Folks,

My employer just started my GC filing process via EB2. The company attorney submitted PWD today and says it takes around 3-4 months to approve. And, next 6-8 months for PERM. I would be qualified to EB2-NIW and was talking to another attorney on my own.

But considering time, effort and finance, I agreed with my employer for EB2 process. I now am concerned with the fact of its longer processing time. The attorney says it will take somewhere around 1.5-2 yrs. Can you guys share your recent EB2 experiences? How long did it take to approve your case? I'd appreciate your input.

Thank you,

GK

My company said same thing

3-4 months for PWD. 2-3 months for advertisements if things go smoothly and then file I-140 so about 10-12 months at least. NIW get approved usually in less than 6 months most of the time.

Here is my time line, hope this helps:

Wage submitted: July 2016
Wage approved: Oct 2016
Advertisement: Nov 2016- Jan 2017

It took 8 months for me.

@Jonny - Thank you for your response, thats really helpful but mine was not in NIW does that mean EB2 would be faster.. newbie here do just confusion on terms
@Abhilasha - Did you mean the entire process from Wage till you had atleast EAD ? or GC on hand ?

@Jonny what is first file transfer and second file transfer. I am too newbie here. Could you please explain overall process after 485 is filed.

EB2

PWD Submitted 2/2017
PWD approved 5/2017
Advertisement 5-8 /2017
Perm Applied 9/2017
Perm Approved 3/2018
I 140 Applied 4/2018
I40 Premium and Lafada(RFE/NOID) approved : 08/2018

I 485 Applied 10/2018 (Couldn't do in Sept 2018 due to Retrogression)

Waiting since then:
Take home: depends on how fast the company and lawyer processes the docs something like - 2 years from PWD date)

@country_boy. Thank you for your timeline. Really helpful is preparation on timeline.

Thanks for your inputs folks.

Abhilasha, did you file NIW or regular EB2 via PERM? Can you please elaborate a bit?

@guitarc I am not expert on NIW but it means National Interest Waiver. NIW does not require PERM filing but to qualify, one should have Advance Degree like Ph.D

@KhaiK these days all Employment based applicant have to appear for visa Interview and for that your file goes through various USCIS office (Nebraska/Texas - NBC Missouri - and your local USCIS office).  First transfer = file transferred to NBC from NE or TX (initial filing); second transfer = file transferred from NBC to your local USCIS office for interview.

Which one is processing faster these days EB2 vs EB3 ???

Thank you Jonny

Applied i485 this week and currently i am in TPS which expires in June 24 looking at time line . what is time line for EAD approval these days . How long usually it takes ? Can somebody please share the timeline.

Seems like I made a mistake by not going via EB2-NIW. It would have save a great deal of time.

@Mr P,
It took about 2 and a half months for me to get the EAD/AP card.