That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for the following purpose, namely:
To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and for other purposes.
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Sec. 101
For fiscal year 2020, and for each fiscal year thereafter until the total amount of the surcharges collected under this section equals the amount of the supplemental appropriation provided in this Act for “Operations and Support”, each applicant paying the premium fee authorized under section 286(u) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(u)) shall pay a surcharge in addition to such fee. The surcharge shall equal 10 percent of such premium fee, rounded up to the nearest dollar.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 551 et seq.) and the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), beginning 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall begin collecting the surcharge described in subsection (a) and shall reject any petition or application submitted without payment for such surcharge, if applicable. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including subsections (m), (n), and (u) of section 286 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356), the Secretary shall deposit all surcharges collected under this section into the general fund of the Treasury.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amounts collected under this section are designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and such amounts shall only be collected if the President designates such amounts as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i).
The budgetary effects of this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
In the Senate, this section is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.