U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment-Based Immigrant Visa, Fifth Preference (EB-5) Fee Rule (Proposed rule), 90 FR 48516

Proposed EB-5 fee rule (90 FR 48516, 23 Oct 2025, 37 pp., text layer, no images). Contains: Table 1 current vs proposed fees for all EB-5 forms (I-526, I-526E initial/amendment, new I-527, I-829, I-956 initial/amendment, I-956F, I-956G, I-956H, I-956K); Table 2 current fees; proposed USD 95 technology fee; Integrity Fund fees (Table 9) and proposed 8.25% inflation increase (1,085/10,825/21,650) and late penalties; Integrity Fund collections FY2023-FY2025 and regional centers paying FY2023-FY2025; I-829 backlog (end FY2023, Q3 FY2024); 2022 Act processing time goals (Table 4); fee-study receipt forecasts (Tables 3, 7, 12, 13); completion rates (Table 5); 300 projected terminations and termination cost; additional staffing (334 FTE); Table 6 cost projection (EB-5 lines only); Table 7/8 revenue and ABC cost by form; RIA Tables 10-16 (transfers, costs, discounting); IRFA: 640 regional centers, 31,805 regional-center investments FY2016-2021, USD 80,000 admin fee, Tables 17-21 sample statistics, NCE/JCE counts, project capital statistics; PRA respondents and burdens; regulatory text. Out of scope / not recorded: USCIS-wide budget and revenue figures (IEFA shares, USD 5,095.4m etc., USD 4,084.8m other revenue, USD 50m State Dept IAA), CPI-U values and alternative inflation rates, BLS wage rates (Table 14), benefits multipliers, per-form time-burden hours (Table 15 rows) and PRA burden hours, per-year discounted series (Table 16 rows), Table 12 weights and per-form fee differences (derived from recorded fees and volumes), percent differences, small-business size standards and small-entity counts/shares (Table 19 bottom rows, 87%), sampling/methodology counts (339, 371, 198, 111, 885, 489, filtering steps), Deloitte 6.1% return and derived USD 6.5m-767m, USD 10.8m understatement bound, the 98.6%/1.36%/22.2% shares (kept in notes), cost reallocation examples for other forms (I-140, N-600, I-485), UMRA threshold. Current fees for I-526 (11,160), I-829 (9,525) and I-956 (47,695) from 1 Apr 2024 and the statutory Integrity Fund fees are already in program_terms from other sources and were not repeated as terms; investment minimums (1,050,000/800,000) likewise.