Effective September 11, 2018, premium processing will no longer be available for most H-1B petitions. And, to add insult to injury, the premium processing filing fee will increase to $1410.00 on October 1, 2018. So, once again, while much of the reporting on immigration rightly focuses on the cruel hardships this administration is imposing on undocumented people, the government is also continuing to attack lawful immigration and make legal immigrant and nonimmigrant processing harder and more expensive for law-abiding, U.S. citizen-employing U.S. businesses. Read more here.