The USCIS issued its statistics for the entrepreneur immigrant visa petitions and for application by the entrepreneurs to remove the condition from their green card status.
From the form available here it is apparent that in 2012 the USCIS received an unprecedented amount of the immigrant visa petitions and as a result the number of approved petitions was high as well. However, how successful the applicants were?
The ratio of receipt/ approval in 2010 was 1.43; in 2011: 2.42; and in 2012: 1.64. So what does it mean? It means, that when the ratio of the tow number is close to 1, there was approximately equal number of receipt and approval that year. If the number is high, lets’ say like 4.6 in 1999, it means, that denials/non approvals were way higher than the number of application files. So, using this measure, the most successful for immigrant entrepreneurs year was 2009; and the worst year was 1999. It is just a fun statistics and it does not include “roll over” applications and approvals of applications submitted din prior years.