Merit Visa Services LLC

10/29/2026

🇺🇸 Shelved your green card plans this year? Look at the latest numbers first.

Between April and June 2026, USCIS approved 3,835 EB-2 National Interest Waiver petitions. The NIW approval rate has now climbed three quarters in a row, from 35.7% last summer to 55.3%.

EB-1A is a tougher story. 1,348 approvals against 2,832 denials in the same quarter, about 32%. Officers are asking more of extraordinary ability cases, and many people who would have filed EB-1A two years ago now stand a better chance with NIW, or with both filed together.

So the category you choose matters as much as the record you bring. And what carries a petition is your work and what it means for the United States, whatever your field. Nurses, engineers, teachers, founders, farmers, artists. We have helped more than 40 people reach approval by showing exactly that.

Want to know where you stand? Message us or visit meritvisaservices.com and we will tell you plainly which path fits and what is missing.

Source, USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data, FY2026 Q3
https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/immigration-and-citizenship-data

Every petition is decided on its own merits and past figures do not predict any single case. Merit Visa Services LLC is a document preparation service. We are not a law firm and do not give legal advice.

These reports provide data on various aspects of USCIS operations. In addition, certain tables list the USCIS office responsible for the adjudication.

09/15/2026

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09/15/2026

I still remember the morning this message came through, an EB-1A approved with no request for evidence at all. People assume a petition of that weight needs a big law firm behind it, and I have watched more than forty clients prove otherwise by petitioning in their own names with their evidence properly organised. I work from Tucson with clients across Africa, Europe and the US. Merit Visa Services is a non-attorney document preparation service. Message me if you want an honest read on your profileEb2niw

09/03/2026

Most of you think a green card needs a company in America to sponsor you. That is one route, and it is a slow one. There are two other routes where you sponsor yourself. One is EB-1A, for people who have built a strong record in their field, and the other is EB2 NIW, where you show that your work is important enough to America that they waive the job offer requirement altogether. I have done many of these for doctors, lab scientists, engineers, public health people, IT people and business owners, and the ones who succeed are the ones who kept records of what they did. The waiting lists you read about apply to countries that send very large numbers of applicants each year. Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and most of Africa are not in that group, so once a petition is approved there is usually no queue for the green card itself. So if this is something you have been turning over in your mind, take a weekend and write down your degrees, publications, the projects you led, money or the lives your work touched, any awards, and any time you trained or supervised others. Look at that list with cold eyes. That list will tell you whether you have a case today or whether you need one or two more years. I run Merit Visa Services in Tucson and we prepare these petitions. I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to be one. I prepare the documents, and so far more than forty ofour clients have been approved. If you want me to look at your list, message me Eb2niw

08/24/2026

A client asked me last week why so many strong EB-1A profiles get denied. The answer took a few minutes, so I recorded it here instead of writing it out. Merit Visa Services prepares EB-1A and NIW self-petition documents. Non-attorney document preparation, Tucson, Arizona.

08/24/2026

08/02/2026

A good number of our clients come from the countries most affected by the current restrictions, and these are hard months for them. What is worth understanding is that the doors closing are mostly on one side of the system, while the merit-based side stays open and is arguably being pushed harder than before. Farmers will tell you the planting happens in the dry season. If you hold an advanced degree, or your record puts you in the top percentile of your field, there is still a petition the system is built to say yes to, and that is exactly the work we do at Merit Visa Services

07/29/2026

Wanted to let you know the visas are being issued, even for the countries that are on the list. This is from 7/28/2026

07/28/2026

We are proud to announce another win!