The Price of Citizenship
The price of becoming a U.S. citizen has just gone up, from $400 to $675, the New York Times notes. It's all part of a plan by the Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau to collect an additional $1.1 billion a year in revenue to hire 1,500 agents to cut processing time for immigration applications.
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