DHS acknowledged that this proposed fee change diverges from the approach of past Administrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough DHS has historically limited the fees for Form N-400 \u2026 to fulfill previous administrations\u2019 priorities of encouraging naturalization \u2026 DHS no longer believes naturalization benefit requests should get lower fees at the potential expense of other immigration benefits,\u201d the proposed rule reads.<\/p>\n
Immigration experts expressed concerns that, should the proposed rule go into effect, it would increase the financial burden on people seeking U.S. citizenship, potentially putting naturalization out of reach for some immigrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor generations, the U.S. government deliberate[ly] kept citizenship application fees low in an effort to encourage the millions of people with green cards to apply,\u201d Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said in a post on X<\/a> on Monday. \u201cNo longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHS acknowledged that this proposed fee change diverges from the approach of past Administrations. \u201cAlthough DHS has historically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,7688,644,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-720168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}