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USCIS, CBP, ICE Announce New ‘Inflationary Changes’ for Sure Charges – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers, U.S. Customs and Border Safety, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement introduced will increase in charges for sure advantages for Fiscal 12 months 2026.
USCIS Now Accepting Solely Digital Funds for Profit Requests, With Exceptions – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers is accepting funds solely by way of Pay.gov for profit requests filed electronically, with some exceptions.
USCIS Adjusts EB-5 Charges Underneath Courtroom Order – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers introduced changes in sure EB-5-related charges underneath a district court docket order.
TSA Launches Various ID Verification Program and Charge – The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is launching a “modernized different id verification program” at TSA checkpoints for these with out the required acceptable type of identification, corresponding to a REAL ID or passport.
E-Confirm Updates Coverage Underneath Supreme Courtroom Order Permitting Termination of 2023 Venezuela TPS Designation – E-Confirm launched an replace associated to work authorization, pursuant to a Supreme Courtroom order permitting quick termination of the 2023 Venezuela Non permanent Protected Standing designation.
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USCIS, CBP, ICE Announce New ‘Inflationary Changes’ for Sure Charges
On November 21, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) introduced will increase in charges for sure advantages as mandated by the “One Huge Lovely Invoice Act” (H.R. 1) for Fiscal 12 months (FY) 2026.
- USCIS’s discover lists the adjusted charges, efficient January 1, 2026. USCIS warned that “[a]ny immigration profit request postmarked on or after that date with out the correct submitting payment can be rejected.” For example, the payment for an preliminary asylum or preliminary parole applicant submitting Kind I-765, Employment Authorization Doc, is growing from $550 to $560. The discover explains USCIS’s methodology in calculating the payment will increase.
- CBP’s discover states that charges are growing for enrollment within the Digital Visa Replace System (from $30 to $30.75) and the Digital System for Journey Authorization (from $40 to $40.27), and for these paroled into the US (from $1,000 to $1,020).
- CBP mentioned that in accordance with H.R. 1, the prevailing payment for Kind I-94 Arrival/Departure Document purposes is not going to change for FY 2026. Accordingly, the overall payment to use for a CBP Kind I-94 at a land border port of entry for FY 2026 will proceed to be $30, consisting of the $6 land border payment and the $24 H.R. 1 payment. (CBP doesn’t assess a payment for these arriving at air or sea ports of entry as a result of they don’t seem to be required to submit an utility for a CBP Kind I-94.)
- ICE’s discover states that the adjusted payment quantity for people eliminated in absentia and inadmissible people arrested between ports of entry is growing from $5,000 to $5,130.
USCIS Now Accepting Solely Digital Funds for Profit Requests, With Exceptions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) launched a reminder that as of October 28, 2025, it’s accepting funds solely by way of Pay.gov for profit requests filed electronically, with some exceptions. For profit requests mailed to USCIS, it’ll solely settle for ACH debit transactions utilizing Kind G-1650, Authorization for ACH Transactions, or credit score, debit, or pay as you go card funds utilizing Kind G-1450, Authorization for Credit score Card Transactions.
These qualify for an exemption from the requirement to make use of an digital fee technique ought to mail the profit request, with the right payment fee and a accomplished and signed Kind G-1651, Exemption for Paper Charge Cost, to the acceptable lockbox. Practitioners advocate inserting the shape on prime of the packet (together with the duvet letter) so USCIS sees the shape first.
USCIS mentioned that these requesting an exemption should certify that digital fee and assortment strategies aren’t potential and so they meet a number of of the next necessities:
- They don’t have entry to banking providers or digital fee programs;
- Digital disbursement would trigger them undue hardship, as mentioned in 31 C.F.R. Half 208;
- Non-electronic transactions are mandatory or fascinating for nationwide safety or regulation enforcement causes; or
- There are different circumstances as decided by the Secretary of the Treasury, as mirrored in laws or different steering.
USCIS Adjusts EB-5 Charges Underneath Courtroom Order
On November 18, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) introduced changes to sure EB-5-related charges underneath a district court docket order in Moody v. Noem, issued November 12. The order stayed sure charges codified by the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) within the 2024 Charge Rule, which turned efficient April 1, 2024. USCIS famous that the court docket decided that the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 precluded DHS from adjusting EB-5 program charges within the 2024 Charge Rule. DHS and USCIS mentioned they “imagine the Courtroom’s resolution is inaccurate however are working to implement it.”
Efficient instantly, USCIS will settle for the charges that had been in impact till March 31, 2024, that are listed within the “Present Charge” schedule in USCIS’s announcement. USCIS mentioned that basically, petitioners and candidates “ought to pay charges in response to the ‘Present Charge’ schedule, not the upper ‘Earlier Charge’ schedule.” Nonetheless, for gadgets postmarked November 26, 2025, or earlier, USCIS may even settle for fee of the Earlier Charge. For gadgets postmarked after that date, USCIS will reject petitions or purposes which are accompanied by the Earlier Charge.
TSA Launches Various ID Verification Program and Charge
On November 20, 2025, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) introduced that it’s launching a “modernized different id verification program” at TSA checkpoints for these with out the required acceptable type of identification, corresponding to a REAL ID or passport.
For contributors within the optionally available program, TSA will test the traveler’s “biographic and/or biometric identification to confirm id and match the person to their Safe Flight watch checklist outcome” and can cost a nonrefundable $18 payment. TSA mentioned that assortment of the payment “will start when TSA proclaims that people might register for the modernized different id verification program on the TSA web site TSA.gov.” TSA famous that those that use the choice id verification program should be topic to further screening or expertise delays.
E-Confirm Updates Coverage Underneath Supreme Courtroom Order Permitting Termination of 2023 Venezuela TPS Designation
E-Confirm launched an replace on November 14, 2025, associated to work authorization, pursuant to a Supreme Courtroom order permitting quick termination of the 2023 Venezuela Non permanent Protected Standing (TPS) designation.
E-Confirm mentioned that for Varieties I-766, Employment Authorization Paperwork (EADs), the termination implies that:
- For beneficiaries of the 2021 designation for Venezuela TPS who would not have an EAD or Kind I-94, Arrival/Departure Document, with an October 2, 2026, expiration date, their TPS and employment authorization terminated on November 7, 2025. EADs with a class A12 or C19 and an expiration date of September 10, 2025; March 10, 2024; or September 9, 2022, issued underneath the 2021 TPS designation of Venezuela had been mechanically prolonged till November 7, 2025. Employers will need to have reverified TPS Venezuela beneficiaries who offered these EADs earlier than they began work on November 8, 2025.
- With a well timed filed EAD renewal utility, EADs with a class A12 or C19 and an expiration date of September 10, 2025, or April 2, 2025, for TPS beneficiaries who reregistered underneath the January 17, 2025 extension discover should be mechanically prolonged for as much as 540 days. Workers should current their Kind I-797, Discover of Motion, indicating that their Kind I-765, Software for Employment Authorization (EAD renewal) was acquired earlier than February 6, 2025.
