Blog: Asylum

Your Asylum Case Is Still Pending. Do You Have to Pay the 2026 Annual Asylum Fee?

Aug 26, 2026

You filed Form I-589 and your asylum case is still pending. Maybe you are waiting for a USCIS asylum interview. Maybe your case is already before an immigration judge. Then you receive a notice about an Annual Asylum Fee, see a $102 charge online, or hear that a federal court recently changed the rules. That can leave you with a practical question: do you actually have to pay it, and what happens if you already...