On Tuesday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will issue a Federal Register notice enforcing new fees for certain immigration benefit requests postmarked on or after July 22, 2025. Benefit requests submitted to the agency without the proper fees will be rejected.
These new fees are part of the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Bill. A portion of these new fees will be deposited into a U.S. Treasury account that primarily funds the operations of USCIS.
Please be aware that the Federal Register Notice does not include all the new fees mandated by the new bill. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will issue a future announcement regarding the implementation of fees that have not been addressed in Tuesday’s notice.
What are the new fees?
- A new fee of $100 applies to applicants filing Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal
- A new Annual Asylum Fee (AAF) of $100 (must be paid online) for all applicants with a pending Form I-589 for each calendar year their application remains pending.
- New fees apply to applicants filing Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, for asylum, parolee, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) categories. The categories are (a)(4), (a)(12), (c)(8), (c)(11), (c)(19), and (c)(34). The fees are:
- $550 for initial EAD applications and
- $275 for renewal or extension EAD applications.
- Exception:
- There is one exception to these fees. If an applicant requests an EAD after USCIS approves a new period of parole (re-parole) by filing Form I-131, Application for Travel Documents, Parole Documents, and Arrival/Departure Records, the fee will be $275;
- A new Special Immigrant Juvenile fee of $250 applies to any applicant who files a Form I-360, Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant, as a special immigrant juvenile; and
- Increases the maximum cost to register for TPS using Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status, from $50 to $500.