EB-5 Unreserved China Final Action Date — 14-Month History & Trend

The EB-5 Unreserved line for China covered more distance than any other cutoff on this site over these 14 bulletins. The Final Action Date advanced from 22 January 2014 to 22 September 2016 — more than two and a half years of progress — and almost all of it arrived in two large jumps. The line sat flat for the first three bulletins, then leapt 685 days in the August 2025 bulletin, moving from January 2014 to 8 December 2015. After another flat stretch through the autumn, it advanced 220 days in December 2025, then settled into smaller moves: 31 days in January 2026, 17 days in April, and 21 days in May 2026, reaching 22 September 2016. The June 2026 bulletin held that date unchanged.

The EB-5 Unreserved category for China behaves quite differently from the older EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 employment lines, and that contrast is the useful context here. Large, irregular jumps like the 685-day step reflect how this category's demand and number availability can shift, particularly because the EB-5 reserved set-aside categories — Rural, High-Unemployment, and Infrastructure — draw separately on the overall EB-5 allocation. When the set-aside categories are undersubscribed, unused numbers can flow into the unreserved pool, which can produce the kind of outsized forward movement seen in this window. We are describing what the official charts recorded, not forecasting the next move.

It is also worth noting what this line did not do: after the two big jumps, it neither retrogressed nor stalled for long, instead making a few small advances before holding flat in June 2026. A category that has moved sharply can just as easily sit still for several bulletins or move backward in a future month; the record here covers only what has already happened, and per-country EB-5 demand from China can change the picture in either direction.

For anyone tracking EB-5, the most useful comparison is between the Unreserved China line and the set-aside categories, which have generally remained Current for China through this window even as the Unreserved cutoff sat years in the past. That difference is central to how applicants and their advisors think about EB-5 paths, but none of it is advice about any individual petition, which depends on facts only a qualified attorney can assess. Use the interactive trends chart linked below to see the Unreserved line against the set-aside categories, or against other countries. The official Visa Bulletin controls every date shown here, and this page is informational only.