Estate administration and immigration processing are different sequences. Neither predicts the other’s decision date.
Track the separate milestones
Document actual distribution and investment events, then the relevant petition, visa availability and visa or adjustment steps. Conditional residence begins on immigrant admission or adjustment approval and starts its own I-829 clock; an executor’s final statement does not begin or complete that obligation.
Schedule three checkpoints across the conditional period: an early one to agree the evidence list, a midpoint one to test what has been collected, and one roughly six months before the window opens to prepare the filing. Processing times vary by petition type, project and country of chargeability and change over time, so the current published information should be checked rather than an estimate relied upon. If the closing tranche after tax and distribution meets the threshold for a targeted-employment-area project, the petition can be filed as soon as the path-of-funds evidence is assembled, which often takes longer than investors expect because early corporate records must be found.
- USCIS — EB-5 investor program
- USCIS — business and investment visa overview
- USCIS — Child Status Protection Act
- Department of State — Visa Bulletin
- USCIS — fee schedule
- 8 USC 1153(b)(5) — investor capital and adjustment provisions
- USCIS — Form I-829
- 8 USC 1153 — current investor capital requirements
- 8 CFR 204.6(e) — direct employee and full-time definitions only
- USCIS — I-829 instructions
- Department of State — employment immigrant travel