USCIS Increases Premium Processing Filing Fee

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will be increasing the filing fee for Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing, effective for all filings submitted on or after October 19, 2020.  Premium processing allows petitioners to pay an additional fee to have an immigration petition adjudicated by USCIS within 15 days.

For most filings the premium processing fee will be increasing from $1,440 to $2,500, including for H-1B, O-1, L-1, E-2 and employment-based immigrant petition filings. For petitioners filing Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker) requesting H-2B Temporary Non-Agricultural Worker or R-1 Nonimmigrant Religious Worker status, the premium processing fee will be increasing from $1,440 to $1,500. 

This change is in accordance with recently passed legislation that instructs USCIS to raise the fee for premium processing and expand it to cover new immigration categories.  At this time, USCIS has not yet expanded premium processing eligibility to additional immigration categories not currently eligible for premium processing.

For more information, please see the official announcement.