5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor
Expand USCIS premium processing
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Printed page 146 5. Department of Homeland Security
“USCIS should strive to increase opportunities for premium processing, a benefit by which applicants can expedite their processing times.”
What has happened
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USCIS did not expand premium processing to new categories; it raised the price of the existing service, increasing premium processing fees to reflect inflation from June 2023 through June 2025. No rule or notice extending premium processing to additional benefit types was found.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
An ask to expand; the only premium-processing action in the window moves in the opposite direction.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- USCIS premium processing
- ID
- 341