Citizenship & Green Card Maintenance
There Is No Premium Processing for the I-130. Here Is What Actually Moves a Family Petition
USCIS does not offer premium processing for Form I-130. There is no fee that buys a faster decision on a family petition, no upgrade to request, and no version of Form I-907 that applies. Anyone offering to accelerate an I-130 in exchange for payment is describing a service that does not exist.
From L-1A to EB-1C: How the Transfer Can Set Up a Green Card Petition
An approved L-1A petition helps an EB-1C case but does not decide it. The two categories share the one-year-abroad requirement, the qualifying corporate relationship, and the managerial and executive definitions, and neither requires labor certification (PERM). An EB-1C case requires that the U.S. employer must already have been doing business for at least one year on the date the Form I-140 is filed.
EB-1A vs EB-2 NIW: Which Self-Petition Green Card Should You File?
EB-1A (extraordinary ability) is the harder category to qualify for, and EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) is the more accessible one. In recent Visa Bulletins, EB-1 cutoff dates have been more favorable than EB-2 dates, although visa availability changes monthly by preference category and country of chargeability, so the current bulletin controls.