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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) amended the religious worker visa regulations in 2008. Under these new regulations, the following is a partial list of what must be met for USCIS to approve a religious worker nonimmigrant visa petition: The religious worker must have been a member of the sponsoring employer’s religious denomination for …
Effective July 20, 2009, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has resumed offering premium processing services for religious worker petitions (commonly known as R-1 visas) filed by petitioners who have successfully passed an on-site inspection. Under the premium processing program, for an extra $1,000 USCIS will generally process an application within 15 calendar days of …
