ROOKE: DHS Lays Down New Rule That Could Upend Immigration Trick

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The Trump administration proposed a rule change on Monday that would allow U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to fully recover costs associated with immigrant applicants without using taxpayer subsidies.

The move focuses on adjusting fees for immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship using Form N-400, the naturalization application, and Form N-336, which requests a hearing in naturalization proceedings. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to significantly increase the fees for these applications and eliminate the previous policy of offering fee waivers and reduced-fee options for applicants. The only exception to the rule will be for qualifying U.S. military service members, who will continue to receive fee exemptions.

DHS says that increasing the fees and eliminating the fee waivers and reduced-fee options will allow USCIS to recover the full cost needed to process immigrant applications while improving “the integrity of the U.S. naturalization system.” (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter........

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