The fee for several immigration benefits will increase starting in January. That’s according to a new notice issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
These new fees come from a provision of President Donald Trump's spending bill, the massive spending package passed by Congress earlier this year.
This latest notice will make small increases to eight applications — including work permits for asylum seekers, and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. The fee to apply for TPS status will also go up from $500 to $510, among other changes.
A policy shift from earlier this year made it so that asylum seekers had to pay to apply for that protection for the first time. That increase is currently held back by court order.
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In a weeklong series, KJZZ looks at Arizona’s connection to the Japanese internment policies that were instituted following Pearl Harbor, and how it ties into the broader story of racialized public policy. Gabriel Pietrorazio joined The Show for a closer look at the series. -
That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. -
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office announced this week that it’s joining certain violent-crime task forces led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The same deal with the Phoenix Police Department was canceled more than a decade ago. -
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941.
