Tracing Your Family's Roots May Soon Get A Lot More Expensive
Access to some genealogical records kept by the U.S. government may get a lot more expensive to obtain, especially for those seeking family records for immigrants from the late 1800s to mid 1900s.
Dec 29, 2019
3 minutes
December 30 is the deadline to submit a comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over a proposed fee hike to access some genealogy files--and some of them date back over a hundred years.
The USCIS wants to increase the fee for obtaining immigration files by 500%, which means some people would have to pay more than $600 for the documents. The move would affect families of the millions of people who immigrated to the United States in the
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