Employers of Foreign Workers to Pay Higher Visa Fees Under DHS Proposal

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Washington on July 22, 2019. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed increasing the fees paid by companies that employ immigrants in an effort to boost revenue for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), from around $4.5 billion a year to roughly $6.4 billion a year.

The proposed fee update (pdf) was announced by USCIS, the agency that handles legal immigration requests, on Jan. 3.