Category Archives: H-1B Visa

Premium Processing - now available for some I-140 Cases

USCIS has provided a fact sheet explaining the new process — briefly, some beneficiaries who are coming up on their sixth year  in H-1B status will be able to pay the $1000 premium processing fee and get a speedy adjudication of their I-140.
This is a step in the right direction!

USCIS Prepares for the Deluge…

… or at least, is trying to keep from getting swamped. Only one petition per beneficiary (by the same petitioner). Even so, with the current cap on filings, I think we’ll be surprised by the numbers of applications that will wind up in the California and Vermont Service Centers in early April. Here in Boston […]

New filing procedure for “cap exempt” H-1B petitions

I can only salute USCIS for its decision to set up a special filing location at the California Service Center; sometimes, no matter how you flag an application, the folks in the mail room miss the fact that the application has been properly filed.

For Direct Mail:
U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
California Service Center
ATTN: CAP EXEMPT […]

H-1B for Professional Workers


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