We will still accept and review Form I-829, Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status, including those filed on or after July 1, 2021. Although we cannot review your response right now, we will keep your response for review if circumstances change. If we wrote to you about your petition or application on or before June 30, 2021, you should review our written correspondence and respond by the due date (as applicable). At the end of calendar year 2021, unless there is new legislation for regional centers, we will reevaluate whether to keep this hold in place. Until further notice, we will hold (that is, not act on) any pending petition or application of these form types that is dependent on the lapsed statutory authority and was filed before the end of the statutory authorization. Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, and any Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, and Form I-131, Application for Travel Document, associated with a Form I-485 application that is based on a Form I-526 filed by an approved regional center.Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, when it indicates that the petitioner’s investment is associated with an approved regional center and.Form I-924, Application for Regional Center Designation Under the Immigrant Investor Program, except when the application type indicates that it is an amendment to the regional center’s name, organizational structure, ownership, or administration and.Due to the sunset in authorization for the Regional Center Program, we will reject the following forms received on or after July 1, 2021: This sunset in authorization does not affect EB-5 petitions filed by investors who are not seeking a visa under the Regional Center Program. Statutory authorization for the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program ended at midnight on June 30, 2021. 21, 2019, version of the form reflects updates from the now-vacated rule. In addition, we again will accept the April 15, 2019, version of Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, because the Nov. 21, 2019, on this website and in the USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part G, Investors.
In other words, we are applying the regulations in effect before Nov.
USCIS will use this information to contact you and schedule biometrics collection for your Form I-829 at a local Application Support Center.Īgain, we need to contact you only if all three of the criteria listed at the top of this notice apply to you.