DHS Rule Adds Penalties for Failure to Pay New Annual Costs

New immigration filing fees created in a sweeping GOP tax and spending package will be codified in Department of Homeland Security regulations.

An interim final rule released Tuesday includes consequences for failure to pay a $100 annual asylum application fee as well as a $100 fee for each calendar year an asylum claim is pending. It also adds a $24 charge for I-94 arrival and departure records for noncitizens, as well as new limits on employment authorization for some immigrants.

The fees were part of a slate of new costs imposed on immigrant applicants in the Trump-backed law (H.R. 1) ...