Thursday, June 10, 2010

Fee Increase for Immigration Papers Planned

Sometime in the next few months some of the fees will be increased for citizenship applicants. And some will be reduced. Check out the whole story. - - Donna Poisl

By JULIA PRESTON

The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed an overall increase of about 10 percent in fees for immigration documents, but kept the fee for immigrants to become United States citizens unchanged.

Alejandro Mayorkas, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the fee increase was necessary because declining applications for documents in the past two years had lowered revenues and left his agency — which is 90 percent financed by fees — with a budget shortfall of about $200 million for the coming fiscal year.
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