{"id":2638,"date":"2019-07-19T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2019-07-19T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:53:21","slug":"form-courtesy-premium-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/form-courtesy-premium-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Form I-539 No Longer Eligible for &#8220;Courtesy&#8221; Premium Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/uscis-releases-revised-form-i539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous article<\/a>, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a revised Form I-539, Application to Extend\/Change Nonimmigrant Status, and a new Form I-539A, Supplemental Information for Application to Extend\/Change Nonimmigrant Status in March 2019. Starting on March 22, 2019, USCIS began to only accept the revised Form I-539 and began rejecting any Form I-539 or Form I-539A with an edition date of 12\/23\/16 or earlier.<\/p>\n<p>On March 1, 2019, USCIS had a teleconference with stakeholders to discuss the revised I-539 and I-539A forms. During the teleconference, USUCIS stated that it would no longer continue its prior practice of providing &#8220;courtesy&#8221; premium process service to I-539 applications filed concurrently with a qualifying I-129 petition. This is due to the fact that the revised Form I-539 now requires a new biometric requirement. As such, I-539 applications are now separated from the I-129 petitions and are no longer eligible for premium processing.<\/p>\n<p>I-539 biometrics generally take at least three weeks to be completed, while USCIS&#8217;s premium processing is a 15-day timeframe. Although attempts have been made to file an I-539 concurrently with an I-129 with premium processing after the biometrics are completed &#8211; in an attempt to get both the I-129 and I-539 adjudicated with premium processing &#8211; these have been unsuccessful, as USCIS is not obligated to adjudicate the I-129 and I-539 concurrently. It should be noted that I-539 applications may take substantially longer to process than the principal I-129 petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in a previous article, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a revised Form I-539, Application to Extend\/Change Nonimmigrant Status, and a new Form I-539A, Supplemental Information for Application to Extend\/Change Nonimmigrant Status in March 2019. Starting on March 22, 2019, USCIS began to only accept the revised Form I-539 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17,14,8,11,38,10],"tags":[90,126,77,26],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}