New US immigration fees: How much will citizenship, asylum, visa and work permit cost?

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust certain application fees for immigration and naturalization benefits.

The new fees would allow you to more fully recover your operating costs, restore and maintain timely case processing, and prevent future case processing delays, USCIS explains.

USCIS gets approximately 96 percent of its funds from filing fees, not congressional appropriations.

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Following publication of the rulemaking notice in the Federal Register, a 60-day public comment period opens, ending March 6.

Until this final rule takes effect, the fees will not change and USCIS will finalize the fee schedule based on responses to those comments.

As USCIS already announced, this increase is carried out mainly to increase the immigration staff and the salaries of these employees.

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New immigration fees in the United States

Increases for procedures such as petitioning for relatives and naturalization range from $25 to $900.

• The new measures include a proposal to incorporate the costs for biometric services into the main benefit fee, thereby eliminating the separate biometric service fee.
• The naturalization process to become a US citizen, through Form N-400, could increase from $640 to $760. This $35 increase would incorporate biometric costs into the separate fee.

The current fee for naturalization is a total of $725, that is, $640 application fee plus $85 biometric services fee. USCIS explains that it proposes to combine the application fee with the biometric services fee to facilitate the filing process.

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It adds that the increase remains below the Consumer Price Index price estimate, which if applied would have increased fees to a total of $865.

• The new rule establishes separate fees for each nonimmigrant classification covered by Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker.

In addition, the proposed rule would establish a new asylum program fee surcharge of $600 that would be paid by employers filing Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, or Form I-140.

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• The work permit process, through Form I-765, would suffer an increase of $240. It would go from $410 to $650.
• This new rule would change the priority processing timeline from 15 calendar days to 15 business days.
• There would be lower fees for certain forms filed online.
• The proposed rule would not change the eligibility requirements for the fee waiver.
• The Department of Homeland Security (DSH) is proposing a filing fee of $215 per beneficiary for H-1B petitions, up from the current $10.
• Also, DHS is proposing to increase the EB-5 program fees consistent with the proposed fees for other applications for benefits.

(YO)

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