USCIS reports how many EB-2 national-interest petitions it received and approved each quarter, by the petitioner’s country of birth. These are the 116 countries with at least 25 petitions received across the window. Receipts and approvals are counted separately — a quarter’s approvals include petitions filed earlier, and denials are not published by country — so they sit side by side and are never combined into an approval rate.
USCIS petition-stage filing flows — Form I-140, EB-2 national-interest waiver, counted by the petitioner’s country of birth. This is the filing population, not the appeal record shown elsewhere on the site.
NIW approval rate · national
48.1%
most recent quarter (FY2026 Q2)
66.9%
cumulative (since FY2023 Q1)
Share of decided NIW petitions that were approved — nationwide, across all countries, reflecting the petitions decided each quarter, not those filed in it. USCIS does not publish denials by country of birth, so there is no per-country NIW rate; this national figure is the only NIW rate USCIS publishes. Implied wait near 7.3 years. (S27)
Hover or tap a country — its approval rate and filing flows appear here.
NIW petitions received< 100100–499500–1,9992,000–7,9998,000+no data
Shading is filing volume — not an approval rate.
Peak country volume 23,280 received. The complete, sortable figures for every country are in the table below.
Source: USCIS quarterly EB-2 NIW receipts and approvals by country of birth (8 quarters). Places with fewer than 25 receipts across the window are not shown. (S65)