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Fee for Fingerprints Collected by CBP

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will now charge a fee for collecting fingerprints from applicants seeking unescorted access to CBP security areas at airports. The new fee applies to both paper application filers and certain badge applicants. This is a change in operational fees for airport security clearance procedures.
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SourceFed. Register
PublishedMay 18, 2026

This notice announces that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin collecting a fee for fingerprints collected by CBP from applicants seeking unescorted access to CBP security areas at airports. CBP collects fingerprints from applicants when the applicant submits a paper application or when the applicant is an eBadge applicant for whom CBP has not received fingerprints from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or the fingerprints CBP receives from TSA are unreadable or un

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