Would you be willing to pay extra for faster processing?

[Boiler 45,525]

It's not an available option to have an expedited processing mechanism for family visas because it would violate the 14th amendment protection to equal protection of law. Offering individuals better service from a mechanism developed within the framework of federal law on the basis of money would in effect discriminate on the basis of financial status, hence it can't be done.

It's done for employment visas because the implication for corporate entities is rather different, though in reality, what happens is that each expedited H1-B causes all the others to shuffle down the priority list rather than simply fast-track them via a more efficient processing stream.

If expedited processing were available for K and CR/IR visas, the same thing would happen - meaning that for each person paying more, the rest would slow down.

There, I bet not a single person wanted to know that.

Nothing to do with protection and anyway we are talking about Aliens.

The whole legal system discriminates against those with money and those without anyway.

And that is not how H Visa applications work, everybody gets the same priority date, the fee just gets you a faster response, you can not jump the queue in that respect by paying extra.

[Turboguy 6]

Right now I would pay $ 5000 for normal processing times. Normal processing times would have me buying her ticket to come here now. I am starting to envy my fiancees corrupt government. At least there paying someone would get the wheels greased.

Yes, if there was an option to pay $ 5000 for a two week approval time or $ 1000.00 for a 2 month time I would not have hesitated.

[Andy 2]

Nothing to do with protection and anyway we are talking about Aliens.

The whole legal system discriminates against those with money and those without anyway.

And that is not how H Visa applications work, everybody gets the same priority date, the fee just gets you a faster response, you can not jump the queue in that respect by paying extra.

Cynicism aside, I am right, and it's actually US Citizens, not aliens involved in that concern, since at all times in the various family processes, the petitioner 'owns' the case. My comment was drawn directly from analysis written at the time premium processing was under discussion when the question about whether it could be applied to family cases (which had extraordinary backlogs at the time) was raised.

By the way, if the extra fee didn't get any faster processing in a H visa case, no-one would pay it. It's a fast-track to supposedly assured turn-around for petition adjudication in a fraction of the time adjudication would take place otherwise. If it didn't result in queue jumping that process, there would be no purpose to it.

[Niels Bohr 72]

I would definitely do it. My wife is worth more than money can afford. A loan from the bank is nothing.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

There is an expedited process for individual visa applicants who can pay $500,000. Check it out.

[Andy 2]

There is an expedited process for individual visa applicants who can pay $500,000. Check it out.

That's the investor program - it's business related and because it relates to alien applicants and has no USC petitioner, there are no constraints in terms of being able to offer access to the US for money.

[tmma 467]

Yes for the K-1 approval at USCIS..... about $1000-$2000....

We had DORA for AOS, and because of that our AOS processing was fast, so no complaints about that only in that they should start a DORA type system nationwide.