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USCIS I-140 Receipts & Approvals by Country (EB-2 NIW)

Updated: Author: Alina Kanametova

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Official USCIS statistics: Form I-140 immigrant petitions received and their current status, broken down by country of birth - useful EB-2 NIW benchmarking...

EB-2 NIW Petition

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A USCIS statistical report on Form I-140 receipts and current status from FY2013 to FY2023 (Q1), broken out by employment preference and by country for India, China, the Philippines, South Korea, and Mexico. It gives totals for received, approved, denied, and pending/other cases, and it includes EB-2 National Interest Waiver petitions within the EB-2 category. The report also notes that filings are counted by filing fiscal year, not adjudication year.

Key points

  • USCIS tracks Form I-140 receipts and current status from FY2013 to FY2023 (Q1).
  • The report lists totals for received, approved, denied, and pending/other cases.
  • EB1 is broken into E11 extraordinary ability, E12 outstanding professors/researchers, and E13 multinational managers.
  • EB2 totals include National Interest Waiver petitions and are shown as E21 advanced-degree professionals.
  • EB3 is split into E31 skilled workers, E32 professionals, and EW3 needed unskilled workers.
  • Country tables are shown for India, China, the Philippines, South Korea, and Mexico.
  • The report says filings are counted by the fiscal year received, not the fiscal year adjudicated.
  • It notes that some pending counts include administrative closures and that counts can change with system updates.

What is inside

  1. All countries: FY2013-FY2023 (Q1)
  2. EB1 totals and approvals by category
  3. EB2 totals and approvals by category
  4. EB3 totals and approvals by category
  5. The Philippines
  6. South Korea

When it helps

This serves as statistical background for EB-2 NIW or EB-1A/EB-1B context, because it shows USCIS filing, approval, denial, and pending volumes by category and by country. It also shows that EB-2 includes NIW petitions.

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Source: Community (anonymized). The material opens on the site. Reference material, not legal advice.

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