The fee for filing your naturalization application is:* $595.00
The biometric services fee for having your fingerprints taken is:** $ 85.00
Total:
$680.00
You must send the $680.00 fee with your application. Pay the fee with a check or money order drawn on a U.S. bank payable to the Department of Homeland Security. Do not use the initials DHS or USDHS. Do Not Send Cash.
Residents of Guam should make the fee payable to the “Treasurer, Guam,” and residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands should make the fee payable to the “Commissioner of Finance of the Virgin Islands.”
If required, USCIS may also take your photograph and signature as part of the biometric services.
Remember that your application fee is not refundable even if you withdraw your application or if your case is denied.
* If you are applying for naturalization based on your own service in the Armed Forces of the United States, no filing fee is required.
** If you are 75 years or older, or if you are filing on the basis of your service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or if you are filing from abroad, do not send the biometric services fee for fingerprinting with your application.
Form M-479 (Rev. 11/23/10)N
Naturalization Eligibility Worksheet
Instructions