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Original Date Announced
July 18, 2025After the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("HR-1"), USCIS announced, in a notice, a series of new immigration fees to be collected for various adjudicatory activities and applications made by immigrants. These fees include applications for an Asylum Employment Authorization Document ("EAD"), a parolee EAD, a Temporary Protected Status EAD, a new Temporary Protected Status fee, a Special Immigrant Juvenile statute ("SIJs") Fee, an Annual Asylum Fee ("AAF"), and provides for fee adjustments pursuant to inflation.
No fee waivers are available for any of the new HR-1 fees, including the new SIJs fee (even though the statute did not explicitly say that no fee waiver is available for that fee).
USCIS announced that it will "begin collecting the filing fees for fiscal year 2025 for any immigration benefit requests postmarked on or after July 22, 2025," and that "requests postmarked on or after August 21, 2025, without the proper filing fee will be rejected."
Trump 2.0 [ID #1870]
2025.07.22 90 Fed. Reg. 34511 - USCIS Immigration Fees Required by HR-1 Reconciliation BillEffective Date
July 22, 2025Current Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: Final/ActualTrump Administration Actions: Agency Directive RuleSubject Matter: Asylum, Withholding and CAT Refugees TPS Immigrant Visas: Special Immigrant Minors
Documents
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Commentary
2025.07.24 NIJC Explainer on Immigration Fees Increases (July 2025)
National Immigration Justice Center explainer on what the new USCIS fees announced in this entry are and how they go beyond even what Congress required in H.R. 1.
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