# H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account  
**Source document:** U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · p. 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/h-1b-nonimmigrant-petitioner-account  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 19.0 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 18.8 |
| FY2027 | request | 18.8 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account supports activities related to the processing of petitions for nonimmigrant workers in the H-1B visa classification. The H-1B visa program allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. USCIS receives five percent of the collections generated by these fees to fund USCIS's immigration benefit adjudication efforts, while the remaining 95 percent of ACWIA collections are deposited in accounts managed by the Department of Labor, which receives 55 percent and the National Science Foundation, which receives 40 percent.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services › H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*