{"id":16452,"date":"2018-12-28T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/?p=16452"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:35:47","slug":"h1b-processing-fees-and-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/2018\/12\/28\/h1b-processing-fees-and-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"H1b Processing Fees and Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 427px\" width=\"616\">\n<tfoot>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #e8c5d1\">\n<td><em><strong>Premium Processing is optional but necessary for most petitions<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>\u00a0Service<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Processing Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Fee<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OIP Processing<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">7-10 days<\/td>\n<td>$1200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dept. of Labor LCA<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">7 days<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0No fee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>USCIS Processing<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">6-9 months<\/td>\n<td>$960 first petition<\/p>\n<p>$460 -extension petition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>USCIS Premium Processing<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">15 days<\/td>\n<td>$1410<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Please note that OIP will request make all check requests.\u00a0 The funds will be charged to the account you provide in the H1b request form.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Electing USCIS Premium Processing service,\u00a0does not affect the time OIP needs to process the initial steps of the application. Regardless of the type of service requested, once USCIS approves the application, the OIP will forward the approval notice to the prospective employee. He\/she must apply for an H-1B visa at a US Embassy or Consulate that will enable the scholar to enter the US and commence employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium Processing is optional but necessary for most petitions \u00a0Service Processing Time Fee OIP Processing 7-10 days $1200 Dept. of Labor LCA 7 days \u00a0No fee USCIS Processing 6-9 months $960 first petition $460 -extension petition USCIS Premium Processing 15 days $1410 Please note that OIP will request make all check requests.\u00a0 The funds will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"171","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isss"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":171,"label":"ISSS"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"joughin","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/author\/joughin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":171,"name":"ISSS","slug":"isss","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":171,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":171,"category_count":2,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ISSS","category_nicename":"isss","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21843,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions\/21843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}