A registered 501(c)(3) public charity · San Antonio, Texas
We pay the immigration filing fees that price families out of their own cases. Not lawyers’ fees — the government’s fees. The ones that get a filing rejected the day it arrives.
Exhibit A
These are the government’s own published fees. Nothing here is an estimate.
| Filing | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asylum application | $0 | $100 | new fee |
| Annual asylum fee — every year pending | none | $102 | no waiver |
| Adjustment of status, in court (I-485) | varied | $2,980 | new EOIR fee |
| Cancellation of removal (non-LPR) | $130 | $1,640 | +1,162% |
| Waiver of inadmissibility (I-601) | varied | $2,120 | new EOIR fee |
| Appeal to the BIA | $110 | $1,030 | +836% |
| Appeal of DHS decision | $110 | $1,030 | +836% |
| Motion to reopen | $145 | $1,065 | +634% |
| Temporary Protected Status | $50 | $510 | +920% |
“No fee-waiver or reduction in fee is permitted.”
U.S. Department of Justice, on the annual asylum feeNo hardship exception. No indigency relief. A case pending five years accrues $510 in annual fees alone, and there is no legal mechanism to reduce it. That is the gap we exist to close.
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We don’t round these to look tidy. They are what the government charges.
One year of the annual asylum fee, for one person.
Five years of annual fees, or one TPS filing.
One full appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
A family of four’s cancellation of removal, biometrics included.
In our community, 'papers' are everything.
We fight for papers. We work for papers. We present papers to ICE in the hopes of proving our right to stay, to work, and to live without fear. In the immigration system, 'papers' represent more than just documentation—they represent status, security, and the recognition of our humanity by a system that often tries to ignore it.
But a piece of paper can never tell the whole story.
Behind every legal filing, every work permit, and every status is a pulse. A heartbeat. A human being with a family, a history, and a future that no government form can fully capture.
As an immigration attorney and the child of immigrants from Mexico, I see this tension every day. I see the high stakes of the struggle for documentation, but I never lose sight of the person holding the paper.
Every dollar of profit from this store goes toward removing the financial barriers to justice. Right now, donations and profits go directly to covering USCIS and immigration court filing fees for families who have been priced out of the system by the fee increases under H.R.1.
Paper & Pulse does not provide legal representation, legal advice, or case strategy — we are a 501(c)(3) that pays filing fees, not a law firm.
This is more than a shop; it is the seed for a future fund that can cover filing fees at scale. Our goal is to build a permanent source of fee relief—ensuring that no "pulse" is ever lost simply because they lacked the "paper" to pay a government fee.
Defend the dignity. Protect the pulse.
Every item you buy helps cover the federal filing fees that stand between families and their day in court. Paper & Pulse does not provide legal representation — we help pay the fees.
Stand up for those who need it most. Join the movement with every purchase.