On June 9, 2010, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a federal rule that would adjust fees for immigration benefit applications and petitions. The proposal would increase overall fees by an average of about 10 percent. Fees for the naturalization application would not increase.
The proposed fee structure would establish three new fees, including a fee for regional center designations under the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program, a fee for individuals seeking civil surgeon designation and a fee to recover USCIS’s cost of processing immigrant visas granted by the Department of State. The proposed fee structure also reduces fees for certain individual applications and petitions as a result of lower processing costs.
USCIS will be accepting formal comments on the proposed rule through www.regulations.gov from June 11to July 26, 2010.
For more information please visit the USCIS Web site at http://www.uscis.gov/ and the American Immigration Lawyers Association Web site at www.aila.org
Information for this article was obtained from the USCIS Web site at http://www.uscis.gov/ and the American Immigration Lawyers Association Web site at www.aila.org
