Washington, June 4 -- At least 200,000 people have opted to pay the $100,000 H-1B visa application fee to ensure faster processing of their applications, US Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Senate hearing related to his department, Mullin stated that paying the additional fee allowed applicants to have their applications processed in roughly 15 days. "We had 286,000 applicants a year to date for the H-1B visas. Out of those, over 200,000 of them paid the $100,000 to be able to come in, because it allows us to process them in a little bit faster manner. In fact, when we do that, we're able to process them in about 15 days, because we're able to throw stuff out," Mullin said in response to a question...