5 wait times

EB-5 expert Suzanne Lazicki tells us that the Visa Bulletin exists to pace demand with supply. But to properly calculate EB-5 wait times, she advises that one must count the number of EB-5 applicants in five possible places, including pending I-526 petitions — which the Department of State does not consider when publishing their Visa Bulletin. The Visa Bulletin, therefore, is only one part of the EB-5 wait-time puzzle.See Lazicki’s blog