Check out USCIS website. Effective 7-30-07 I129-F filing fee will increase to $455!! For all of you that haven't filed, better hurry up.

This was just released!!!

Here's the link for all the fees:
http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments...edule052907.pdf

Adjustment of status is now $1010!!!!

crazy!!

I want vomitt! We we're planning on him moving to the US and getting married in August. The I-485 is going to be $1010!

Thanks for sharing the news, I'll have to start rethinking our plans.

EAD + AOS = $1350....I am going to start saving now

The $1050 included EAD and AP. Read the last paragraph of the last page.

Oops. That should have said The $1010 includes EAD and AP.

Based on this paragraph from the bottom of that list (if I'm reading it right), I don't think you'd add the EAD +AOS. It looks like the $1010 covers both.



Adjustment applications and ancillary benefits – The new application fee for an I-485 is a package fee that includes associated EAD and advance parole applications. Thus, if you file an I-485 with the fee listed above, while you will still need to submit applications for an EAD and advance parole, you will not need to pay a separate fee so long as your adjustment application is pending. However, if you filed your I-485 before this fee change, to apply for or renew your EAD or advance parole, you must file a new application with the new fee for those applications.

I copied this out of the PDF: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments...edule052907.pdf

So... the total for AOS+EAD+AP = $1010

Oops. Look I was responding when you were!

My bad
Still a huge chunk of change though.

Thanks for posting the clarification. I think I can breathe a little easier now.

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The AOS fee includes EAD and AP....

Wow! I can't believe it! So, in this $1010, is also biometrics, right? I am glad at least we don't have to pay the $455 for I-129f...Guess we'd better start saving, too! Thanks for posting this, good to know!

Biometrics is included.

Not really much of a difference from what it is now when you include all that stuff in one fee.

It would have been a big difference for us. We didn't apply for EAD or AP.

Yeah, no kidding. Ouch

I better start saving up now...

As long as it is taking USCIS to adjudicate some I485's, that's not as good an idea as when Marlene filed, John. You know what I mean?

With automatic EAD's and AP's, petitioners will be worry free if they need to travel. They also won't have to worry about employers picking at them regarding an expiring EAD.

I know it's a big fee increase, but honestly, everytime I read a post where someone says they aren't filing for interims because 'greencards come so quick these days', I get ill. Betting your ability to work and travel against the USCIS bureaucracy is pretty risky, and I've got the 17-months of AOS battlescars to prove it.

We didn't need for Marlene to work. The only thing we would have gained early with the EAD would have been a driver's license and she wasn't in a hurry to learn to drive. If it had taken longer, we might have applied for AP to visit her family, but it was a full year before we got around to doing that anyway.

Oh, yeah, I understand.

That situation, though, is entirely different than those folks who need to work but don't file for EAD because they hope they are gonna get lucky on the CSC/AOS wheel of fortune.

We share some of those same scars RJ. Ours are not as deep yet, We are 9 months and a week into AOS.

We now are faced with applying for EAD to keep Annie's Drivers license. We will do so before the increase.

That being said, I completely agree with the increase.