It took me and my husband about 10 months to get ours, but a colleague in the same situation as us got his in 6 months or so, using the expedited parallell proc

It took me and my husband about 10 months to get ours, but a colleague in the same situation as us got his in 6 months or so, using the expedited parallell process. I was on an L1-A visa, which gets you into the EB-1C green card preference category, couple that with coming from a non-capped country, and that's pretty much as fast as you can get one. Meanwhile, I was forced to fire one of my direct reports, because she didn't win the H1-B lottery that year, and couldn't get her student visa renewed, so she lost her work permit. And even if she had won the lottery, she would have been years away from a green card. It was quite the eye-opener for me to experience the vast differences depending on where you're from and what you do. Especially since getting a green card wasn't a goal for me. The company paid for it, and the weather is nice here, so whatever. And then having colleagues who desperately want one and need one, and have to suffer for years and the whims of luck. Ugh. :-/