g1ant

$5000 in installments.

James Box

Also there is a Q&A document on the new fees:

http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrele...QsAs052907.pdf

Noorah101

From the link above, this bears repeating here, I believe:

Q. If an applicant files a Form I-485 to adjust status before the rule is effective, will he/she have to pay for future interim benefits?

A. Yes. An applicant for adjustment of status who applies before the fee rule becomes effective will continue to have to file separate applications with fees for employment and travel authorization. Those who file an adjustment of status application (Form I-485) after the new fee schedule is effective will not have to pay the additional fees for employment and travel authorization as these costs have been included in the new adjustment of status application fee.

So....the new I-485 fee INCLUDES the EAD and AP fee? Interesting!

Rene

psychobabbler1

Thanks for posting that. DH has been sitting on his N-400 app for over
6 months. I think this will spur him to get it done and sent off ASAP!

GarethMc

According to everyone including a good immigration lawyer, it won't make any difference in my situation since I don't meet any of the categories for "special treatment". It's "just" the FBI namecheck that is delaying things. On the last visit to the USCIS, they found my file and checked to make sure nothing had come in from the FBI and they sent off another request for a decision...

Rete

Doesn't matter if you are the spouse of a "native" born USC or a "naturalized" USC. The fee is the same.

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On May 29, 3:21 pm, GarethMc <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > Seems more like fines than fees.
>
> Ah, lovely. An 88% increase for my work permit, and a 79% increase for
> my advance parole. I've just applied for my fifth EAD and AP; they must
> love repeat business like mine. It's a great system where people can be
> delayed indefinitely for no apparent reason and you still charge them
> for the "privilege". Excuse for my cynicism, but I'm coming up to the
> 4-year anniversary of my AOS filing!
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://britishexpats.com

Hey, they have to keep up with inflation. The fees only increased by
25% per year in the past decade

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================================================== ============== IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
SUMMARY OF CHANGED FEES
effective July 14, 1994

Form No. Form name/description Fee
================================================== ==============I-17 Petition for Approval of School for
Attendance by Nonimmigrant Students $140
I-90 Application to Replace Alien Registration Card $75
I-102 Application for Replacement/Initial Nonimmigrant
Arrival Departure Document $65
I-129 Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker See below*
I-129F Petition for Alien Finance(e) $75
I-130 Petition for Alien Relative $80
I-131 Application for Travel Document $70
I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker $75
I-191 Application for Advance Permission to Return
to Unrelinquished Domicile $90
I-193 Application for Waiver of Passport and/or Visa $90
I-212 Application for Permission to Reapply for
Admission into the U.S. After Deportation
or Removal $95
I-360 Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special
Immigrant (except for a petition seeking
classification as Amerasian) $80
I-485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or
Adjust Status
--if 14 years of age or older $130
--if under 14 years of age $100
I-526 Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur $155
I-539 Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status $75
(plus $10 per coapplicant)
I-600 Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate
Relative $155
I-600A Application for Advance Processing of Orphan
Petition $155
I-601 Application for Waiver of Grounds of
Excludability $95
I-612 Application for Waiver of the Foreign Residence
Requirement $95
I-751 Petition to Remove the Condition on Residence $80
I-765 Application for Employment Authorization $70
I-817 Application for Voluntary Departure Under
Family Unity Program $80
N-300 Application to File Declaration of Intention $75
N-400 Application for Naturalization $95
N-470 Application to Preserve Residence for
Naturalization Purposes $115
N-565 Application for Replacement Naturalization/
Citizenship Document $65
N-600 Application for Certificate of Citizenship $100
N-643 Application for Certificate of Citizenship in
Behalf of an Adopted Child $80
N-644 Application for Posthumous Citizenship $80

mdyoung

When you look at those fee increases, $3.00 for gas doesn't look so bad. I wonder if Congress will call for an investigation of Big Government price gouging. LOL

Noorah101

Sorry to keep bringing up this point, but what if someone applying for AOS after the fee increase doesn't *WANT* AP? I guess you no longer have a choice of applying for AP or not...I mean, you still don't have to, but evidently your fee for AOS will be the same, whether you apply for AP or not. Same with EAD. Interesting.

Rene

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On May 29, 4:04 pm, James Box <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > Then start thinking mandamus
>
> Also there is a Q&A document on the new fees:
>
> http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrele...QsAs052907.pdf
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://britishexpats.com

Q. You've raised fees before with the promise of improving service.
What's the difference between now and then?

Short answer: Nothing, we always say that we'll improve service, and
then we don't. But hey, we just increase the fees because we CAN.

[email protected]

Question: They always say they they raise the fees because those fees
are their source of financing.
Obviously, they managed to finance their operations in 1994 based on
the fees posted above.

What kind of cost went up so dramatically?

ok, let's go with a multiple choice:

- We now pay for services that have nothing to do with USCIS (so-
called war against so-called terrorists)

- The pay is just getting better and better for upper management

- We really try to improve our service: Everything is computerized ;
so we can find out that somebody in Texas will have an extra 5 min
available 1 week from now. As such, to increase efficiencies, we'll
mail him from Missouri (well, we didn't realize that it takes more
than 5 min to mail the damm thing) an application to process, we'll
send it thru express mail (cost: $24). And so, at no point in time we
have unused labor (sight) (not to mention the cost of the useless
computerized system)

Just Jenney

That's not cynicism, that's reality:

The Washington Post : Immigration Agency Mired In Inefficiency

~ Jenney

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From: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedoc...dule052907.pdf
I 485 ; If 79 or older: $ 930


From:
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/usc...0045f3d6a1RCRD

In all fee waiver requests applicants are required to demonstrate an
"inability to pay." In determining "inability to pay," USCIS Officers
may consider the following situations and criteria regarding the
applicant:
- Whether the individual is elderly (age 65 and over, at the time the
fee request is submitted).



My guess is that a bunch of those "79 or older" are also "65 and
over". But that's just me

studio78

Thanks for the post. I'll have a week to spare before the new fees take effect.....saving about $275.