EB-2 NIW

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Every published USCIS Administrative Appeals Office decision in this category, filterable by outcome, prong, year, occupation and service center. Multiple approved self-petitioners named reading the decisions in their own field as the most useful free hour they spent, so this exists to make that possible. Information, not legal advice.

Decisions indexed 4,9872015 to 2026

Sustained 3.2% 135 of 4,196 decided on the merits, about one in 31

Remanded 10.2% 428 sent back — not a win

Most contested Prong 1 in 91% of decisions naming a prong

What these numbers are not

Every decision here is an appeal of a petition that was already denied, so none of this is an approval rate. USCIS does not publish approved petitions, and no NIW-specific approval rate exists in any official source.

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