Our immigration colleagues recently published a LawFlash on the July 29 decision by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to grant a preliminary nationwide injunction to temporarily block the continued implementation of the public charge rule during a public health emergency such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Two days later, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a new proposed fee schedule with increased filing fees, set to take effect on October 2, 2020.