USCIS Announces Quality Processing New On the net-Filing Methods for Certain F-1 Pupils In search of Decide or STEM Opt Extensions

WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Expert services announced now the expansion of top quality processing for certain F-1 students trying to find Optional Useful Teaching (Decide) and F-1 college students trying to get science, technology, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) Decide extensions who have a pending Form I-765, Software for Work Authorization, and wish to ask for a premium processing up grade. 

Online filing of Variety I-907, Request for High quality Processing Provider, is now also accessible to F-1 pupils in these groups. USCIS proceeds to settle for the most recent paper model of this kind by mail. 

“The availability of high quality processing for particular F-1 students, in addition to the simplicity of on-line filing, will streamline the immigration working experience for a terrific a lot of global students,” explained USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou. “The ongoing enlargement of on the net filing is a priority for USCIS as we go on to develop operational efficiencies and boost obtain to the immigration system for stakeholders, candidates, petitioners, requestors, and people we serve.”  

High quality processing enlargement for specified F-1 pupils will manifest in phases, and college students requesting high quality processing ought to not file ahead of these dates: 

• Commencing March 6, USCIS will settle for Variety I-907 requests, filed possibly through paper sort or online, for certain F-1 students who presently have a pending Sort I-765, Software for Work Authorization, if they are filing underneath a single of the pursuing types: 
  • (c)(3)(A) – Pre-Completion OPT 
  • (c)(3)(B) – Put up-Completion Choose and 
  • (c)(3)(C) – 24-Month Extension of Decide for STEM learners. 
• Beginning April 3, USCIS will accept Form I-907 requests, filed either by way of paper sort or online, for F-1 learners in the over groups when filed together with Kind I-765. 

USCIS will reject premium processing requests for a pending Sort I-765 if obtained just before March 6, and will reject any top quality processing ask for for an preliminary or concurrently submitted Kind I-765 that is obtained ahead of April 3. 

To file Type I-907 on-line, an applicant have to first produce a USCIS on line account, which supplies a practical and secure method to post varieties, pay back charges, and monitor the status of any pending 

USCIS immigration request all over the adjudication approach. There is no price to set up a USCIS online account, which gives a selection of capabilities, together with the skill to connect with USCIS by way of a secure inbox and answer to Requests for Evidence on the net.  

Applicants who previously filed a paper Variety I-765 and wish to file Type I-907 on line to ask for quality processing need to reference the USCIS Account Obtain See they received for the On-line Access Code and specifics on how to hyperlink their paper-submitted cases to their on line account, or they will not be ready to file Variety I-907 on-line and will want file a paper Sort I-907 with the Chicago lockbox. 

As beforehand declared, the expansion of premium processing is aspect of USCIS’ attempts to boost performance and lower burdens to the total immigration procedure, and is being  implemented in a phased strategy.  

The addition of on the net filing for Form I-907 delivers the whole selection of forms out there for on-line filing to 16. The Types Offered to File On the net site has hyperlinks to file all of these forms. USCIS carries on to acknowledge the most recent paper versions of all varieties by mail. More than 1.8 million purposes, petitions and requests had been submitted on-line in FY 2022, a 53% raise from the 1.2 million submitted in FY 2021.