H-1B Visa: US To Temporarily Suspend Special Payment Programme

New York: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that in order to clear a backlog of regular H-1B visa applications, it is suspending for six months a programme that allowed some companies to jump to the head of the queue for quicker processing of H-1B visas by paying a special fee. This is not a suspension of the H-1B visas, but only of the "Premium Processing", which allows companies to pay $1,125 to go to t...