# 2025-20622: Immigration Fees Inflate Under 'Big Beautiful Bill': Pay Up!

2025-20622, Inflation Adjustment to HR-1 Immigration Fees, is a Federal Register notice from Homeland Security Department, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published 2025-11-21, effective 2026-01-01 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20622
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20622
- Title: Inflation Adjustment to HR-1 Immigration Fees
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Homeland Security Department; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Citation: 90 FR 52693
- Published: 2025-11-21
- Effective: 2026-01-01
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Immigration Fees Inflate Under 'Big Beautiful Bill': Pay Up!

## Summary

Starting January 1, 2026, immigration fees under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR-1) will go up to keep pace with inflation. If you’re applying for immigration benefits after that date, you’ll need to pay the new fees or your application could be rejected. This change affects anyone filing immigration paperwork with USCIS and helps keep fees fair and current.

## Abstract

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is announcing inflationary adjustments to immigration-related fees administered by USCIS under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR-1) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. HR-1 mandates that USCIS adjust the HR-1 fees. This notice outlines the adjusted fees and their effective date.

## Effects PRIA read

- USCIS fees rise for filers Jan 1, 2026: cost, low. Starting January 1, 2026, USCIS will require the new HR-1 inflation-adjusted fees for any immigration benefit request postmarked on or after that date. If your application is postmarked on or after January 1, 2026 and you do not include the proper filing fee, USCIS will reject the application.
- Initial EAD fees increase by $10: cost, low. Initial Employment Authorization Document (EAD) fees for applicants filing based on a pending asylum application, parole, or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) increase from $550 to $560 effective January 1, 2026. That is a $10 increase per initial EAD application.
- Most EAD renewals rise $5; asylum renewals exempt: mixed, low. Certain EAD renewal or extension fees (parole renewals, TPS renewals, and EADs tied to re-parole) increase from $275 to $280, a $5 rise, effective January 1, 2026. Renewal or extension of employment authorization for asylum applicants remains $275 because HR-1 does not provide for inflationary adju…
- TPS application fee increases $10: cost, low. The Form I-821 fee for first-time Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applicants increases from $500 to $510, a $10 increase, effective January 1, 2026. The notice specifies the $30 biometric services fee is not included in that amount.
- Annual pending asylum fee rises $2: cost, low. The Annual Asylum Fee for each calendar year a pending asylum application remains pending increases from $100 to $102 effective January 1, 2026. The notice explains this fee is adjusted using CPI-U and rounded down to the nearest dollar for this item.
- Inflation math: 2.705% CPI-U and rounding rules: mixed, low. USCIS applied the CPI-U change from July 2024 (314.540) to July 2025 (323.048), a 2.705 percent increase, to calculate 2026 adjustments and then rounded most fees down to the next lowest multiple of $10 or to the nearest dollar where the statute requires. That 2.705% calculation is the basis for th…
- Parole and I-94 fees will be set later: mixed, low. USCIS says the fee required by HR-1 section 100004 for aliens paroled into the U.S. and the fee under section 100008 for submission of Form I-94 will be adjusted for inflation, but those adjustments will be announced in a subsequent Federal Register notice with implementation dates. Those specific…

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## Sources
- [2025-20622 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/21/2025-20622/inflation-adjustment-to-hr-1-immigration-fees)
- [2025-20622 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-21/pdf/2025-20622.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20622 (as of 2026-06-08).