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USCIS Raises Premium Processing Fee Effective November 29, 2019

· November 4, 2019

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is raising the premium processing fee for certain employment-based immigration petitions on November 29, 2019 [PDF version].

The fee increase will affect requests for premium processing of the Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, and Form I-140, Petition for Alien Worker. The premium processing fee, which is currently $1,410, will rise to $1,440. Requests for premium processing of Form I-129 and Form I-140 petitions filed on or after November 29, 2019, must be accompanied by the new fee.

We discuss premium processing for Form I-129 petitions [see article] and Form I-140 petitions [see article] on site. To learn more about the nonimmigrant and immigrant visa categories covered by these petitions, please see our website’s growing selections of articles on nonimmigrant work visas [see category] and immigrant employment visas [see category].

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