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Premium Processing Service is an optional premium service offered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to individuals and/or employers filing Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker), Form I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker), Form I-539 (Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status- currently available to those applying for F, M or J status only) or Form ...
A Notice of Intent to Revoke (NOIR) is a communication sent by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to a petitioner about a previously approved petition, telling him or her that the USCIS intends to revoke the petition, along with the reasons for revocation, and giving the petitioner a fixed amount of time to respond. [1]
In summary, the provisions of AC21 did the following: They helped increase the efficiency of utilization both of the H-1B status for temporary skilled workers (i.e., "non-immigrant workers") acquired by filing Form I-129, as well as the employment-based immigrant categories for immigration (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3, acquired through Form I-140), thereby increasing the number of people who at a ...
If applying for H-1B1 change of status (form I-129 via USCIS), the fees are the same as the H-1B's, except an exempt $500 fraud prevention and detection fee. Also, Premium Processing is unavailable; If applying through Consular Processing, the employee only pays $190 as part of the DS-160 Non-Immigrant Visa application processing fee
While initially some applications for sponsorship were being approved in a matter of days, wait times are typically many months to over a year. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] As of June 2024, a year and a half into the program, USCIS was still processing applications filed in January 2023, the first month of the program.
Adjustment of status is submitted to USCIS via form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. If an immigrant visa number is available, the USCIS will allow "concurrent filing" : it will accept forms I-140 and I-485 submitted in the same package or will accept form I-485 even before the approval of the I-140.
A LCA petition approved by the United States Department of Labor must be submitted as part of the Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker) application for work authorization for H-1B, H-1B1, or E-3 status. [2] This is true both for people applying for their first H-1B work authorization and for people transferring to a different job.
The time within which the response to a RFE must be sent is indicated on the RFE. It generally varies between 30 and 90 days. If no response is received within the time indicated on the RFE, the USCIS will process the application without considering the additional evidence, which in most cases means a denial (because petitions where there was enough evidence to accept should not have RFEs in ...