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New Schedule of Fees for U.S. Consular Services |
| 04-MAR-2005 |
Effective March 8, 2005
-- A surcharge of $12 to be added to current U.S. passport application fees: This fee will be used to increase border security by strengthening the security of the passport adjudication process and the physical passport itself. The surcharge will be used to support the issuance of a newly redesigned passport containing new security features. One of these is the addition of a biometric identifier. A chip will be embedded in the cover and will contain the same information that appears on the data page, including the bearer's picture as the biometric.
-- A surcharge of $45 to be added to the current fees for immigrant visas, making the new total fee $380: This surcharge will be used to support a multi-year effort to increase border security by strengthening the security of the immigrant visa adjudication process and the physical immigrant visa document itself. These changes include the developmental and operating costs of migrating the immigrant visa to a machine-readable format using a secure visa foil and implementation of digital photo and electronic fingerprint collection as required by recent legislative mandates.
The following changes to the Schedule of Fees for U.S. consular services are among those being implemented due to a recently concluded cost-of-service study:
-- A reduction in the fee charged for issuance of a transportation letter for Legal Permanent Resident Aliens (LPRA) to reenter the U.S. from abroad from $300 to $165;
-- An increase in the fee for adjudicating an application for Returning Resident status from $360 to $400.
Official wordings at ; US embassy New Delhi website |
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