The processing time for I-140 EB-2 NIW  (National Interest Waiver) at USCIS, Nebraska Service Center has been drastically slowed down since the last year. We are a group of academic researchers who have filed under I-140 EB-2 NIW category and waiting for many unexpected months. At the time that we filed for I-140 EB-2 NIW, the processing time at Nebraska service center was between about 6-8.5 months but as our filing time period was passing/increasing, the processing time also was unpredictability changing, currently increased to almost a double for this category (11.5-17 months!)! We believe that this unpredictable processing time changing is absolutely devastating and frustrating for each applicant’s academic life planning. We are all waiting without knowing how long we need to wait as literally there is no actual processing time that we can rely on. On behalf of our group, we would like to ask for prompt consideration to expedite the case processing of EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) cases at Nebraska Service Center. Please support us and the research community to help and save the future of many academic researchers.