Petition adjudication is measured in years rather than months, then consular processing or adjustment, then two years of conditional residence and the I-829 stage. Preparation of the equity source-of-funds file itself typically takes weeks to months.
Three stages, each with its own clock
The first stage is preparation and filing: reconstructing nine years of grants, vestings and sales, obtaining the regional center’s documents and executing the subscription and escrow. Investors who are already lawfully in the United States on another status with a visa number available may under the 2022 Act file Form I-485 concurrently with the I-526E, but a family living in Val-des-Monts will ordinarily wait for approval and then complete consular processing. The second stage is adjudication of the I-526E, which USCIS reports in its processing-time tables and which has historically taken well over a year, with rural and infrastructure projects given priority processing under the Act.
The third stage begins on admission as conditional residents: the two-year conditional period, followed by Form I-829 filed in the ninety-day window before the second anniversary, and its own adjudication, during which residence continues by operation of law. Throughout, the capital must remain invested for the sustainment period the Act prescribes, and EB-5 does not require her to stop working.