USCIS is reporting - and we're seeing - much higher RFE and denial rates for EB1A, EB1B, and NIW green card applications and O-1 applications.

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throwaway219450 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you get the impression this is a cause for concern for qualified applicants? Rephrased: what sort of applications are now getting denied/RFE'd that would have been fine say a couple years ago?

Anecdotes would suggest that a lot of people were able to get these visas because there was some fairly loose interpretation of the criteria.

I'm particularly interested in EB1A.

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proberts 6 hours ago | parent [-]

EB1As are extremely difficult to get right now. This is particularly true for non-scientific/research/academic employees who are not very highly compensated.

	▲	throwaway219450 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Small clarification on wording here (non-). Do you mean academics/researchers are finding it challenging? For context, am postdoc and I was told by a local immigration firm, within the last year, that I had a good profile for EB1A.