USCIS announced an expansion of the premium processing service for certain pending Form I-140 petitions. The agency will now allow applicants who previously filed under EB-1C multinational executive and manager and EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) categories to premium process their petitions. USCIS hopes that this change will help alleviate the lengthy processing delays in these immigrant visa categories.
The agency’s expansion will apply in the following phases:
While this change is favorable, the improvement is marginal. USCIS has not yet extended premium processing for initially filed Form I-140 petitions in the EB-1C and EB-2 categories. The premium processing fee will be $2,500, and the processing time will be 45 days instead of the typical 15 days available for other eligible categories.
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