U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is suspending premium processing for all employment-based visa petitions and green card applicants.
The agency announced Friday the “immediate and temporary” suspension of the fast-track service for all Form I-129 and I-140 petitions until further notice in response to the new coronavirus.
Premium processing allows employers to pay an extra fee for their petitions to be serviced within 15 days. Last year, the average processing time for Form I-129—which is used for H-1B high-skilled guestworkers, intracompany transfer L visas, extraordinary ability O visas, and trade agreement TN visas, among others—was five months.
The agency said ...
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