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Federal user fees : additional analyses and timely reviews could improve immigration and naturalization user fee design and USCIS operations : report to congressional requesters.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced an increase to its immigration and naturalization application fees by an average of 86 percent, effective July 2007, contributing to a surge in application volume that challenged the agency's pre-adjudicative operations. In July 2007,...

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Corporate Author:	United States. Government Accountability Office
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]
Subjects:	U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services > Appropriations and expenditures. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services > Rules and practice. Fees, Administrative > United States > Evaluation. User charges > Law and legislation > United States. Naturalization > United States. United States > Emigration and immigration > Costs.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS112031

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