{"id":24212,"date":"2026-02-17T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/business-operations\/?p=24212"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:11:50","slug":"uscis-fee-update-payment-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/news\/uscis-fee-update-payment-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Fee Update &amp; Payment Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effective March 1, 2026, <strong>premium processing fees<\/strong> for standard petitions (H-1B, E-3, O-1, TN, I-140) received by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will increase to $2,965. Premium processing is optional and does not guarantee faster approval.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder, <strong>payments<\/strong> must be submitted with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/g-1450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Form G-1450<\/a> via the OnBase Secure File Exchange. Please coordinate with your unit\u2019s PCard holder and ensure the \u201cApplicant\/Petitioner\/Requestor\u201d field lists NC&#160;State University, as forms with employee names will be returned for correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective March 1, 2026, premium processing fees for standard petitions (H-1B, E-3, O-1, TN, I-140) received by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will increase to $2,965. Premium processing is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":24213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbo-news"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24225,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24212\/revisions\/24225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/core-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}