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USCIS fee-schedule change log

Every G-1055 edition change we detect, with the date we observed it and the date the fees on this site were re-verified by hand against it.

Edition verified against
10/07/26
Hand-verified 2026-10-08
Watcher status
Up to date
No newer edition detected
G-1055 editionObservedFees re-verifiedNote
10/07/26 current2026-10-082026-10-08Observed by hand on 2026-10-08 (the local watcher runs Mondays). Diffed against 10/01/26: every paper fee is unchanged, but USCIS added online prices for more I-129 classifications — E-3, H-3, P and Q $965 online ($1,015 paper), O $1,005 online ($1,055 paper), L $1,335 online ($1,385 paper). FormGuard now prints those online figures. This edition still prints the pre-2026-10-16 H.R. 1 amounts.
10/01/262026-10-052026-10-07Observed by the local fee watcher (issue #284). Re-verified by hand against the 10/01/26 schedule: every fee FormGuard prints is unchanged from 09/09/26. This edition still prints the pre-2026-10-16 H.R. 1 amounts ($560 initial EAD, $102 Annual Asylum Fee); the FY 2027 inflation increase (91 FR 62540, effective 2026-10-16) is scheduled separately as fee.upcoming.
09/09/262026-09-142026-09-16Observed by the local fee watcher (issue #173). Re-verified by hand against the 09/09/26 schedule: every fee FormGuard prints is unchanged from 05/29/26 — the edition moved, the amounts did not.
05/29/262026-07-112026-07-11Baseline entry: the fee-schedule edition this site was verified against when the change log was created. Not a detected change.
Machine-readable feed: /data/fee-history.json. Free to use with attribution.

Why this log exists

USCIS does not publish a running history of fee-schedule changes in a form you can subscribe to. A schedule change takes effect on a stated date, and a package received afterwards carrying the old fee is rejected outright — the money comes back, the wait does not.

A watcher checks the live G-1055 against the edition this site is verified against and opens a review the moment they diverge. Fees are then re-verified by hand before anything on this site changes: the PDF extracts with scrambled columns, and an automated parse reproduced only 2 of 12 known fees in testing, so auto-filling would put wrong numbers on a tool whose entire value is being right.

This log starts when it was created. Editions that predate it are deliberately absent rather than reconstructed from memory.

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