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Premium Processing
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Business Immigration Insights
USCIS Almost Doubles Premium Processing Fee With Less Than One Business Day’s Notice to Employers
By Suzan Kern
In a move reflective of the agency’s current approach to rulemaking and policy changes, US Citizenship and Immigration Services has provided less than one business day’s notice that it is…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
USCIS to Expand Premium Processing Program, Increase Fee Rates
On October 1, 2020, President Donald Trump signed into law a stopgap spending measure to fund the U.S. government through December 11, 2020. The spending measure includes a provision titled…
Immigration Blog
USCIS Premium Processing Fees: Bad News, Good News
By Amy L. Peck, Michael H. Neifach
Premium processing fees are going up (the bad news), but premium processing will be available for more types of cases (the good news) according to changes included in the recently…
Buchanan Immigration Law
Congress Passes Emergency Bill that Expands USCIS Premium Processing and Increases Fees
On the evening of September 30, 2020, President Trump signed into law an appropriations bill that includes, among other provisions, an increase in premium processing fees and expansion of the…
Coronavirus Immigration Blog
Siskind Summary – Congress Passes Legislation Reforming Premium Processing Program and Raising Fees
By Greg Siskind
The Senate has passed HR 8337, the continuing resolution bill funding the government until December 11th. President Trump will sign this evening in order to avoid a government shutdown at…
Workforce Bulletin
September 2020 Immigration Alert
By Jang Hyuk Im, Jungmin Choi, Arit Dilip Butani
Updates to USCIS Policy on New Forms, Premium Processing, and Filing Fee Increases Take Effect on October 2, 2020 As previously reported in Epstein Becker Green’s August 2020 Immigration Alert,…
Through The Immigration Lens
USCIS to Implement Significant Fee Changes on October 2, 2020
By: Tieranny Cutler, Cheryl Gardner & Jason Burritt Seyfarth Synopsis: U.S. employers, applicants for immigration benefits, and other stakeholders should be aware of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)…
The Mobile Workforce
USCIS Lengthens Premium Processing Timeline and Implements Fee Increases, Among Other Adjustments
By Maximillian L. Del Rey, Kelcey L. Baker
USCIS announced last week the implementation of adjustments that will slow the processing of Premium Processing Service cases, as well as increase filing fees for the majority of requests as…
Workforce Bulletin
June 2020 Immigration Alert
By Jang Hyuk Im, Jungmin Choi, Arit Dilip Butani
USCIS Resumes Premium Processing USCIS has announced here that beginning the month of June 2020, it will again start accepting certain petitions for premium processing. Premium processing was indefinitely suspended…
Immigration Blog
USCIS to Resume Premium Processing in Phases
Premium processing will resume in stages according to USCIS. Cap-subject H-1B petitions will be included only in the last phase. June 1, 2020: USCIS will accept requests for premium processing…