We previously reported that on August 3, 2020, that USCIS had published a final rule that was to increase certain immigration and naturalization filing fees beginning October 2, 2020.
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center had filed suit against USCIS regarding the fee increases and on 29/09/2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered that the USCIS filing fee increases be stayed pending final adjudication of the matter. This also means that premium processing time limit will remain 15 calendar days for now, rather than 15 business days as had been proposed in the final rule.
This is particularly important now as the USCIS filing fees for I-485 and associated applications (EADs and Advance Parole application) were set to substantially increase on October 2, just as thousands of people will be filing their I-485 applications due to rapid forward movement in priority dates.
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Sincerely,
Luke Bowman
The Law offices of Luke Bowman