House Republicans Propose $1,000 Fee To Apply For Asylum

Republicans connected nan House Judiciary Committee are proposing a first-of-its-kind interest for immigrants successful nan United States applying for asylum. Republicans are bringing it guardant arsenic an amendment to nan fund reconciliation package they want to walk earlier Memorial Day. 

“President Trump and House Republicans are committed to restoring migration integrity, enhancing nationalist security, and reining successful nan out-of-control administrative state,” nan committee wrote successful a post connected X. 

The projected fees include: 

• Asylum: $1,000

• Employment authorization, activity licence renewal aliases extension: $550
• Filing for lawful imperishable resident: $1,500 
• Immigration parole: $1,000
• Special migrant juvenile status: $500 
• Sponsoring an unaccompanied migrant child: $3,500 upfront, further $5,000 that tin beryllium reimbursed
• Appeal an migration judge decision: $900 
• Adjustment of migration position from removal: $1,500 

Most of nan fees would automatically summation each twelvemonth utilizing a look that includes that year’s ostentation rate. Read nan afloat 116-page connection here.

Can immigrants spend it?

Asylum seekers often suffice for nationalist benefits erstwhile they first get successful nan United States. However, a 2024 report released by nan Department of Health and Human Services recovered that from 2005 to 2019, asylum seekers successful nan state had a nett affirmative effect connected nan system of $123.8 billion.

Republicans do not request support from Democrats to walk nan package. They’re utilizing nan fund reconciliation process, which only requires a elemental mostly successful some chambers. 

The Judiciary Committee plans to see this connection astatine a proceeding connected Wednesday afternoon, April 30.

The fees are portion of a larger $60 cardinal package that judiciary Republicans are introducing for nan reconciliation bill. It would salary for astir 1,000 miles of fencing and barriers on nan border, migration removals and 10,000 caller staffers astatine ICE.