Exact USCIS category source
I-140 Advanced degree or exceptional ability (E21) Processing Time
Advanced degree or exceptional ability (E21)
Current published range
2.5–7.5 months
USCIS publication
Source row
136A-E21
Service Center Operations · SCD
Upper bound of each published range. Source: USCIS processing time publications.
3 office series, plotted separately. Service Center Operations reports this row currently; 2 offices previously reported it and their series end at their last publication (Nebraska Service Center through 2025-07-28; Texas Service Center through 2025-07-28). Lines are never drawn between offices.
Dashed lines are offices that no longer report this row; each ends at its last published date for this row.
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Citation
USCIS processing times for Form I-140, Advanced degree or exceptional ability (E21), were 2.5–7.5 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-140/categories/136a-e21/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840
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Scope
This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-140 source row 136A-E21, across all offices and all publications. The current range above is the range published for that row at Service Center Operations. The chart plots the full published history of every office that has reported this row — Service Center Operations, Nebraska Service Center, and Texas Service Center — as 3 separate series. Labeled “Advanced degree or exceptional ability (E21).” It is the Advanced degree or exceptional ability (E21) category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.
For other categories, use the form-wide I-140 source page.
Methodology and limits
Values are copied from USCIS processing time publications and filtered by the exact form and subtype codes above. No other I-140 category, headline range, or office aggregate enters this page.
These published ranges describe USCIS data, not an individual case prediction. This page is informational and is not legal advice.
Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Retrieved from 63 USCIS source publications, issued monthly; latest source publication Aug 17, 2026.