{"id":6305,"date":"2020-08-03T18:12:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusreyeslaw.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2020-10-22T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:21:59","slug":"immigration-fee-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesusreyeslaw.com\/en\/immigration-fee-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Fee Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exaggerated price increase is announced for immigration services offered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure of the increase in the fees that have been announced this Friday, July 31st by the Department of Homeland Security of the United States, was justified so that the Immigration Agency USCIS, recovers the costs of the immigration services that it offers, since unlike other governmental agencies, it does not depend on the federal budget, but it is self-financed in almost its entirety with the fees that it charges; the measure will take effect from October 2nd of the current year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, I must inform you that even though the USCIS Immigration Agency has indicated a weighted increase in its fees of 21%, to recover its operational costs, it is still true that the increase in many of the fees and in the most important procedures required by the immigrant community, represents a hard blow to their pockets in the middle of a pandemic situation like the one we are living in, and to complete it, a $50 fee will be charged for the first time to the Asylum applicants, so in this sense we can also detail:<\/span><\/p>\n