NIW Requirements

NIW Requirements The bare minimum qualification for the NIW standard is that the foreign national is a member of the professions holding an advanced degree, defined as a bachelor’s degree with five years of progressive experience or a Master’s degree or higher OR has exceptional ability in the sciences, arts or business.  Exceptional ability is […]

Posted on October 15, 2017 at 10:07 am by Immigration Lawyer Peter Messersmith · Permalink · Leave a comment
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National Interest Waiver Approvals – Part II

National Interest Waiver – Part II In continuation of our ongoing segment of national interest waiver approvals, we’re going to discuss another previously approved case.  In this matter, the applicant was an Indian national but unlike today, the EB2 category was current for Indian nationals, and we could file an NIW application and there was […]

Posted on May 7, 2010 at 2:36 pm by Immigration Lawyer Peter Messersmith · Permalink · 3 Comments
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National Interest Waiver Approvals – Part I

National Interest Waiver – Part I I’m going to introduce a new segment to my blog readers.  Many current and potential clients contact me or my office to discuss whether or not they can qualify for certain applications like the national interest waiver.  I wrote one previous entry describing the typical qualifications for our NIW […]

Posted on March 28, 2010 at 6:19 pm by Immigration Lawyer Peter Messersmith · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Recent Success in the National Interest Waiver Category (NIW)

While our firm has always had great success in getting green card applications approved through the national interest waiver category, we have recently have enjoyed noteworthy success in getting them approved quickly.  In the past, we normally saw cases take roughly 10-14 months for NIWs to be approved and green cards to be issued.  Currently, […]