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USCIS updates instructions for Form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver, to exclude new fees created by One Big Beautiful Bill Act

  1. Original Date Announced

    July 22, 2025

    USCIS updates the instructions for Form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver, as a result of the enactment of H.R.-1 (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) on July 4, 2025. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act creates new fees for initial applications for asylum, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and a new annual fee for pending asylum applications. It also creates new application fees for Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for asylum seekers, parolees, and TPS holders and makes some preexisting EAD renewal fees non-waivable. All new fees created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are non-waivable.

    This update only affects the instructions to Form I-912. The form itself remains unchanged from the prior version that was released on April 1, 2024. The instructions to Form I-912 were updated to state that fees required by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are non-waivable; to replace "noncitizen" with "alien"; and to reflect that the fee for a Petition for CNMI-Only Nonimmigrant Transitional Worker (Form I-129CW) filed for a CW-1 may be waivable under certain conditions.

    Trump 2.0 [#1931]

    2025.07.22 USCIS 2829-25 - Immigration Fees Required by HR-1 2025.07.22 USCIS Form I-912 - Request for Fee Waiver 2025.07.22 Instructions for USCIS Form I-912 - Request for Fee Waiver
  2. Effective Date

    July 22, 2025

Current Status

None

Original Trump Policy Status

Status: Final/Actual
Trump Administration Action: Forms and Information Collection
Subject Matter: Immigrant Visas Humanitarian
Agencies Affected: USCIS

Pre Trump-Era Policies

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