News Update - October 11, 2008Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) Fee IncreasesIn order to implement program changes needed to improve the current system of tracking international students and exchange visitors the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) announced fee increases for certain visas under this program which will be effective October 27, 2008. Nonimmigrant students (F or M visas) will have to pay $200 and most exchange visitors (J visas) will pay $180. School certifications and site visits will also increase to $1,700 and $655, respectively. To view the recently updated list of SEVP approved schools go to:
† The author is a 26+ year practitioner of immigration law based in New York City. He was awarded the Sidney A. Levine prize for best legal writing at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1977 and has written extensively on immigration over the past years for the ethnic newspapers, World Journal, Sing Tao, Pakistan Calling, Muhasha and OCS. He has testified as an expert on immigration in civil court proceedings and was recognized by the Taiwan government in 1985 for his work protecting human rights. His article, "The Bush Temporary Worker Proposal and Comparative Pending Legislation: an Analysis" was Interpreter Releases' cover display article at the American Immigration Lawyers Association annual conference in 2004, and his victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression nationwide, Firstland International v. INS, successfully challenged INS' policy of over 40 years of revoking approved immigrant visa petitions under a nebulous standard of proof. Its value as precedent, however, was short-lived as it was specifically targeted by the Administration in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004. ‡ This article © 2008 Alan Lee, Esq.
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