Merry Christmas? USCIS Filing Fees Set to Go Up During Holidays

On December 23, 2016, the new fee schedule for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) application and petition filing fees will go into effect.   Family-based petitions, employment-based petitions, and naturalization applications will all be affected.

For example, the I-130 Petition for an Alien Relative will go up from $420 to $535.  The I-129 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker will go up from $325 to $460.  And the N-400 Application for Naturalization will go up from $595 to $640.

Waiver applications will see some of the more dramatic increases, with I-601 waivers set to go up from $585 to $930 (though I-601A waivers will only go up to $630).

To view a complete schedule of fees, which includes the existing fees and the new fees that will take effect on December 23, please visit:

 https://www.uscis.gov/forms/our-fees