USA Green Card Immigration Blog

Legitimate immigration to the United States is administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Revenue for USICS comes mainly by means of application and petition fees. There is an increase in the fees for all the other applicants and petitioners when the fees for certain individuals are waived. But those individuals who are unable to pay the filing or biometrics fees can apply for a fee waiver. A fee waiver request requires an apparent intimation on the condition of you being unable to pay the fees for the application or petition required.

There are certain guidelines that should be followed for supporting a fee waiver request when applying for Temporary Protected Status Fact Sheet. A written statement has to be submitted for the requisition of fees waiver. One should submit the waiver request form as an affidavit or declaration with a signed and dated written statement that states: “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.”

Your reasons for not being able to to pay the filing fee should also be stated in the request. There should be a clear indication in the written statement of all the assets such as investments, vehicles, homes, or other real estate, if any, owned, possessed or controlled by you or your dependents.

Monthly income of the applicant from all the sources possible should be acknowledged in the requisition of fee waiver. It must include income from your dependents as well. These details should be submitted for each of the three months aforementioned to the submission of the fee waiver request.

For each of the three months prior to the filing of the fee waiver request all indispensable expenditures are to be mentioned in the written statement. Any extraordinary expenses such as high medical bills should also be included.

If you are entitled to receive a federal or state means-tested public benefit like Medicaid, food and nutrition benefits [SNAP program], housing assistance, etc, or exceptions on humanitarian basis such as disability, age, and homelessness then additional information and evidence should be included.