USCIS Fee Rise on Hold gen112 by VisaCoach

USCIS Fee Rise on Hold gen112 by VisaCoach

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https://www.visacoach.com/uscis-fee-rise-on-hold/ Just before the October 2 implementation of the new USCIS price list, a group of opponents to the fee change were successful to convince a court to place a temporary injunction, temporarily halting the fee change. Good news and bad. Confusion abounds. Schedule Free Case Evaluation with Fred Wahl, the VisaCoach visit https://www.visacoach.com/schedule/ or Call - 1-800-806-3210 Subscribe to VisaCoach monthly newsletter https://www.visacoach.com/subscribe/ Fiancee or Spouse visa, Which one is right for you? https://www.visacoach.com/fiance-vs-spouse-which-is-better/ K1 Fiance Visa https://www.visacoach.com/how-to-bring-fiance-usa/ K1 Fiance Visa Timeline https://www.visacoach.com/k1-visa-timeline/ CR1 Spousal Visa https://www.visacoach.com/spouse-visa/ CR1 Spouse Visa Timeline https://www.visacoach.com/spouse-visa-timeline/ Green Card /Adjustment of Status https://www.visacoach.com/green-card/ Today's topic is "USCIS's Latest Fee Change: It's on hold. What to do, What to expect" Well, first of all "Procrastinators, YOU can rejoice" You still have time to avoid big increases in the cost of Naturalization to become a US Citizen as well as Work and travel authorizations for green card applicants. For months, actually probably years, USCIS has had a price increase in the works. Finally after much, much, deliberations, posting in the Federal Register, reviewing and replying to comments, delays due to Covid 19, challenges from Congress, back and forth with Congress, FINALLY they got their wish. A new price list was set to take effect on October 2. Most fees went up. Some down. Some like Naturalization and Work + Travel Authorizations when up A LOT !. The biggest bumps were a $445 increase from $725 to $1,170 for Naturalization, $545 increase from 0 for Work Authorization and $585 increase from 0 for Advance Parole. Other benefits that VisaCoach clients are concerned with changed little. Some a little up, some a little down. Once the fee change was announced, we jumped on it, letting all our clients know what was happening and helping those who would suffer the must from the fee increases to get their applications in on time. We were very, very busy for a month during the run up to October 2. Then, at the eleventh hour, just before October 2 came around, a group of opponents to the fee change were successful to convince a court to place a temporary injunction, temporarily halting the fee change. Well that's Good news and bad. Good news for procrastinators, who delayed but now can still submit under the old fee schedule. BAD news for applicants in general, as total confusion is the rule of the day. The injunction is in effect, but for HOW LONG? At any time it could be dropped. Maybe the all new fees will be implemented, maybe only some parts, maybe none. Who knows? But is does cause problems. First of all, the fees could change without notice at any time. We are asking our clients to reach out to us, when they are ON THE WAY to the post office to mail in their applications to confirm what the correct fee is on the day they submit. We can handle that with out clients, on a one by one personal case. Thats manageable. What I worry about are how well the clerks at USCIS will handle the processing of cases and acceptance of payments once the fees actually change. Officially, USCIS should check the postmark and mailing date shown on each package they receive. And then apply to the contents of the package, the fees and procedures that were in force on the day of mailing. Unfortunately that system does not work so well. The last time a major change occured, and this was on February 24 when the public charge rules came into effect. Hundreds of applications that had been shipped, on time, were rejected, due to clerical error. It took months for clients, who had legitimate proof of mailing to battle with USCIS to get their cases back on course. I am afraid in the week after the new fees take effect, that there will be even more such mistakes made at USCIS causing great inconvenience and unnnecessary delays to applicants.

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