# US EB-5 visa fees to more than double from November 30 2026-09-30T21:37:38+00:00 | World & Diplomacy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 3 independent outlets The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has finalised a fee rule that will sharply increase charges for the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Programme, effective from November 30. The filing fee for Form I-526, used by standalone investors, will rise from $3,675 to $7,615, while the fee for Form I-526E, for investors through a regional centre, will increase from $3,675 to $7,850. The fee for Form I-829, to remove conditions on permanent resident status, will go up from $3,750 to $5,000. Fees for regional centres will rise even more sharply: Form I-956 for designation will increase from $17,795 to $44,115, and Form I-956F for approval of an investment in a commercial enterprise will go from $17,795 to $42,675. USCIS says the agency is largely funded through fees, covering application reviews, background checks, and fraud detection. The EB-5 programme grants a Green Card to foreign investors who invest $1.05 million (or $800,000 in a Targeted Employment Area) and create at least 10 jobs. ## Indian Opinion Analysis All three sources, Livemint, The Hindu BusinessLine, and The Economic Times, report the same USCIS fee rule with neutral, straight news coverage, citing the same figures and effective date of November 30. Livemint adds context on the FY2026 per-country visa limit for India having been reached in June 2026, while The Hindu BusinessLine and The Economic Times both note the programme was created by the US Congress in 1990. No source takes a critical or pro-government stance, the coverage is uniformly factual. The key question for Indian applicants is how the higher fees will combine with existing visa backlogs and country caps, a point Livemint alone explicitly raises. ## Coverage Coverage: 3 sources, 3 neutral - livemint.com (neutral report) Straight factual report with added context on India visa cap - thehindubusinessline.com (neutral report) Straight factual report with background on 1990 origin - economictimes.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Straight factual report using agency copy This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: EB-5, green card, India, US, USCIS Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/us-eb-5-visa-fees-to-more-than-double-from-november-30/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/us-eb-5-visa-fees-to-more-than-double-from-november-30/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/