My husbands H1B extention was filed under normal processing on sep 17 2017 and now its been more then 6 months and there is no status yet and it says online that case was received and that is all.
His i94 expired on oct 5th. we are lil worried now because on uscis website it says processing time for h1b extensions 3.5 months to 5.5 months?
ANY IDEA ON THIS DELAY and what we can do next, would it be good idea to upgrade to premium processing, im scared because i heard alot of denial stores for premium processing of h1b extentions?
What else we can do?
Our lawyer is trying to reach out to uscis to see why this case if delayed so long, any idea you guys might have, we are scared because of alot negativity around.
Your 240 days after i94 expiry are about to finish too.
I would strongly advise to first create a case status request and based on the answer, upgrade your request to premium.
Did you raise the ‘case status’ request with USCIS?
Everything will depend on what they say.
‘Admin prcoessing’ could be anything. We can’t really guess.
But, if it is admin processing for security check, then there is no fixed timeline even if it is premium processing application.
So, first check with USCIS case status request.
If your case is NOT stuck in security check, then you can upgrade your application to ‘premium’ and you should get result within 15 days.
My employer and his lawyer is working with USCIS to get the status on this. Ill have this in couple of days and accordingly will convert this to premium category.
My case has been upgraded to premium and USCIS website says they received it and also clock started from 6th April, while this is good as now ill have result before my 240 days expire however this also makes me nervous becoz i have heard and also see the tread of increasing no of RFE’s followed by declines for premium filed petitions.