The U.S. has an interesting approach, as I think we all know. Essentially they stockpile or warehouse all of their applications and establish a priority processing list based on a strict quota broken down country by country for most of their immigration categories. The exception is their EB-5 investor class, which is assigned 10,000 visas total per year and has been undersubscribed in every year in which it has operated.
In the last couple of years, the U.S. investor program has seen a great deal of interest. Their numbers of applications are now approaching probably about 8,000 to 9,000 per year, so they're getting close to their target figure for yearly processing, but so far they have been under.
The U.K. has created a very large investment requirement--