In a new attempt to toughen its immigration policies, Donald Trump’s government would have released a plan that would increase the cost of citizenship applicationsin addition to eliminating exemptions or reductions in fees for people with limited resources.
CBS News was the medium that revealed Trump’s alleged plan and detailed that the increase could be up to US$570 in tariffs. application for immigrants seeking US citizenship.
The media points out that the proposal would have been prepared by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and that the increase would apply to both paper applications and online applications.
Paper applications, according to CBS, cost US$760; With this new increase, the process could rise to US$1,330.
The same applies to online applications, which typically cost US$710 and that could reach US$1,280 with the new norm.
CBS clarifies that this change will not come into effect immediately, since it is a regulatory proposal that must complete a federal government rulemaking process.
Furthermore, within 60 days, People will be able to express their opinion for or against the proposal.
Because?
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that this price increase seeks to “subsidize the processing of citizenship applications, especially in light of Trump’s efforts to scrutinize applicants more rigorously.”
“While DHS has historically capped fees for citizenship-related applications to meet prior administrations’ priorities of encouraging naturalization, DHS no longer considers naturalization applications should have lower fees at the expense of other immigration benefits“said the entity.
In addition, the DHS stated this Monday that another objective of this price increase is “periodically adjust rates to recover the full cost of their award“.