5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor · Needs Congress
Authorize a 10 percent across-the-board increase in all USCIS fees
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“Additionally, Congress should allow for a 10 percent across-the-board increase in all fees for all fee rules to account for the fact that new fee rules always lag behind budget requirements.”
What has happened
- Not started
Congress created a set of new immigration fees in Public Law 119-21 and gave them annual inflation adjustments tied to the Consumer Price Index — the mechanism DHS used on 2025-11-20 and 2025-11-21 to adjust the H.R.1 fees for FY2026. That is indexation of specific new fees, not the 10 percent across-the-board authority for all fee rules that this Quote asks for, and under the rule that progress is measured on this ask it leaves the Recommendation at not-started.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
A Requires-Congress ask about fee-setting authority, not about any particular fee.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- USCIS fee authority
- ID
- 340