NEW FEES

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Friday that it will impose significant new fees on immigrants seeking to stay and work in the United States — including asylum seekers, Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports for CBS News. “The proposal would impose a $50 application fee for affirmative asylum applications and a $490 work permit fee for all asylum seekers. Fees for citizenship petitions would also increase from $750 to $1,170, and the amount could be higher for some immigrants.” The U.S. will join just three other countries — Iran, Fiji and Australia — that charge fees to asylum seekers.

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