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This is some rather if you will, breaking news in the US Immigration space. Yeah the K-1 Fiancé Visa fee, the costs associated with the underlying petition, let me be clear we are not talking about Consular Processing here, we are talking about the underlying petition at the Department of Homeland Security, that fee is set to rise by our calculations 35% beginning April 1, 2024. 

So again, understand this is a pretty substantial increase in terms of the fees associated with bringing a foreign fiancé (e) - for most cases we deal with here in the office we are talking about a Thai fiancé(e) - yeah this is a rather substantial increase in the filing fee. Let's be clear, this is the government fees associated with the underlying petition to bring a foreign fiancé(e) to the United States for the purpose of getting married presumably within 90 days of arrival in the United States and then filing for what is called Adjustment of Status. 

In another video I am making contemporaneously with this one, we are also discussing the fact that the fees associated with Adjustment of Status are going up as well. So those who are looking at bringing a fiancé(e) to the United States and you are looking to do so rather imminently but maybe you haven't really gotten sort of everything round and round and you are kind of thinking about doing it but you haven't really gotten to it yet, this may be a good time to do it. I am not urging people who aren't ready to proceed but if you have already been thinking about it and you are trying to make up your mind, this may be a good reason or it may be a data point in your set of data points on making a final determination whether to pull that trigger and get going or if you are going to wait or maybe seek another type of Visa. As we are going to note in another video also made contemporaneously with this one, the fees associated with US Marriage Visas, the so-called CR-1 and IR-1 Visas, conditional resident as well as immediate relative visas, these are the Visas that are for immigrant spouses that provide Green Card status at entry, the fees associated with them are going up as well. 

So again, this is sort of an across the board fee increase for family-based visas, visas associated with bringing a family member to the United States in most of the cases we deal with from the Kingdom of Thailand.