EB-5 High Unemployment
Targeted employment area set-aside, 10 percent
The category is current
The all-areas column has been current in every issue of the 12 months to September 2026. There is no cut-off, so there is no queue to measure.
It has been current in every one of the 36 issues published here, October 2023 to September 2026.
Past pace is a record of what happened, not a schedule.
Movement, all areas
Final Action Dates across the 36 published months.
The all-areas column has fewer than two dated months in the published range, so there is no movement to plot: it was current or unavailable rather than sitting on a cut-off. Any country column that does carry a cut-off is shown in the table below.
By country of chargeability
| Area | Final Action Dates | Dates for Filing | Since August | Pace, 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All chargeability areas except those listed | C (current, no wait) | C (current, no wait) | still current | not measurable |
| China, mainland born | C (current, no wait) | C (current, no wait) | still current | not measurable |
| India | C (current, no wait) | C (current, no wait) | still current | not measurable |
| Mexico | C (current, no wait) | C (current, no wait) | still current | not measurable |
| Philippines | C (current, no wait) | C (current, no wait) | still current | not measurable |
What the record shows
Measured across the 36 issues published here, for this category alone.
How far apart the countries are
In September 2026 no country in this category carries a dated cut-off, so there is no spread to measure. Every column is either current, with no cut-off at all, or unavailable.
How steady the movement is
There is no dated cut-off in this record from which to measure movement. The category remained current or unavailable instead of moving through a dated queue.
The annual reset
There are not yet enough month-on-month comparisons in this category to measure the fiscal-year pattern separately.
Backward steps on record
No cut-off in this category has moved backwards in any of the 36 issues published here.
What the record shows for this category
Every published cell of this category reads current: all 5 country columns in each of the 36 issues, on the Final Action Dates chart and on the Dates for Filing chart alike. There is no cut-off anywhere in it, so there is no queue position to measure, nothing to move, and nothing to fall back. The Dates for Filing chart is worth stating separately. It is the earlier of the two and the one people quote, and it carries no cut-off here either, so there is no month in this record where filing early would have bought anything.
Categories tracked here with no cut-off on either chart in any issue: 3 of 15, this one among them. Every other category has carried one at some point, in at least one country column.
That is the whole of the record, and the record is about the past. The bulletin publishes no forecast and neither does this page: a category with no cut-off today can acquire one in any later issue, exactly as others here have, and nothing measured from an empty column says whether this one will.
The reserved allocations behind these categories are set by statute rather than by the bulletin, and are explained with their citations in the guide to the EB-5 set-asides.
Questions this page answers
- Is EB-5 High Unemployment current?
- Yes, for the all-areas column: no cut-off has been published for it in any of the 36 issues here, October 2023 to September 2026. No country carries a cut-off in this category in September 2026 either.
- Has EB-5 High Unemployment ever moved backwards?
- Not once in the 36 issues published here. That is a fact about this category rather than a rule: a cut-off retrogresses when demand exceeds what is left of the annual limit, and that can happen to any of them.
- When will a particular priority date be reached?
- The bulletin does not answer that, and neither does this site on its own authority. Past pace is a record of what happened, not a schedule. The history page offers a projection driven by a pace you choose, alongside the measured error of that method, which on this data misses by a median of several months even one year out.
Current values from the September 2026 bulletin, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs. Movement computed across 36 published months, 12 for the headline pace.