Philippines — NIW filings
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.
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)
These are filing flows, not a rate: a quarter’s approvals decide petitions filed earlier, and denials are not published by country, so received and approved do not divide into an approval rate.
By quarter
| Quarter | Received | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Q3 | 30 | 15 |
| FY2024 Q4 | 57 | 15 |
| FY2025 Q1 | 70 | 9 |
| FY2025 Q2 | 38 | 14 |
| FY2025 Q3 | 47 | 12 |
| FY2025 Q4 | 40 | 6 |
| FY2026 Q1 | 54 | 7 |
| FY2026 Q2 | 57 | 11 |
How EB-2 petitions from Philippines have been decided
This is the EB-2 advanced-degree category — job-offer cases (E21) and national-interest waivers combined. USCIS does not publish NIW denials separately, so there is no NIW-only rate; NIW is 8% of these approvals here.
These receipt years are essentially fully adjudicated — a settled rate. Recent filings, still being decided, look different (below).
Of every 100 EB-2 petitions filed, where they stand now
Each bar is the current status of the petitions filed that year. Recent years carry a large grey slice — that is the wait, not a decision, which is why a single “approval rate” would mislead until they clear.
Nationally — across all countries and NIW only — the most recent quarter (FY2026Q2) approved 48.1% of the NIW petitions it decided, with roughly 89,215 still pending — an implied wait near 7.3 years. This is a NIW-specific, adjudication-quarter figure; it is not this country’s rate, and the two measure different things.
533 NIW approvals to petitioners born in Philippines across the record. Source: USCIS I-140 Received and Current Status, by fiscal year of receipt (S70); national figures S27/S28.
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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)