Form guide

Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Worker

Form I-140 is the employment-based immigrant petition — the green card petition for workers. Employers file most of them; the EB-1A and the EB-2 national interest waiver are the two a person can file for themselves. Its approval sets your priority date in the visa queue.

Filing fee$715USCIS schedule, edition 09/09/2026

Who files itThe employer — or you, on the EB-1A and EB-2 NIW self-petitions

Filled by our softwareFrom your answers, checked before filing

Part by part

What the form asks

The classification
Which employment category the petition claims — EB-1, EB-2, or EB-3 — and whether it is employer-filed or a self-petition.
The evidence case
Degrees, letters, publications, citations, awards — the record measured against the category’s legal criteria.
The priority date
The filing date that holds your place in the visa queue, tracked in the monthly Visa Bulletin.

Watch for

Where cases go wrong

Foreign degrees with no credential evaluation

Recommendation letters that praise without evidencing the legal criteria

Misreading the Visa Bulletin — an approved I-140 is not yet a green card

Choosing a category the record does not support

Every one of these is a completeness problem — the kind the software checks for before your packet is marked ready.

Where it appears

Petitions that use I-140

EB-2 national interest waiverSelf-petition, no employer needed EB-1A extraordinary abilitySelf-petition for top-of-field individuals

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