EB-1A Extraordinary Ability Self-Check

Sources and official references: USCIS — EB-1 (Extraordinary Ability); 8 CFR §204.5(h)(3) (ten criteria); Kazarian v. USCIS (9th Cir. 2010) and USCIS Policy Manual Vol. 6 Part F Ch. 2 (two-step / final merits); Matter of Dhanasar (NIW). Note: Mukherji v. Miller (D. Neb. Jan 28, 2026) challenged the final-merits step as procedurally invalid, but it is not binding nationwide; 2026 petitions are still adjudicated under the two-step framework. Fee check (2026-09-17, measured): the first two links carry no dollar amounts — the USCIS EB-1 page collected at 11,763 characters and 8 CFR §204.5 at 51,773 characters, with the dollar sign appearing 0 times in each. The amounts on this page come from Form G-1055 (122,050 characters of extracted text) and 8 CFR part 106 (64,621 characters). G-1055 prints the I-140 row as “Paper Filing: $715 plus additional fees, if applicable / Online Filing: $665 plus additional fees, if applicable”, and lists the Asylum Program Fee separately under “Additional Fees” as “a. Regular Petitioner $600 / b. Nonprofit $0 / c. Small Employer or self-petitioner $300” — it is not folded into the form fee, so the subtotal shown here is paper $715 + $300 = $1,015 (online $665 + $300 = $965). 8 CFR §106.2(a)(11) states the same filing fee — “Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker, Form I-140. For filing a petition to classify preference status of an alien based on profession or occupation under section 204(a) of the Act: $715” — but it prints no online amount: §106.1(g) sets an online filing discount, “the fee for forms filed online with USCIS, using the electronic system prescribed by USCIS, will be an amount that is $50 lower than the fee prescribed in § 106.2”, and G-1055 prints that discounted result. The Asylum Program Fee is fixed by §106.2(c)(13) as “$600. For petitions: (i) Filed by a nonprofit as defined in § 106.1(f): No fee. (ii) Filed by a small employer as defined in § 106.1(f): $300. (iii) The online filing discount provided in § 106.1(g) does not apply to this fee”, with §106.1(f)(1) defining a small employer as “a firm or individual that has 25 or fewer full-time equivalent employees in the United States” — which is why the $300 row is the same for paper and online. Premium processing for an EB-1A petition is set by 8 CFR §106.4(b)(11), “Petition for classification under section 203(b)(1)(A) of the INA—$2,965”; G-1055 carries no premium-processing amount for this classification, and the premium-processing figure this page used to show appears 0 times in either document. Corrected on that basis: the I-140 filing fee and the premium-processing fee, whose former amounts neither document states. Left unchanged because they already match the source: the $300 Asylum Program Fee and the $1,015 paper subtotal. Still unconfirmed: the 6–12 month regular-processing range, which neither document states, and the $10,000–15,000 attorney-fee range, which is a private cost no USCIS fee schedule can carry. The 15-business-day premium figure is from USCIS Form I-907 page. Collection note: our automated fetcher cannot read the G-1055 PDF (direct request 403; headless render falls through to a download; the Internet Archive copy yields 0 characters of PDF text), so the machine-readable check runs against the 8 CFR part 106 links. Independent self-assessment, not legal advice; consult a licensed US immigration attorney.