§1802 Asylum fee

Summary

Any noncitizen who files for asylum must pay a fee when they submit the application. For fiscal year 2025 the fee will be the greater of $100 or an amount the Department of Homeland Security or the Attorney General sets by rule. For fiscal year 2026 and each year after, the fee equals the prior year’s fee plus an increase based on the July change in the Consumer Price Index, then rounded down to the next lowest multiple of $10. Each year, 50 percent of fees from cases handled by the Attorney General go to the Executive Office for Immigration Review and can be spent without extra approval. Fifty percent of fees from cases handled by DHS go to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account and can be spent without extra approval. Any fee money not sent to those two goes to the Treasury’s general fund. The fee cannot be waived or reduced.