By:  LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ.

Beginning June 16, 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will accept requests for Premium Processing Services for I-140 petitions (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker).  The I-140 form is used to petition the USCIS for an immigrant visa based on employment.  The alien worker does not file this form.  Rather, the employer files the petition on behalf of the immigrant worker. 

According to the USCIS website, the Premium Processing Service for Form I-140 petitions is limited to applications that are filed on behalf of aliens: (i) whose sixth year will end within 60 days; (ii) who are only eligible for a further extension of H-1B nonimmigrant status under section 104(c) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (AC21); and (iii) who are ineligible to extend their H-1B status under section 106(a) of AC21.

Learn more here:  How to Use the Premium Processing Service.