While statistics are available from USCIS regarding the total number of approved and denied EB-5 petitions, these statistics have little bearing on any individual EB-5 case. For investors looking into a project sponsored by a regional center, a more accurate statistic would be the success rate of the EB-5 regional center in question. For direct investments, however, no such metric is available. In general, the success of an EB-5 petition—whether for direct investments or projects sponsored by regional centers—is totally dependent on the success of the new commercial enterprise to create the necessary jobs using the investor’s investment of funds derived from a lawful source.