USCIS announced in late June that it will resume Premium Processing
Services for Form I-140, the Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker.
Effective June 29, 2009, the federal agency started again accepting
premium processing requests for Forms I-140 for EB-1 Aliens with
Extraordinary Ability, EB-1 Outstanding Professors and Researchers,
EB-2 Members of Professions with Advanced Degrees or Exceptional
Ability that are not seeking a National Interest Waiver, EB-3
Professionals, EB-3 Skilled Workers, and EB-3 Workers other than
Skilled Workers and Professionals.
Please note that premium processing services are not available for
Forms I-140 for cases involving EB-1 Multinational Executives and
Managers and EB-2 Members of Professions with Advanced Degrees or
Exceptional Ability seeking a National Interest Waiver.
Under USCIS’s Premium Processing Service, the agency guarantees that it
will either issue an approval notice or, if applicable, a notice of
intent to deny, a request for evidence, or open an investigation for
fraud or misrepresentation within 15 calendar days for all petitioners
that provide a $1,000 processing fee along with their I-140 petition.
If this 15-day period is not met, the processing fee will be returned
to the petitioner and USCIS will continue to process the request as
part of the Premium Processing Service.
