Immigration quotes are confusing on purpose often enough that it is worth separating the parts. An EB-1A has three bills. They go to three different places, and only one of them is ours.
All USCIS amounts below come from the fee schedule, Form G-1055, edition of 16 October 2026, and are what applies today. They change — that is why this page carries a verification date.
Bill one: the government
Form I-140, the immigrant petition itself: US$ 715 on paper, US$ 665 filed online.
The Asylum Program Fee, which is an additional fee on the I-140 and the one people get wrong. The schedule sets three amounts: US$ 600 for a regular petitioner, US$ 0 for a nonprofit, and US$ 300 for a small employer or a self-petitioner.
Read that last line again if you have been told self-petitioners are exempt. They are not. An EB-1A or NIW self-petition carries US$ 300 on top of the I-140.
Form I-485, adjustment of status, if you are adjusting inside the United States: US$ 1,440 on paper, US$ 1,390 online for applicants aged 14 and over.
Premium processing, optional: US$ 2,965 for an I-140 in the employment-based classifications, including E11, which is the EB-1A.
So the government side of a self-petitioned EB-1A starts at about US$ 965 for the petition alone, filed online, and reaches roughly US$ 2,355 if you adjust status at the same time. Add premium processing and it is about US$ 5,300.
Those are the base numbers. A spouse and children adjusting with you each carry their own I-485, and consular processing substitutes State Department fees for the I-485 instead.
Bill two: the attorney who signs
A licensed U.S. immigration attorney reviews the petition, signs the Form G-28 and becomes counsel of record before USCIS. That fee is theirs, quoted to you before anything is filed, and paid to them directly.
We quote it separately and do not hold it. A single blended number would mean either marking up someone else's professional fee or absorbing it quietly, and both of those end badly — for you if it is the first, for the work if it is the second.
Bill three: preparing the case
This is ours: reading the record against the criteria, building the evidentiary file, drafting the argument that connects one to the other. Our fee for the EB-1A is published on the pricing page rather than quoted after a call, and the full table is there with what each one includes.
What the numbers do not tell you
Two things worth saying plainly, because a cost page that only lists fees is half a page.
Premium processing buys speed, not safety. It commits USCIS to act inside the premium window. Acting can mean approving, issuing a Request for Evidence, or denying. A file that was not ready reaches its denial faster.
The cheapest version of this is not filing a petition that fails. The fees above are non-refundable, the attorney's time is spent, and a denial is part of your record that the next officer reads. Finding out that a record does not support a filing yet costs nothing at the start and costs all of the above at the end.
Where to look next
The EB-1A page has the fiche — who petitions, the standard and the two-step analysis. The pricing page has the complete table with the three costs separated. And if what you want to know is whether your record supports the filing at all, that is what the assessment reads, before any of these bills exist.