U.S. proposes hiking fees for work-related immigration applications to fund asylum program

CBS News reports on the Biden administration’s proposal yesterday to increase fees for employment-based visas and other immigration programs, in part to fund the adjudication of asylum claims.

The proposed rule also would keep application fees for U.S. citizenship and humanitarian immigration benefits, such as asylum, close to or at current levels, as well as expand fee waivers for low-income immigrants and other populations, such as military veterans and victims of human trafficking and other serious crimes.

Here  is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services statement on the fee increases.

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