200K opt to pay $100K for faster H1B visa

At least 200,000 people have opted to pay the $100,000 H-1B visa application fee to ensurre faster processing of their applications, US Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Senate hearing related to his department, Mullin stated that paying the additional fee allowed applicants to have their applications processed in roughly 15 days.

“We had 286,000 applicants a year to date for the H-1B visas. Out of those, over 200,000 of them paid the $100,000 to be able to come in, because it allows us to process them in a little bit faster manner.