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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Jan. 3, 2023 "The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed increasing application fees for employment-based visas and other immigration programs, in part to fund the adjudication of soaring numbers of asylum claims...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 01/04/2023 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 12/29/2021 "The Department of State (Department) proposes adjustments to the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services (Schedule of Fees) of the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA)...

CLINIC v. EOIR "The court stays the effective date of the final rule, Executive Office for Immigration Review; Fee Review, 85 Fed. Reg. 82,750 (Dec. 18, 2020), as to the following fees pending final adjudication of this action: (1) The $975 fee...

Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 244 / Friday, December 18, 2020 "On February 28, 2020, the Department of Justice (“the Department” or “DOJ”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM” or “proposed...

NWIRP v. USCIS "[T]he Court will GRANT Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. ... [and] because the Court concludes that Wolf acted without authority when he approved the Final Rule and later attempted to ratify that action and...

ILRC v. Wolf "For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction and a stay of the effective date of the Final Rule. Accordingly, 1. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. section 705 the Court STAYS implementation...

On Sept. 9, 2020 Angelo A. Paparelli , on behalf of ABIL , filed this amicus brief in ILRC v. Wolf. Angelo writes: "The brief attacks as unlawful under the Homeland Security Act any expenditures by USCIS from the Immigration Examinations Fee Account...

Public Citizen, Aug. 21, 2020 "A new U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule will unlawfully force immigrants seeking naturalization, asylum, employment authorization and humanitarian protections to pay high fees, according to a complaint...

Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 "This final rule adjusts certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). It also removes certain fee exemptions...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 01/24/2020 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces the reopening and extension of the public comment period for the proposed rule titled “U.S. Citizenship...

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 236 / Monday, December 9, 2019 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending the comment period for its November 14, 2019, notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM or ‘‘proposed rule’’...

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 220 / Thursday, November 14, 2019 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS...

A New Jersey appellate court affirmed a final judgment entered by the Division of Workers’ Compensation awarding fees to counsel for the surviving spouse of a worker who succumbed to an occupational disease based on the surviving spouse’s...

Gahagan v. USCIS - "The question presented is whether attorneys appearing pro se can recover fees under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). The district court held no. We affirm."