The Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) collects a fee from every passenger arriving at a port-of-entry in the United States aboard a commercial aircraft or commercial vessel (or having been "preinspected" at a place outside the United States prior to such arrival), except those individuals exempted under section 286(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) or under 8 CFR part 286. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 2002, Public Law 107-77, dated November 28, 2001, increased the fee from $6 to $7. This rule amends Service regulations in light of this fee change by removing the current reference to $6 in the regulations in favor of a reference to the fee amount prescribed in section 286(d) of the Act as amended. This technical change to the regulations is being taken so that it will be unnecessary for the Service to amend the text of its regulations each time the user immigration fee is statutorily changed in the future.
Read the full text on the Federal Register
This page is a structured index entry, not a substitute for reading the rule. This is not legal advice.