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GAO Report on Immigration Fees

By immigrationprof

“In fiscal year 2007, USCIS received 7.69 million applications, which generated $2.08 billion in fee collections. In fiscal year 2009, USCIS anticipates that fee collections will constitute $2.33 billion, or about 94 percent of the agency’s funding.”

For a lot more information, read the full report.

The report makes “seven recommendations to the Secretary of Homeland Security to improve the comprehensiveness of future user fee reviews; to analyze and use application volume projections for workload management; and to develop and implement procedures to validate contractor invoices for incoming mail services.”  It does not, however, contemplace fee reductions. 

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