Green Card Holders Face 75% Citizenship Fee Increase Under New DHS Proposal

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Source: Newsweek

Published Jun 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM EDT updated Jun 22, 2026 at 05:01 PM EDT


The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed raising fees for citizenship applications by about 75 percent, while eliminating fee waivers and reduced rates for most applicants, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.

The rule, published for public comment Monday, marks a major shift in federal policy by aligning naturalization fees with what DHS calls the “full costs” of adjudication, including expanded screening and vetting requirements mandated by recent executive orders.

The changes would affect hundreds of thousands of lawful permanent residents each year, potentially delaying naturalization for lower‑income immigrants and shifting more of USCIS’s operating costs directly onto applicants.

"The proposal represents a significant shift in the cost of becoming a U.S. citizen," Adam Klein, a former Department of Homeland Security official and co-founder of Globali.ai, told Newsweek. "While USCIS is largely a fee-funded agency and must recover its operational costs, substantially increasing naturalization fees risks turning citizenship into a benefit that is less accessible to those of modest means.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/naturalization-fee-increase-dhs-proposed-rule-12104025

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Link to Federal Register draft RULE (PDF) - https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-12542.pdf

[Bayard]

1. Creating more people to deport

[ananda]

5. My thought exactly.

They don't want them here.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. They were going to do this in October

2020 and lost their case.

[Martin68]

3. Racist measures like this prove the Trump regime is totally anti-immigration, not just trying to reduce the level of

paperless immigrants.

[ananda]

6. This reminds me of Mussolini's Italy, so much.

Except the Italians were more intelligent and competent.

[Martin68]

7. Actually, the Mussolini regime made many stupid mistakes in addition to their assistance with the Nazis extermination

program.

[ananda]

8. They were very effective at normalizing fascism for many people...

in other free countries.

Our clowns are Mussolini regime wannabes, with Hitler as their
guide for getting it established and set into place.

Whether we like it or not, fascism has been the goal
since Roosevelt. It finally started taking stronger hold
when Reagan took office and we lost first the media
and then the insatiably greedy business interests that
have wanted this set in place for their own ends.

[FakeNoose]

4. So ... everyone who pays the fee is automatically a US citizen, am I right?

The last I heard, there were citizenship classes and really difficult tests that they had to pass.
Is all that being dismantled now, and the only thing they do is pay the fee?

We have questions ....