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USCIS filing fee

Also called form fee, G-1055, fee schedule.

The amount USCIS charges to file a given EB-5 form. The fees are set by regulation, under 8 U.S.C. 1356(m) and codified at 8 CFR 106.2, but for EB-5 forms the amount USCIS will actually accept is the one in its published schedule, Form G-1055, because the regulation's EB-5 figures are stayed.

What it decides

As at 5 August 2026, Form G-1055 edition 05/29/26 charges $3,675 for Form I-526, $3,675 for Form I-526E, $3,750 for Form I-829, $17,795 for Form I-956, $17,795 for Form I-956F, $3,035 for Form I-956G, and $0 for Forms I-956H and I-956K. An initial Form I-526E carries a separate $1,000 EB-5 Integrity Fund fee under 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(J)(ii)(II); G-1055 states it does not apply to an amendment request, and it never rides on a standalone Form I-526. Each 1 October a regional center owes the fund $20,000, or $10,000 where it had 20 or fewer total investors in its new commercial enterprises in the preceding fiscal year, under 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(J)(ii)(I). No separate biometric services fee attaches to any of these forms. Do not read an amount from 8 CFR 106.2: as at the eCFR text of 3 August 2026 it still prints the 2024 rule figures of $11,160 for Forms I-526 and I-526E, $9,525 for Form I-829, $47,695 for Forms I-956 and I-956F, and $4,470 for Form I-956G. Those provisions were stayed in part, EB-5 fees only, in Moody v. Noem, No. 24-cv-00762-CNS (D. Colo. 12 November 2025). The rule was not vacated and the stay can be lifted, but today USCIS collects the G-1055 amounts, and G-1055 warns that a filing tendering an incorrect fee will be rejected.

Governed by Form G-1055, Fee Schedule, edition 05/29/26 (https://www.uscis.gov/g-1055; PDF at https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/g-1055.pdf); 8 U.S.C. 1356(m); 8 CFR 106.1 and 106.2 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-106/section-106.2); 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(J)(ii) (https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1153&num=0&edition=prelim); Moody v. Noem, No. 24-cv-00762-CNS (D. Colo. 12 November 2025), cited without a link because the order has no government URL.

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Related terms

Administrative feeA charge the investor pays to the new commercial enterprise, its manager or the regional center on top of the qualifying investment, covering offering, marketing and management costs. No immigration statute or regulation sets or caps the amount, and it does not count toward the $800,000 or $1,050,000.
Inflation adjustmentThe automatic adjustment of the EB-5 minimum investment amounts to inflation, added to the statute by the RIA in 2022, which runs for the first time on 1 January 2027 and every five years after.

Checked against primary sources on 6 August 2026. Back to the glossary