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Premium Processing
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Law Offices of Jacqueline Lentini, LLC Blog
USCIS to Implement Premium Processing for Certain Previously Filed EB-1 and EB-2 Form I-140 Petitions
Petition Processing Updates U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is implementing premium processing for certain petitioners who have a pending Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, under the EB-1 and…
Immigration Blog
USCIS to Implement Premium Processing for Certain Pending EB-1, EB-2 Form I-140 Petitions
In March 2022, USCIS published a final rule expanding its premium processing service to include additional immigration petition and application types. This announcement was welcome news to businesses and foreign…
Immigration Blog
DHS on New Premium Processing
By Amy L. Peck, Michael H. Neifach, Otieno B. Ombok
The Department of Homeland Security set out the specifics about the upcoming new premium processing benefits in the Federal Register on March 30, 2022. The details, however, did not include…
Business Immigration Insights
USCIS To Expand Premium Processing Service Over Next Several Years
By Suzan Kern
A new rule, “Implementation of the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act,” published in the Federal Register on March 30, 2022, will open the popular USCIS “premium processing” service to new…
The Mobile Workforce
US Immigration Agency Announces Measures to Expedite Services and Decrease Pending Caseload
By Morgan Bailey, Kelcey L. Baker
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced several new measures including expanding premium processing to additional form types, providing relief to individuals waiting for work permits and setting agency-wide backlog…
ImmigrationProf Blog
USCIS Announces “Premium Processing” for a Premium Price
Yesterday U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would expand a "premium processing" program by which applicants who pay more receive faster processing of certain applications.According to the…
Herman Legal Group Blog
Premium Processing for H1B Visa
By Publisher
No matter whether you are a beneficiary or a sponsoring employer who wants to file an H-1B petition with USCIS, you certainly want to know when you can expect the…
The Insightful Immigration Blog
Requesting Premium Processing on a Downgraded I-140 Petition
By Cyrus Mehta
By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* In October 2020, USCIS’ decision to apply the Filing Dates, rather than the Final Action Dates, to employment-based I-485 adjustment of status applications,…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
USCIS Expands Premium Processing Services to Include E-3 Petitions for Australian Nationals in Specialty Occupations
On February 24, 2021, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it would expand premium processing services to include change of status or extension of status petitions for E-3…
Through The Immigration Lens
USCIS Premium Processing Fee Increase
As many of us started to think about weekend plans, this afternoon, USCIS promised us an interesting Monday with its latest announcement. Effective Monday, October 19, 2020, the premium processing…