{"id":283,"date":"2011-02-02T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-05-03T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:09:46","slug":"how-to-pay-h-1b-filing-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/2011\/02\/how-to-pay-h-1b-filing-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pay H-1B Filing Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Petitioners are often confused by the complicated H-1B filing fees which are outlined below:<\/p>\n

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  1. If the employer has one of the following situations, it needs to pay filing fee of $325.00, plus $500.00 Fraud Prevention and Detection fee for an initial H-1B petition:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. The employer is an institution of higher education, or a nonprofit organization or entity related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education;<\/li>\n
      2. The employer is a nonprofit research organization or a governmental research organization;<\/li>\n
      3. The second or subsequent H-1B extension petition that have filed for the same alien;<\/li>\n
      4. An amended petition that does not contain any request for extensions of stay;<\/li>\n
      5. The purpose of filing the petition is to correct a USCIS error;<\/li>\n
      6. The employer is a primary or secondary education institution; or<\/li>\n
      7. The employer is a nonprofit entity that engages in an established curriculum-related clinical training of students registered at such an institution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. If the employer does not fit any criteria listed above, it needs to submit filing fee of $325.00, plus $500.00 Fraud Prevention and Detection fee for an initial H-1B petition, plus $750.00 if the employer has a total of 25 or less full-time equivalent employees in the U.S. (including any affiliate or subsidiary of the employer) or $1,500.00 if the employer has a total of more than 25 full-time equivalent employees in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Starting from August 14, 2010 to September 30, 2014, if the petitioner employs 50 or more individuals in the U.S., and more than 50% of those employees in H-1B or L nonimmigrant status, it must submit additional $2,000.00.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            1. The above rule applies to petitioners filing H-1B petition to employ an H-1B1 Free Trade Nonimmigrant from Chile or Singapore.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Petitioners are often confused by the complicated H-1B filing fees which are outlined below: If the employer has one of the following situations, it needs to pay filing fee of $325.00, plus $500.00 Fraud Prevention and Detection fee for an initial H-1B petition: The employer is an institution of higher education, or a nonprofit organization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}