As has been promised the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) begins charging higher fees starting July 30, 2007.  New fees (even higher than projected earlier) are listed below.

A few examples of the new immigration fees for the most common forms: 

• I 90 Renew or replace your Permanent Resident Card (green card) -  $ 370
• I 102 Replace or receive an I-94 Nonimmigrant Arrival-Departure Record - $ 320
• I 129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker  - $ 320. Petitions for H-1B, H2B and L-1 workers must also include the supplemental fees and fraud prevention fees described on the form. Those fee amounts are unchanged.
• I 129F Fianceé Petition  - $ 455
• I 130 Relative Petition - $ 355
• I 485 Adjust status and become a permanent resident while in the U.S - free for refugees; if under 14 and filing with at least one parent - $600, without a parent - $930; older than 79 - $930; everyone else - $1010
• I 751 Remove conditions on your Permanent Resident status - $ 545 (filing + biometric) for you + $80 biometric fee for each dependent you include in your application
• I 765 Employment Authorization /Employment Authorization Document (EAD) -  $ 340
• I 400 Naturalization (to become U.S. citizen) - $675; through service in the U.S. armed forces - free
  

More details on www.uscis.gov.  To compare with the old immigration fee check the previous news. Note the price increase is even higher than promised earlier.

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