Over 200,000 people paid $100k H-1B visa fee to process applications faster

Over 200,000 people have opted to pay the $100,000 H-1B visa application fee in order to receive faster processing of their applications, said US Homeland Security Secretary Markeayne Mullin on Tuesday. Speaking at a Senate hearing related to his department, Mullin stated that paying the additional fee had allowed applicants to have the 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.