Your application will be sent to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. It will be reviewed in 15 days (if you use Premium Processing Service for $1,225)
We will inform you immediately when we receive an answer.An answer can be approval, denial or a request for further evidence. If an answer is approval, you and your family members will need to pass a medical exam at a certified medical facility and pass fingerprints.
After your petition is approved, your case will be sent to National Visa Center (NVC). NVC is in charge of handling the cases processed through the US consulates and Embassies. During this part, we will prepare all forms and documents required by NVC and send the package to them. After the documents are received, an interview will be scheduled for you and your family members. An interview will take place in the US Embassy in Moscow or in one of the Consulate under the US Embassy.
In different years, the statistics approval rate is from 47% to 62%, and for Outstanding Professors and Researchers 90% -95%. Among the applicants there was a number of those, who did not hire an immigration lawyer.
Accordingly, on average, the chances of obtaining a visa with the help of a good immigration lawyer are substantially more than 47-62%.
Preparing of the first application for the EB-1A visa takes about 30 days, depending on the volume of documents and translations. Processing of the EB-1A visa application, if you use Premium Processing Service ($1,225), takes 15 days
After EB-1A visa is granted, an application to adjust the status to Green Card is being prepared within 14 days. The period for processing the application for status change starts from 6 months. The average time for such applications is not published officially. Thus, the approximate period from the beginning of the preparing documents will be from 8 months, if you use Premium Processing Service.