Fee rise for US passport got after applying for US citizenship!

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Fee rise for US passport got after applying for US citizenship!

The application fee for an adult new passport is jumping by 27 percent, from $55 to $70, with a 100 percent increase, from $20 to $40, in the passport security surcharge.In addition to the increase in the application fee, the department will now charge $82 - up from nothing - to add new pages to a U.S. passport.It says the fee is needed to offset the cost of the pages, the time spent affixing the pages into the passport book, endorsing the passport and performing a quality-control check.And registering the overseas birth of an American child is going up as well. It will now cost $100 to apply for a report of a birth abroad, up from $65.

U.S. citizenship is priceless to some, worthless to others. But now the State Department has a dollar figure: U.S. citizenship is worth $450.At least that's what it will cost you to renounce it.Under new consular fees published Thursday in the Federal Register, the cost of processing a formal renunciation of U.S. citizenship skyrocketed from $0 to $450.