![]() The expansion of premium processing is among USCIS’s “trio of efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens to the overall legal immigration system.” The trio also includes reducing the time it takes to process backlogs through new internal time-cycle goals and improving access to employment authorization documents through streamlined employment authorization document processing. ![]() The January 12 announcement follows a string of similar announcements issued as part of a phased approach toward expanding premium processing that USCIS originally announced on March 29, 2022. As further detailed below, USCIS also expressed its intention to further expand premium processing eligibility over the first half of the year. The January 30 expansion encompasses previously excluded multinational executive and manager immigrant visa petitions and national interest waiver immigrant visa petitions. On January 12, 2023, USCIS announced the final phase of its premium processing service expansion, which will expand premium processing eligibility to all EB-1 and EB-2 Form I-140 petitions as of January 30, 2023. Additional expansions will follow in the coming months. Beginning January 30, 2023, USCIS will accept Form I-907 requests for premium processing for all pending and initial EB-1C (E13) multinational executive and manager petitions and EB-2 (E21) national interest waiver petitions. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will continue to roll out and finalize its expansion of premium processing eligibility for certain petitions and applications throughout the first half of 2023.
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