United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will increase the premium processing fee for Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker) and Form I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers). The fee will increase from $1,225 to?$1,410, effective?October 1st, 2018.
USCIS states that the fee is increasing in accordance with the percentage change in inflation (14.92%) since it was last changed in 2010. The agency’s Chief Financial Officer Joseph Moore explains that the adjustment will allow USCIS to hire more staff and make improvements in technology “to administer various immigration benefit requests more effectively and efficiently.”
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