Crowdsourced EB2-NIW cases

See how EB2-NIW cases like yours are going.

Crowdsourced EB2-NIW outcomes, broken down by endeavor field, applicant profile, how you filed, RFE history, and timeline. Each case carries how we know it — tracked against USCIS, owner-reported, or compiled from a public post.

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567 crowdsourced cases
and growing · as of August 2026
Every case 1 square = 1 case
180 decided 385 in flight

Each square is one shared petition. Receipt-backed ones are re-checked against USCIS until the outcome lands — approval, denial, or RFE. Not an official USCIS approval rate.

How the people in this sample filed

Composition facts · not outcome rates
80%
hired an immigration attorney

Of the 537 cases that say how they filed; the rest self-petitioned.

~43
business-day median with premium processing

From the I-907 clock start to USCIS's first action — a decision, or an RFE — approximate. Tracks the current pace: decisions from the last ~45 days, 92 timed cases.

52%
are a research profile

31% industry · 16% a mix — of all 567 cases.

Coverage

Cases across every endeavor field

CS / Software / Data
128
Engineering
119
Medicine / Health
101
Life Sciences / Biotech
72
Business / Finance / Econ
43
Physical Sciences / Math
31
Earth / Env / Energy
28
Social Sciences / Ed / Policy
20
Arts / Humanities
8
Aviation / Transportation
7
Law / Public Safety
6
Other
4
Bar length is relative to the largest field. 567 total
Premium processing

How the 45-business-day clock plays out

Premium processing is the I-907 upgrade. The clock starts at I-907 receipt, and USCIS promises a decision within 45 business days. An RFE hands USCIS a fresh 45-day window after your response, so RFE’d cases are shown separately below. Business-day counts are approximate — I-907 dates are shared by case owners.

~43 business-day median
to USCIS's first action
USCIS promise
45 biz days
↑ median ~43
04590135
~42–43

business days — the middle half of recent first actions, decisions and RFEs alike (92 timed cases, decisions from the last ~45 days). The same window the live queue runs on.

22 of these 92 landed past day 43 — the full range ran ~39–47 business days.

An RFE restarts the 45-day clock — USCIS gets a fresh window after your response. RFE’d cases run much longer (median ~116 business days across 19 cases), so they’re shown separately, never against the promise.

Movement

What moved, week by week

Completed weeks · dated event counts
Week of Aug 10–1610 approvals · 6 denials · 13 RFEs
Week of Aug 3–910 approvals · 4 denials · 18 RFEs
Week of Jul 27 – Aug 24 approvals · 5 denials · 9 RFEs
Week of Jul 20–266 approvals · 1 denial · 11 RFEs
Week of Jul 13–191 denial · 1 RFE
Week of Jul 6–122 approvals · 3 RFEs
Dated by USCIS decision and RFE-issue dates. Weeks fill in as new cases join. Live feed in the app →
Filing cohorts

Cases by filing month

Cohort month · as of August 2026
Aug 2026
20 filed · 0 decided · 20 in flight
Jul 2026
79 filed · 0 decided · 79 in flight
Jun 2026
101 filed · 22 decided · 79 in flight
May 2026
31 filed · 7 decided · 24 in flight
Apr 2026
14 filed · 2 decided · 12 in flight
Mar 2026
24 filed · 8 decided · 16 in flight
Feb 2026
25 filed · 9 decided · 16 in flight
Jan 2026
5 filed · 4 decided · 1 in flight
Dec 2025
7 filed · 1 decided · 6 in flight
Nov 2025
6 filed · 1 decided · 5 in flight
Oct 2025
4 filed · 1 decided · 3 in flight
Sep 2025
9 filed · 2 decided · 7 in flight
Counted as the app's cohorts are: premium cases join in their I-907 month, regular cases in their I-140 month. In-flight counts are a snapshot as of August 2026; recent months keep filling in as owners share their cases. Follow your cohort in the app →
Provenance

How we know each case

346
⟳ tracked

Receipt on file — status confirmed pending by our USCIS check and re-checked over time.

69
✓ USCIS-confirmed

Receipt on file — the outcome itself was read from the USCIS case-status system.

11
owner-reported

Reported by the case owner — includes receipt-backed cases awaiting their first check.

141
compiled

Compiled from a public community post — not first-party.

PROVENANCE
Every case carries its label

Figures are computed over all shared cases, and each case shows how we know it — the label above — with per-case provenance always inspectable in the app. Never presented as an official USCIS rate.

PRIVACY
De-identified by design

We ask your endeavor field, never your endeavor statement. Cases are shown stripped of anything that could identify a petition — no receipt numbers, no firm names.

SMALL GROUPS
Thin slices are hidden

When a segment has too few cases to be meaningful, we suppress it rather than show a misleading number.

NO ADVICE
An instrument, not a lawyer

NIWStats is a data instrument to inform your own judgment. It isn't, and can't be, legal advice.

567 cases, filterable down to ones like yours.

Filter by endeavor field, applicant profile, filing method, RFE history, and timeline — every view shareable, every case carrying its provenance.

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De-identified · we ask your field, never your endeavor statement