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Six RIA-Era EB-5 Investors — Fastest I-526E Approval in 9 Months, All No RFE
All six I-526Es approved in 9–12 months, no RFE

Six RIA-era EB-5 clients invested in rural set-aside projects and received their I-526E approvals — fastest in nine months, longest in twelve, all without RFEs.
Each case had a distinct source-of-funds story:
Client 1 used a friend-loan structure where the family had substantial assets but most were tied up in long-term financial products. We built the case on the loan's commercial reasonableness, the friend's company financials, and the secured collateral structure.
Client 2 used a phased filing: initial filing partial-investment, then a follow-on submission. We pre-staged the structure so the second submission slotted into the original record cleanly.
Client 3's funds came from a parent's mortgaged property — purchased decades earlier from accumulated salary. We reconstructed the historical income → savings → property → mortgage chain at line-item granularity.
Clients 4–6 used full-investment structures with sources verified through analogous documentation chains.
All six approvals demonstrate the team's ability to handle a wide range of source-of-funds patterns under the new regulatory framework.
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