USCIS Filing fee to increase from October 3, 2020.

July 31, 2020
×Close
Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced a final rule that adjusts fees for certain immigration and naturalization benefit requests to ensure U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recovers its costs of services. As per DHS, they are adjusting USCIS fees by a weighted average increase of 20% to help recover its operational costs. Current fees would leave the agency underfunded by about $1 billion per year. USCIS last updated its fee structure in December 2016 by a weighted average increase of 21%. Advance copy of a final rule which significantly alters the USCIS fee schedule by adjusting fees by a weighted average increase of 20 percent, adding new fees, establishing multiple fees for nonimmigrant worker petitions, and limiting the number of beneficiaries for certain forms. Table 1, which begins on page 13 of this advance copy, summarizes the fee changes. The rule will be published in the Federal Register on 8/3/20 and will be effective 60 days from the date of publication. A full list of changes and a complete table of final fees is listed below:                                                                                                            

Related News

VIEW ALL
USCIS Expands Credit Card Payment Option for Fees

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will now accept credit card payments for filing most of its forms. The new payment option is available for the 41 fee-based forms processed at USCIS Lockbox facilities. To pay by Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover, applicants will need to use Form […]

Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation.   The 5-4 ruling was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, […]

Jeff Sessions Wants to Impose Quotas on Immigration Judges.

USCIS has just announced that they are now extending the suspension of CAP subject H-1B petitions all the way until February 19, 2019.