Eight people reported the outcome of their own EB-2 NIW or EB-1A case on public immigration forums in the week of October 13 to 19. Six of the eight said they were approved. One reported a Request for Evidence, and one reported a denial. Most came from r/EB2_NIW, with the rest from r/eb_1a, r/USCIS and the 1Point3Acres forum.
The six approvals were spread across categories. Four were EB-2 NIW I-140 petitions: two were reported after an RFE response, one of them from an applicant in computer science, and two were reported without an RFE. A fifth was an EB-2 to EB-3 downgrade timeline. The sixth described an I-485 adjustment-of-status approval rather than the underlying I-140. None of the approval posts stated a receipt date or a service center.
The negative reports were thinner. The RFE was reported under premium processing, without saying which prongs USCIS questioned. The EB-1A denial was reported as a second denial at the final-merits stage, with the applicant saying three of the regulatory criteria had been accepted both times — the kind of outcome that turns on the final-merits analysis rather than on the count of criteria.
What the sample cannot support is any statement about processing speed or RFE rates. The posts were written between three hours and four days before this roundup, and none of the summaries read for it named a service center, a receipt date or a decision date, so no median or range of receipt-to-decision times can be drawn, and the one premium-processing report says nothing about how long the case took. The eight reports are also a self-selected group: people who post about a decision are more likely to have an unusual result than people who do not.
These are self-reported, unverified posts from public forums, not official statistics, and one case says nothing about another. Applicants who want official numbers should use USCIS’s own processing-times page , which shows the agency’s ranges by form and office.
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Source: Self-reported community posts