USCIS Proposes Increased Filing Fees

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS conducted a comprehensive biennial fee review and determined that current fees do not recover the full costs of providing adjudication and naturalization services.

DHS proposes to adjust USCIS fees by a weighted average increase of 21 percent, add new fees for certain benefit requests, establish multiple fees for petitions for nonimmigrant workers, and limit the number of beneficiaries on certain forms to ensure that USCIS has the resources it needs to provide adequate service to applicants and petitioners.

Adjustments to the fee schedule are necessary to recover the full operating costs associated with administering the nation’s immigration benefits system, safeguarding its integrity, and efficiently and fairly adjudicating immigration benefit requests, while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our country’s values.

USCIS also is proposing changes to certain other immigration benefit request requirements.

  Benefit Request                                                                          Current fee                    Proposed fee

I-90 Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card                           $455                          $415

I-102 Application for Replacement/Initial Nonimmigrant

Arrival-Departure Document                                                                   $445                            $ 490

I-129 Petition for a Nonimmigrant worker                                           $460                             N/A

I-129H1 I-129 H-1B—Named Beneficiaries                                         $460                            $560

I-129H2A I-129 H-2A—Named Beneficiaries                                      $460                           $860

I-129H2B I-129 H-2B—Named Beneficiaries                                      $460                            $725

I-129L Petition for L Nonimmigrant Worker                                     $460                            $815

I-129O Petition for O Nonimmigrant Worker                                     $460                           $715

I-129CW, I-129E&TN, and I-129MISCV Petition for a

CNMI-Only Nonimmigrant Transitional Worker;

Application for Nonimmigrant Worker: E and TN Classification;

 and Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker:

H-3, P, Q, or R Classification.                                                                $460                             $705

I-129H2A I-129 H-2A—Unnamed Beneficiaries                                 $460                              $425

I-129H2B I-129 H-2B—Unnamed Beneficiaries                                $460                               $395

I-129F Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)                                                     $535                              $520

I-130 Petition for Alien Relative                                                         $535                              $555

I-131 Application for Travel Document                                             $575                              $585

I-131 Travel Document for an individual age 16 or older              $135                               $145

I-131 I-131 Refugee Travel Document for

a child under the age of 16                                                                $105                              $115

I-131A Application for Carrier Documentation                              $575                                $1010

I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker                                    $700                               $545

I-191 Application for Relief Under Former

Section 212(c) of the Immigration

and Nationality Act (INA)                                                                 $930                               $800

I-192 Application for Advance Permission

to Enter as Nonimmigrant                                                            $930                                 $1415

I-193 Application for Waiver of Passport and/or Visa              $585                                  $2790

I-212 Application for Permission to Reapply for Admission

 into the U.S. After Deportation or Removal                             $930                                  $1040

I-290B Notice of Appeal or Motion                                           $675                                 $705

I-360 Petition for Amerasian Widow(er)

or Special Immigrant                                                                  $435                                    $455

I-485 Application to Register Permanent

 Residence or Adjust Status                                                     $750                                     $1120

I-526 Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur                  $3675                                 $4015

I-539 Application to Extend/

Change Nonimmigrant Status                                                 $370                                    $400

I-589 Application for Asylum and

for Withholding of Removal                                                    $0                                       $50

I-600/600A Petition to Classify Orphan

as an Immediate Relative/

Application for Advance Processing of

 an Orphan Petition                                                                $775                                       $810

I-600A/I-600 Supp. 3 Request for Action

on Approved Form I-600A/I-600                                        N/A                                           $405

I-601 Application for Waiver of Ground

of Excludability                                                                   $930                                           $985

I-601A Application for Provisional Unlawful

Presence Waiver                                                               $630                                           $960

I-612 Application for Waiver of the Foreign

Residence Requirement

(Under Section 212(e) of the INA, as Amended)      $930                                            $525

I-687 Application for Status as a Temporary

Resident under Section 245A of

 the Immigration and Nationality Act                          $1130                                            $1130

I-690 Application for Waiver of

Grounds of Inadmissibility                                             $715                                            $770

I-694 Notice of Appeal of Decision                               $890                                           $725

I-698 Application to Adjust Status From Temporary

 to Permanent Resident (

Under Section 245A of the INA)                                     $1670                                       $1615

I-751 Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence  $595                                       $760

I-765 Application for Employment Authorization      $410                                      $490

I-800/800A Petition to Classify Convention

Adoptee as an Immediate Relative/Application

 for Determination  of Suitability to Adopt

a Child from a Convention Country                                 $775                                      $810

I-800A Supp. 3 Request for Action

on Approved Form I-800A                                               $385                                     $405

I-817 Application for Family Unity Benefits                  $600                                      $590

I-821D Consideration of Deferred Action

for Childhood Arrivals (Renewal)                                    $0                                          $275

I-824 Application for Action on an Approved

 Application or Petition                                                  $465                                    $500

I-829 Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove

Conditions on Permanent Resident Status                     $3750                                     $3900

I-881 Application for Suspension of Deportation

or Special Rule Cancellation of Removal                    $570                                        $1800

I-910 Application for Civil Surgeon Designation       $785                                        $650

I-924 Application for Regional Center Designation

Under the Immigrant Investor Program                       $17,795                                 $17,795

I-924A Annual Certification of Regional Center        $3035                                    $4470

I-929 Petition for Qualifying Family Member

of a U-1 Nonimmigrant                                             $230                                         $1515

I-941 Application for Entrepreneur Parole               $1200                                       $1200

N-300 Application to File Declaration

 of Intention                                                               $270                                         $1320

N-336 Request for a Hearing on a

Decision in Naturalization Proceedings                      $700                                        $1755

N-400 Application for Naturalization                       $640                                         $1170

N-470 Application to Preserve Residence

 for Naturalization Purposes                                           $355                                       $1600

N-565 Application for Replacement

Naturalization/Citizenship Document                            $555                                       $545

N-600 Application for Certificate

of Citizenship                                                              $1170                                      $1015

N-600K Application for Citizenship and

 Issuance of Certificate Under Section 322                  $1170                                       $960

USCIS Immigrant Fee                                                  $220                                         $200

G-1041 Genealogy Index Search Request                    $65                                         $240

G-1041A Genealogy Records Request                         $65                                       $385

Biometric Services                                                         $85                                       $30

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