I-912 Request for Fee Waiver
Asks USCIS to waive a filing fee. There are three grounds: receiving a means-tested benefit, household income at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, or financial hardship. It only works on the forms and categories the fee schedule marks as waivable, and for most forms it cannot be filed online.
- Fee
- $0
- Fee waiver
- Available (Form I-912)
- Who files
- Applicants and petitioners who cannot afford the fee, filing it with the form it relates to.
- Where to file
- Filed on paper with the form whose fee is being waived; most forms cannot be filed online with a fee waiver request.
Usually filed with
Part of these processes
What changed in 2025 and 2026
- No Public Law 119-21 fee - the asylum application fee, the annual asylum fee, the parole fee, the parolee EAD fees, the SIJ petition fee, the I-94 fee - can be waived, even where the underlying USCIS fee can. Naturalisation applicants with household income at or below 400 percent of the poverty guidelines can instead pay the reduced $380 N-400 fee, which is a separate request.
Official page. https://www.uscis.gov/i-912. Download the form there, never from a third-party site; check the edition date and fee before filing.