U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is currently implementing the next phase of the premium processing service expansion for certain petitioners with a pending Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers under the EB-1 and EB-2 classifications.
Similar to the first phase and second phase of this expansion, this phase only applies to certain Form I-140 petitions previously filed under the E13 multinational executive and manager classification and the E21 classification as a member of professions with advanced degrees or exceptional ability seeking a national interest waiver (NIW).
Petitioners wishing to request a premium processing upgrade must file Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service.
Starting September 15, 2022, we will accept Form I-907 requests for:
- E13 multinational executive and manager petitions received on or before January 1, 2022; and
- E21 NIW petitions received on or before February 1, 2022.
We will reject premium processing requests for these Form I-140 classifications if the receipt date is after the dates indicated above. USCIS has 45 days to take an adjudicative action on cases requesting premium processing for these newly included Form I-140 classifications. We will not accept new (initial) Form I-140 petitions with a premium processing request at this time.
On May 24, 2022, we published a new version of Form I-907 (PDF, 378.35 KB), dated 05/31/22. As of July 1, we no longer accept the older 09/30/20 edition of Form I-907.
As previously announced, we are expanding premium processing to additional form types as part of our efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens across the overall legal immigration system. As the premium processing expansion is being phased in, we will continue working toward making premium processing available for additional Form I-140 petitions, Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status and Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization as soon as operationally possible. USCIS will also adhere to the legislative requirement that the expansion of premium processing must not cause an increase in processing times for regular immigration benefit requests.
