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USCIS announced it will resume premium processing on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 for all H-1B petitions.

If you had an H-1B petition filed on or before December 21, 2018, premium processing will be available for your H-1B petition. USCIS announced it will resume premium processing on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 for all H-1B petitions filed on or before December 21, 2018.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final rule amending regulations governing the H-1B visa program. The rule will go into effect on April 1, 2019.

2018年12月3日，国土安全部（DHS）公布了一份关于H1B抽签制度改革的草案，目前在收集公众评议阶段，截止时间是2019年1月2日。

这份关于H1B的抽签改革方案，国土安全部雄心勃勃地想在2019年的H1B申请季就投入使用。距离政府收集公众评议的截止时间还剩最后两天了，对于还在观望中的各位读者，宋和孟律师事务所在此和大家分享本所律师向政府提交的评议原文供参考（DHS’s Proposed Registration Requirement for H-1B Petitions and Its Potential Adverse Impact on U.S. Employers and Prospective H-1B Employees），希望大家也可以向政府提出自己的意见，尤其是指出在该草案中被忽视的改革对于整体处理时间的影响。

By Xiaojie (Marta) Meng, Alex Kim

On December 3, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a proposed regulation in the Federal Register that would impose an internet-based registration requirement for cap subject H-1B petitions.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing for all H-1B visa petitions subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 cap starting September 18^th, 2017. Read More