About the EB-5 Visa Classification (web page)

USCIS web page (updated 18 Nov 2025) on EB-5 requirements: alert on the 14 Nov 2025 Form G-1055 fee schedule restoring pre-April 2024 fees (event added); programme history (1990 creation, 1992 regional center pilot, 15 Mar 2022 Reform and Integrity Act, regional center visas through 30 Sept 2027: already in events from other sources); new commercial enterprise definition (40% expansion test); job creation (10 jobs, 90% indirect for regional centers: added as terms); troubled business (2 years, 20% loss) and full-time (35 hours) definitions; capital definition; minimum investment table (before 15 Mar 2022 USD 1,000,000 / 500,000 / 1,000,000 high-employment; from 15 Mar 2022 USD 1,050,000 / 800,000: pre-2022 standard and TEA terms already in the data, the other three added); five-yearly CPI-U adjustment from 1 Jan 2027 (already in events); TEA definitions (150% unemployment, 20,000 population); visa set-asides 20% rural, 10% high unemployment, 2% infrastructure (added as terms). Not recorded as separate terms: definitional thresholds (40%, 2 years and 20% loss, 35 hours, 150%, 20,000), which define eligibility rather than set a price or quota. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).