There are three types of fees for an H-1B application: (1) Application (filing) Fee; (2) Attorney's Fee and (3) Other Fees.

(1) Application (filing) Fee

Below are the fees that must be paid before your H-1B petition package is filed with USCIS:

• Filing Fee: $320.

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• ACWIA Fee: $1,500 if the employer is employing 25 or more employees, OR $750 if the employer employs a total of no more than 25 full-time equivalent employees in the United States, including any affiliate or subsidiary.
• Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee. The H1-B Visa Reform Act also establishes a new Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee of $500 which must be paid by petitioners seeking a beneficiary's initial grant of H1-B or L nonimmigrant classification or those petitioners seeking to change a beneficiary's employer within these classifications. There are no exemptions from the $500 Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee This Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee is effective March 8, 2005.
• Premium Processing Fee: $1000. This fee is required if USCIS is required to process the H-1B petition within 15 days of the filing. For the H-1B applications in which the alien employee must receive the approval by a certain date, rush for the H-1B quota, or simply does not want to wait for 4-5 months to see the result, Premium Processing Service (PPS) is STRONGLY recommended.

Filling fee, ACWIA fee, Fraud Prevention and Detection fee and PPS feeshould be paid by SEPARATE company checks from the employer payable to "Department of Homeland Security". Personal checks from the individual beneficiary will not be accepted by the USCIS except for PPS. ACWIA Fee and Antifraud Fee must be paid by the employer/petitioner. Alien Employee may advance the ACWIA fee, however, the employee must secure a reimbursement from the employer/petitioner later.

In addition to above standrad fee for the principal H-1B application, there may be the H-4 Filing Fee: $300. This fee is required if the alien worker's foreign born family members need to change their status with the principal beneficiary.

(2) Attorney's Fee

Please also note that above fees do not include attorney's service fee. Please contact our office for the price quote.

(3) Other Fees

If the alien employee have a bachelor or master degree certificate that was not earned in the US, there will be degree evaluation fee by a third party. The fee will be different if it is based on work experience.  In addition, the attorney may charge small mailing fee for carrier delivery.