ATTENTION the adjustment of status fees are supposedly going up from $325 to $905 biometric fees from 70$ to80$ at least by june mid june maybe may..... I have found this out on USCIS website buried in press releases....... i will give you the link to the uscis roundtable discussion about this...
http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments...rnd_31jan07.pdfthis link will give you the intentons of USCIS fee restructuring proposal.... here is their plan
feb 1 2007 to april 1 discussion and entry into the federal registrar.... april 1 to june 1 ironing our implimentation of new fees.. after that enforcement of new fees..... now they have given no set time to start charging these higher fees nor any rock solid facts as to which fees will be raised all i know now is what fees listed below is what they want to raise.. its getting close to the target date of june and they have yet to release any final dates or facts as to which petitoins will be effected exactly but i do beleive u should know what could be coming down the line just in case it effects you...
here are more links to the fee restructuring fee proposal
http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/QABuilding1.pdf <--- this will give you the details to what petitions and how much the increase to back what i'm saying up......... all this information is super buried in the website and you have to dig into the documents to get the facts.. took me 45 min to figure out what they don't want you to know it seems....
Form
Petition Type
Current Fee Proposed Fee
I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker
$ 190 to $ 320
I-130 Petition for Alien Relative
$ 190 to $ 355
I-485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status
$ 325 to $ 905
I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker
$ 195 to $ 475
N-400 Application for Naturalization
$ 330 $ 595