So, went through all Eb-2 NIW on my own, without any lawyers. Have the final green card interview this month. You don't need to pay thousands of dollars to any lawyers. it's either you get it or not.
AS long as you prepare a good file to send to USCIS.

How long did you wait after being documentarily complete to receiving the inteview letter schedule? What Embassy? What is your priority date?

Good luck on the interview. Do let us know how it goes down. So it only took around 90 days from DQ to the receipt of the interview letter?

What is your consulte/embassy? there is a forum called Visajourney, and people from all around the world are posting their timelines. All you need to do is find the country of your embassy and visa category. But, if you are in Canada, it's a 2 year wait time. Especially now, with retrogression..its getting harder to get an interview. So, it's pointless to pay the lawyer even. Our priority date was Oct 2021, the date we filed I-140. Will keep posted how the interview will go.

I'd appreciate interview feedback as well. Currently waiting as my PD has retrogressed.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Congrats on getting the approval, however, for every success story, my law firm gets contacted by 10 self-petitions that got RFEd or denied. It is a multimillion dollar career that you are trying to save a 4 day trip worth of FedEx pay by doing it yourself. As an airline pilots myself, I have flown with plenty of pilots that consider themselves financial experts, legal experts, military experts, gun experts, beer brewing experts, etc. when most are not.

That's me, happy to help!

About the recommendation letter, you have objective and subjective recommenders. Oscar the scientist 👨‍🔬, talks about recommendation letters. I can’t post links yet, but you can look up “Independent recommendation letters: minimize RFEs - EB2 NIW” on youtube.

Seems this forum is filled with objective recommenders :-)

At the moment I’m struggling with an RFE 😖

A quick question for you. How many people get the green card application rejected?

Hi Fubster, you can email me at [email protected] to discuss offline.

I don't have the stats as they don't release them without FOIAs. A lot of things done by USCIS are discretionary and this is one of them. For example, USCIS has a 50% overall approval rate on asylums, however, if adjudicated by an immigration judge, it can vary between a 5% and 97% denial rate. Within those stats, most of the denials are self-petitions. The highest statistical probability of success for anything immigration related will be with an attorney.

As a side note related to choosing attorneys, please do your due diligence. Research the attorney to make sure they can practice law in the US. You can easily go to the State BAR website and search by name. In my immigration practice, I have represented numerous victims of immigration fraud as it's very common in the US.

Thank you for the response. What I should have asked is how many of your clients have been refused?

None yet.

The process is long, expensive, excruciating and unpredictable.

Took me 8 months to compile my application and 8 days for the approval.

The wait for the PD is longer and feel that the seniority boat will be long gone by the time I get my visa.

YYZ_bound,

Any update on your interview schedule? Did you get the VISA?

Hayman Woodward is asking 25.000 USD way out of standard average market price from other firm laws.

$25k is insane

Anyone else waiting for an interview at your country"s US Embassy?

How long have you been waiting and were you affected by the retrogression in the Visa Bulletin for June?

it took only 8 days for the USCIS to approve your petition?

Hello Everyone,

I made it, I got approved, all done my myself alone after researching the internet and sharing ideas with other pilots. My profile:

- FO, Wide Body, Less than 4000 hrs, EASA ATP, EU Citizen
- Maters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering
- 6 years Work Experience as Engineer, 7 Years as FO
- Aviation Freelance Consultant
- No Papers, No publications, 4 Ref. Letters
- I used common sense and good arguments

I got a direct approval, no RFE

It took me 4 months to write, after researching the internet for a year. I got some guidance from people I met in FB groups. Lawyers asked for 18k $ non refundable paid upfront. The same lawyers ask for 5000 $ (2500 upfront and 2500$ once approved) when it is about other professions. It is for exactly this reason that I have decided to apply myself.

Good Luck everyone.