USCIS denies your I-140 petition on June 1, 2019.

(Disclaimer: past results do not guarantee future results). If both are approved, the attorney who takes up this case will get a bonus from me.

The new employer is a large company with strong financials in this market, so we expect the H-1 to be approved and we expect denial of extension of stay.

I talked to quite a few top law firms recently - BAL, Wolfsdorf etc, and they all mentioned that tech startup founders are finding it really difficult to get EB1-A. If you work in tech and are a startup co-founder, the chances of getting an EB1-A currently are really low. So the actual denial count (i.e., standalone action item (a) above) may actually be lower than 25%.

Do note that the denial count includes: (a) cases that were actually denied by USCIS (b) cases terminated by USCIS, and (c) cases that the petitioners withdrew.

The denial rate stands at 25% (approximately).

Premium Processing is a service offered by USCIS for which anyone filing an I-140 (or with an I-140) can pay USCIS an extra $1225 and they will guarantee processing your case within 2 weeks or they will refund your money (and, according to USCIS, continue processing the case in an expedited manner).

Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), 2018 has seen a record denial rate for employment-related immigration filings, with an increase of 37% in denials from 2016 to. Here are points I considered * Average Consular processing numbers for EB1 & EB2 / year are based on historic data from 1998 to 2008.

Recently, I did some calculations on EB1 & EB spillover to EB2 India/China for FY 2010.

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