What Are the USCIS Filing Fees in 2026?

How much do the most common USCIS forms cost in 2026?

The fee framework that took effect April 1, 2024 still governs 2026 filings, currently published in the May 29, 2026 edition of the Form G-1055 Fee Schedule. For family cases, the two forms everyone budgets around: I-130 (Petition for Alien Relative) runs $675 on paper or $625 online, and I-485 (Adjustment of Status) is $1,440 — biometrics are folded into that number now, not billed separately. Children under 14 filing alongside a parent pay a reduced $950 for the I-485, a detail I see missed constantly in family packages where someone budgets the adult rate for every applicant.

For naturalization, N-400 costs $760 on paper or $710 online, with a $380 reduced-fee option for households at or below 400% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. I-751 (removing conditions on a two-year green card) is $750. I-90 (replacing a green card) is $465 on paper or $415 online.

On the employment side, I-129 for an H-1B runs $780 ($460 for small employers with 25 or fewer full-time staff, and for nonprofits), and I-765 (work permit) is $520 on paper or $470 online — dropping to $260 when it's filed with or based on a pending I-485. That $260 concurrent rate is the one applicants most often forget to ask for, and it's real money: paying the standalone rate by mistake is a $260 unforced error.

Does filing online actually save meaningful money?

It saves $50 on most online-eligible forms — I-130, N-400, I-90, I-765 among them. It doesn't touch the I-485 (no online option for most applicants), the I-131, or fees fixed by statute. Fifty dollars won't change anyone's filing strategy on its own, but multiply it across a family package and it adds up.

The bigger, less advertised benefit of a myUSCIS account is the operational one: instant receipt notices, electronic evidence upload, live case-status tracking. I'd take that over the $50 discount most days. Regardless of channel, run every filing through the official calculator at uscis.gov/feecalculator first — I have seen more packages bounced for an incorrect payment amount than for almost any other clerical error, and USCIS does not negotiate on this. Wrong amount, full rejection, refiling from scratch.

What does a complete family green card filing actually cost?

A typical concurrent marriage-based filing inside the US in 2026 lands around $3,005 in total government fees: I-130 at $675, I-485 at $1,440, the concurrent-rate I-765 at $260, and the I-131 travel document at $630. Skip the optional I-765 and I-131 — some applicants genuinely don't need either right away — and the government total drops to $2,115.

Consular processing runs on a different fee track entirely: the State Department's IV application fee and the USCIS immigrant fee substitute for the I-485 charge. And two years after a conditional green card is issued through marriage, budget separately for the $750 I-751 — it's easy to forget when you're two years removed from the original filing and focused on other things.

What new fees did the 2025 reconciliation law (H.R. 1) add?

The July 2025 reconciliation law layered a set of statutory immigration fees on top of the standard USCIS schedule, and USCIS implemented them through an April 29, 2026 Federal Register rule. The one individuals feel most directly: an annual fee of roughly $100 (inflation-adjusted to $102 for FY 2026) for every year an asylum application stays pending, alongside new or increased statutory fees on several employment-based and humanitarian filings.

The same law created a $250 visa integrity fee, collected on the State Department side alongside nonimmigrant visa issuance. Frankly, the honest thing to say here is that these H.R. 1 figures are inflation-indexed and implementation has continued shifting through 2026 — I would not trust a fee table published even a few months ago, including tables on other sites that haven't been updated since the April rule. Check the current G-1055 and travel.state.gov before you write a check.

Who actually qualifies for a fee waiver or reduction?

Form I-912 fee waivers remain available in 2026 for many humanitarian filings and some family and naturalization cases, if you receive a means-tested benefit, sit at or below 150% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, or can document financial hardship. Worth knowing early: the I-485 filed on most family petitions is not waiver-eligible, but the N-400 is — a distinction that surprises a lot of people who assume waiver eligibility travels with financial need across every form.

The N-400's own built-in reduced fee ($380, for households at or below 400% of the poverty guidelines) is simpler than a waiver — no separate form, just the N-400 filed on paper with the reduced-fee request marked. Check each form's individual G-1055 entry before assuming anything is waiver-eligible; I've seen packages rejected specifically because someone attached a fee waiver request to a form that doesn't accept one.

USCIS Filing Fees for Common Forms — 2026

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