USCIS Issues Reminder on New Fees

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a reminder that its new fee schedule will take effect on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Applications or petitions postmarked or otherwise filed on or after this date must include the new fee or they will be rejected. As a practical matter, any applications filed after Friday, November 19 might be subject to the fee increases, depending on when the application is received.

USCIS published the new fee schedule in the Federal Register on September 24, 2010, following a review of public comments received after publication of the proposed rule this past summer. The new fee schedule increases application and petition fees by an average of about 10 percent but does not increase the naturalization application fee.

A table listing the old and new fees is available here as PDF.