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INS PROPOSES INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION USER FEE
Since 1986 the INS has been required to collect a user fee from those entering the US. The fees thus collected are deposited in the Immigration User Fee Account (IUFA) and are used to provide immigration inspections, detention and removal of inadmissible aliens arriving and air and sea ports, asylum hearings, and other things. Every two years the INS must report to Congress on the status of the IUFA, detailing the money collected and expended in order to determine whether the fee should be increased. Before this report is submitted, the INS must allow a period of public review and comment. This period has just begun, and will run until April 17, 2000. During fiscal year 1999 the IUFA took in 2.6 million. The obligations to be paid for through the IUFA totaled 4.1 million, leaving a shortfall of over million and resulting in a substantial decrease in the funds available to carry over to the next year. For this reason, and because the INS expects for program costs to continue to rise, it has proposed an increase in the fee from to . The last time the fee was raised was in 1994, when it was increased from to .
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