My Green Card Application Approved

I am so excited to receive this approval letter for my green card application today! I submitted my application in september in 2022 and got approved in only 4 months. The processing speed was suprisingly fast! I thought it would take about one year according to the experience of many other people.

Although my I-140 application has been approved, it doesn’t mean that I have got my green card. Instead, I will need to wait until the immagration department’s final action date to arrive at my priority date (September 13, 2022) to submit my I-485 form to adjust my status and finally get the card. Right now the final action date is June of 2019, which means I will need to wait for at least 3-4 years.

Anyway, it is a great leap forward, the rest is just a matter of time. I will be patient.

The I-140 petition approval letter. My green card applicaiton catagory is EB2 National Interest Waiver (NIW). The requirement for this catagory is to have an advanced degree (master’s or PhD) and to demonstrate that the applicant has the potential to contribute to the academic society of the US (basically papers, citations, and reviews).

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