The H-1B Visa Premium Processing has now started from 10th June as announced by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. This will now include all the outstanding H-1B cap petitions, it added.
The USCIS had
earlier announced in March that the H-1B Visa Premium Processing will be offered in 2 phases. This is for better
management of these petitions, it had added, as quoted by the Times of India.
The Phase-1 for premium processing had commenced on 1
April 2019. It included all the H-1B cap petitions
for FY 2020 that requested a status change. This included overseas students
with F-1 Visas working under OPT - Optional Training Program. It was for those
whom employers had sponsored for US Work Visas under the H-1B program.
The Phase-2 was scheduled to commence in June and has
accordingly stated from 10th June. From this date
sponsoring employers in the US can avail premium processing for a fee of
$1,410. This is if they have submitted H-1B petitions that did not involve a
status change. The applications are adjudicated in 15 days through the premium
processing.
Y-Axis Immigration Expert Vasanta Jaganatan elaborated on the process. The 15-day calculation begins after the
form requesting premium processing the I-907
is received by the USCIS, said Ms. Jaganatan. The USCIS has to either issue an
RFE - Request for Evidence or
approve the petition within days, she added.
If RFE is issued
by the USCIS, the 15-day calculation starts once it receives the data asked for
under the RFE said the Immigration Expert.
The FY 2020 will
permit successful H-1B Visa applicants to work in the US at the most from 1
October 2019. USCIS had received 2.01
lakh applications for the annual allocation of 85,000 Visas. 20,000 out of
these are set aside for Master’s quota for those with qualifications from US
Universities. This overflow necessitates section randomly through the lottery.
The premium
processing is a relief for the overseas
workers who will come from outside the US. They will have adequate time to
litigate or appeal against it prior to the 1 October start date if the
application is rejected.
The H-1B cap
applications for FY 2019 were filed in April 2018. The USICS had extremely
delayed the premium processing and opened it up in phases only from 28 January
2019. This resulted in several
challenges for sponsoring employers in the US.
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