USCIS FEE WAIVER

 $50 SERVICE FEE + $0 USCIS FEE = $50 TOTAL

To request a fee waiver if you are unable to pay the filing fees or biometric services fees for an application or petition that is eligible for a fee waiver. When you request a fee waiver, you must clearly demonstrate that you are unable to pay the fees.

Below is a list of applications and petitions U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will consider for a fee waiver and the conditions that must be met to be eligible for a fee waiver. Under current fee waiver regulations, USCIS can only approve fee waivers for certain forms or certain filings of a particular form type, when fee waiver requirements are met.

 

You may file this form to request a fee waiver for any of the following benefit requests or services:

  1. Biometric services fee, except for the biometric services fee required for a provisional unlawful presence waiver

  2. Form EOIR-29, Notice of Appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals from a Decision of an Immigration Officer;

  3. Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card;

  4. Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, but only if you are an applicant for E-2 CNMI investor nonimmigrant status under 8 CFR 214.2(e)(23);

  5. Form I-131, Application for Travel Document, but only if you are applying for humanitarian parole;

  6. Form I-191, Application for Advance Permission to Return to Unrelinquished Domicile;

  7. Form I-192, Application for Advance Permission to Enter as Nonimmigrant, but only if you are an applicant who is exempt from the public charge grounds of inadmissibility;

  8. Form I-193, Application for Waiver for Passport and/or Visa, but only if you are an applicant who is exempt from the public charge grounds of inadmissibility;

  9. Form I-290B, Notice of Appeal or Motion, but only if your underlying application was fee exempt, the filing fee was waived, or it was eligible for a fee waiver;

  10. Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. A fee waiver is only available if you are applying for lawful permanent resident status based on:

    1. A. Special Immigrant Status based on an approved Form I-360 as an Afghan or Iraqi Interpreter, or Afghan or Iraqi National employed by or on behalf of the U.S. Government;

    2. An adjustment provision that is exempt from the public charge grounds of inadmissibility of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) section 212(a)(4), such as the Cuban Adjustment Act, the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act, continuous residence in the United States since before January 1, 1972, (“Registry”), Asylum Status, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, or similar provisions;

  11. Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status, but only if you are an applicant with any benefit request as specified by INA section 245(l)(7) or an applicant for E-2 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) investor nonimmigrant status under 8 CFR 214.2(e)(23);

  12. Form I-601, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility, but only if you are an applicant who is exempt from the public charge grounds of inadmissibility of INA section 212(a)(4);

  13. Form I-694, Notice of Appeal of Decision Under Sections 245A or 210 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, if your underlying application or petition was fee exempt, the filing fee was waived, or was eligible for a fee waiver;

  14. Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence;

  15. Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, unless you are filing under category (c)(33), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA);

  16. Form I-817, Application for Family Unity Benefits;

  17. Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status; Draft for Childhood Arrivals (DACA);

  18. Form I-881, Application for Suspension of Deportation or Special Rule Cancellation of Removal;

  19. Form N-300, Application to File Declaration of Intention;

  20. Form N-336, Request for a Hearing on a Decision in Naturalization Proceedings;

  21. Form N-400, Application for Naturalization;

  22. Form N-600K, Application for Citizenship and Issuance of Certificate under Section 322.Production

  23. Form N-470, Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization Purposes;

  24. Form N-565, Application for Replacement of Naturalization/Citizenship Document;

  25. Form N-600, Application for Certification of Citizenship; and

  1. Battered spouse or child of a lawful permanent resident or U.S. citizen under INA section 240A(b)(2);02/10/2021

    You may also apply for a fee waiver for ANY application or petition that is related to status as a:

  2. Battered spouses of A, G, E-3, or H nonimmigrants (such as Forms I-485, I-601 and I-212);

    1. T nonimmigrant (such as Forms I-192, I-485, and I-601);

    2. Temporary Protected Status (such as Forms I-131, I-821 and I-601);

    3. U nonimmigrant (such as Forms I-192, I-485, and I-929); or

    4. VAWA self–petitioner (such as Forms I-485, I-601 and I-212).

**You may not file Form I-912 if you are requesting consideration DACA. There are no fee waivers for DACA.