{"id":261670,"date":"2017-10-05T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=261670"},"modified":"2017-10-05T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:00:07","slug":"premium-processing-now-available-petitioners-seeking-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/premium-processing-now-available-petitioners-seeking-h-1b-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium processing now available for all petitioners seeking H-1B visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing yesterday for all H-1B visa extension of stay petitions. Premium processing is now available for all types of H-1B petitions. <\/p>\n<p>H-1B visas provide skilled workers for a wide range of specialty occupations, including information technology, engineering, and mathematics. When a petitioner requests the agency\u2019s premium processing service, USCIS guarantees a 15-calendar day processing time. If that time is not met, the agency will refund the petitioner\u2019s premium processing service fee and continue with expedited processing of the application.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to today\u2019s resumption of premium processing for H-1B visa extension of stay petitions, USCIS had previously resumed premium processing for H-1B petitions subject to the annual cap, petitions filed on behalf of physicians under the Conrad 30 waiver program, as well as interested government agency waivers and certain H-1B petitions that are not subject to the cap.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how the H-1B visa program is being used, visit the Buy American, Hire American: Putting American Workers First page. This page provides data and information about the hiring practices of employers who use H-1B visas to hire foreign workers.  <\/p>\n<p>For more information on USCIS and its programs, please visit uscis.gov or follow us on Twitter (@uscis), YouTube (\/uscis), Facebook(\/uscis), and Instagram (@USCIS). <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing yesterday for all H-1B visa extension&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,18562,119,1589],"class_list":["post-261670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agency","tag-buy-american","tag-uscis","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}