The agency is backlogged and has become increasingly burdened. USCIS responds to the uptick in demand for foreign work permits and extends resources to the thousands of people being processed each month for humanitarian parole at the southern border.Even more of an incentive for illegal entry.
If an employer is sponsoring a foreign national worker, they're being hit twice, said Matthew Gross, partner and co-head of the Dallas office of BAL, a global corporate immigration law firm.
"That's shifting the cost burden to U.S. employers who are completely independent of that political issue on the border for simply filing petitions to legally sponsor work for international workers in areas that they need the talent," Gross said.
The cost of filing a petition for a nonimmigrant worker for an H1-B visa, or a work permit for a high-skilled foreign worker, is planned to jump 70% to $780, according to the federal agency. The corresponding registration processing fee will grow next year from $10 to $215.
The rate hike came as the integrity of the H1-B registration process was largely called into question. Reports of employers gaming the lottery system to better their prospective workers' chances by filing duplicate applications led to a change in the petition process.
I guess the Brandon immigration plan the evil MAGA morons killed a few weeks ago would have been better?
The fees for the form used to apply for permanent residence will increase by 26%, costing $1,440.
There's also a $50 discount for filing online.