U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to increase its fees for several immigration processes. Last week, USCIS announced via the Federal...
for several immigration processes.
This adjustment will be the first in almost seven years. In August 2020, USCIS proposed fee increases on some categories, but a northern California federal court stopped the plan. The last time fees went up was in December 2016. “USCIS cannot maintain adequate service levels with the effects of the budget cuts and its current level of spending without lasting impacts on operations,” the agency wrote in theThe new fee structure would allow the agency to hire almost 8,000 more agents to speed up the processing of new applications, USCIS wrote.The naturalization process to obtain U.S. citizenship —form N-400— would increase by 19%, from $640 to $760.
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