{"id":153,"date":"2020-03-21T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=153"},"modified":"2020-09-01T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:56:21","slug":"uscis-suspends-premium-processing-for-all-i-129s-and-i-140s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/21\/uscis-suspends-premium-processing-for-all-i-129s-and-i-140s\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Suspends Premium Processing for all I-129s and I-140s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/working-united-states\/temporary-workers\/uscis-announces-temporary-suspension-premium-processing-all-i-129-and-i-140-petitions-due-coronavirus-pandemic\">USCIS announced at 2:19 PM on 3\/20\/2020 that Premium Processing<\/a>\u00a0services for I-129 (E-1, E-2, H-1B, H-2B, H-3, L-1A, L-1B, LZ, O-1, O-2, P-1, P-1S, P-2, P-2S, P-3, P-3S, Q-1, R-1, TN-1 and TN-2.) and I-140 (EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3) is suspended temporarily.\u00a0 Like many of us, USCIS service center operations have gone remote, so it is impossible for the agency to keep up with the demand for premium processing of applications.<span id=\"more-116\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In its announcement, USCIS indicates that it will attempt to adjudicate all petitions filed with the premium processing service before March 20, 2020 within the 15 -day time frame, but if that is not possible, it will refund premium processing fees.\u00a0 For applications not yet accepted, USCIS will accept the petition for regular processing, but reject the Premium Processing request and return the $1440 filing fee to petitioners.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/valentineabrown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valentine Brown<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/2020\/03\/21\/uscis-suspends-premium-processing-for-all-i-129s-and-i-140s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Immigration Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USCIS announced at 2:19 PM on 3\/20\/2020 that Premium Processing\u00a0services for I-129 (E-1, E-2, H-1B, H-2B, H-3, L-1A, L-1B, LZ, O-1, O-2, P-1, P-1S, P-2, P-2S, P-3, P-3S, Q-1, R-1, TN-1 and TN-2.) and I-140 (EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3) is suspended temporarily.\u00a0 Like many of us, USCIS service center operations have gone remote, so it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/21\/uscis-suspends-premium-processing-for-all-i-129s-and-i-140s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USCIS Suspends Premium Processing for all I-129s and I-140s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,78,166,165,61],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-law","tag-premium-processing","tag-uscis","tag-visas"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}