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USCIS Resumes Premium Processing for Certain Cap-Exempt H1B Petitions

25 Jul 2017
Posted at 14:20h in For Employers, For Individuals, H1B, NewsBrief, USCIS News, Worker by

As of Monday, July 24, 2017, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed accepting requests for premium processing for certain cap-exempt H1B petitions. As explained in the USCIS news release:

Premium processing will resume for petitions that may be exempt from the cap if the H1B petitioner is any one of the following.

  • An institution of higher education
  • A nonprofit related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education
  • A nonprofit research or governmental research organization

Premium processing also will resume for petitions that may be exempt if the beneficiary will be employed at a qualifying cap-exempt institution, organization, or entity.

The news release further notes that premium processing again will be made available for other types of H1B petitions “… as workloads permit.”

 

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