§1802 Asylum Fee

Summary

People applying for asylum must pay a fee when they file. For fiscal year 2025 the fee will be whichever is higher: $100 or an amount set by the Department of Homeland Security or the Attorney General. Starting in fiscal year 2026 and each year after, the fee equals the prior year's fee plus an increase based on the change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for July compared with the July a year before, and then rounded down to the nearest $10. Each year, 50 percent of fees from applications filed with the Attorney General go to the Executive Office for Immigration Review and may be kept and spent without further approval. Fifty percent of fees from applications filed with the Secretary of Homeland Security go to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are put into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account, and may be kept and spent without further approval. Any fees not credited to those two places go to the Treasury’s general fund. The fee cannot be waived or reduced.