United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has set the new fees for records

Question

The new fee schedule has been posted in the Federal Register. Not as bad as the original proposed rates but still pretty steep. The post is at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/03/2020-16389/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration

Here is the excerpt from the table showing the genealogy fees:

Table 1—Non-Statutory IEFA Immigration Benefit Request Fees

Immigration benefit request	Current fee $	Final fee $	Change ($)	Percentage change
G-1041 Genealogy Index Search Request (online filing)	65	160	95	146
G-1041 Genealogy Index Search Request (paper filing)	65	170	105	162
G-1041A Genealogy Records Request (online filing)	65	255	190	292
G-1041A Genealogy Records Request (paper filing)	65	265	200	308

Comments

Well, I won't be using them again. 

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Almost seems worth doing paper filing, so they will need to work doing the input 

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They sometimes can't find anything and you have to start over. That happened trying to find my Dad's case file. They can't find any record he naturalized. I have since found his papers so better file using the number on them before the price hike hits.