Written by ASAP’s expert immigration lawyers · Updated
This notice from USCIS says that you must pay a new asylum annual fee of $100 within 30 days. You may receive this notice if you submitted an asylum application to USCIS more than a year ago, and your asylum application remains pending with USCIS.
To pay the fee, go to this USCIS website. Enter your A Number and the receipt number on the notice. Then, you can pay the fee online.
If you have NOT yet received a notice about the annual asylum fee and you applied for asylum at least a year ago, you can check the USCIS payment website. Enter your A number and the receipt number from your asylum application receipt notice, and the USCIS website should say if you can now pay the fee or if you need to continue to wait for a notice. If the website says to continue to wait for a notice, you can come back and check again another day. You can check the USCIS website weekly in case there are updates.
Learn more about the new fees here.
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