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INS Fees Return To Pre-January 24th Levels
Congress has repealed a Section of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that dramatically cut INS filing fees. Congress had removed the budget authorization for the INS surcharges to support refugee and asylum processing. Congress recently repealed that change and the INS has now announced in the Federal Register the immediate restoration of filing fees to their earlier levels. Earlier concerns that the INS would try and charge people who filed cases before the Federal Register announcement the difference between the reduced fee and the current fee appear to be unwarranted.
Effective February 27th, all fees must now be the higher level.
On a related note, as of this weekend, filing fee checks may be made out to either the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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