H1B application rates are being raised so they can hire more people to evaluate the applications. One of the big current complaints you currently hear is the am

H1B application rates are being raised so they can hire more people to evaluate the applications. One of the big current complaints you currently hear is the amount of time it takes to process applications. Raising rates on applications to pay for quicker processing makes budgetary sense if hiring more works to get quicker processing is the goal. When you consider current processing time is normally 3-6 months ( http://faq.visapro.com/H1B-Visa-FAQ6.asp http://faq.visapro.com/H1B-Visa-FAQ6.asp ), maybe you can understand why you might want to speed that up.