[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 47 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 47

Disapproving the rule submitted to the Congress by U.S. Citizenship and 
  Immigration Services on June 6, 2007, relating to adjustment of the 
  Immigration and Naturalization Benefit Application and Petition Fee 
                               Schedule.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2007

     Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California introduced the following joint 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Disapproving the rule submitted to the Congress by U.S. Citizenship and 
  Immigration Services on June 6, 2007, relating to adjustment of the 
  Immigration and Naturalization Benefit Application and Petition Fee 
                               Schedule.

Whereas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has not adequately explained 
        or justified the amounts and distributions of its recent fee increases;
Whereas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has produced no specific, 
        detailed plan for its infrastructure modernization efforts;
Whereas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has suffered from a lack of 
        transparency and stability in its operations and policy development;
Whereas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has repeatedly wasted money 
        and resources; and
Whereas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has consistently failed to 
        reduce application processing backlogs and has demonstrated no adequate 
        plan for doing so: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the 
Department of Homeland Security to the Congress on June 6, 2007, 
relating to adjustment of the Immigration and Naturalization Benefit 
Application and Petition Fee Schedule (published in the Federal 
Register on May 30, 2007, at 72 Fed. Reg. 29851), and such rule shall 
have no force or effect.
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