Speech #730124811

The fee for a certificate of arrival under this bill will be reduced from $5 to $2.50. the fee for receiving and filing a declaration of intention and the issuing of a duplicate thereof would be reduced from $5 to $2.50. the fee for making. filing. and docketing a petition for citizenship and for final hearing would be decreased from $10 to $5. The fee for the issuance of new certificates of citizenship or declarations of intention in place of those lost. mutilated. or destroyed. would be reduced from $10 to $1. At the present time it frequently costs an alien from $75 to $100 to get naturalized. Everyone agrees that these fees are exorbitant. and both the Department of Labor under the previous administration and the Depaxtment of Labor under this administration agree that these fees should be reduced. For years citizens and organizations interested in the problems of our aliens have been urging these reductions. and I have introduced bills to accomplish this for several years.