US visa fees increase, less than first proposed by Department of State

n late December 2021, the Department of State published a draft rule on the change of fees for public comment, and proposed a 50 per cent increase in processing fees for non-immigrant visas from US$160 to US$245.

At the time of the publication, the Department of State said that the increases were needed to fully recover the cost of providing services under the Cost of Service Model (CoSM).

However, in the Final Rule published today by the Department of State, it has confirmed much lower fee increases.

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