FY 2025 Congressional Budget Justification - Appendix 1: Department of State Diplomatic Engagement

cyber and emerging technologies, climate and clean energy transition, multilateral diplomacy, economic statecraft, and global health); increase staffing for bureaus that work on mission critical issues, such as the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP), GHSD, and the Office of the Chief Economist; expand implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which enables the Department’. [...] The listed fees include the fee for waiver of the two-year residency requirement for exchange visitors seeking to adjust status (known as the “J- Waiver” fee) and the portion of Fraud Prevention and Detection (H&L) fees made available to the Department for certain fraud prevention and detection activities. [...] 109-472) (authorizing Secretary of State to amend administratively the amounts of the surcharges).]   To better align existing costs to a more appropriate fee or surcharge, the FY 2025 Request seeks the authority to set and spend the immigrant visa and passport security surcharges on a broader set of activities, including the protection of U. [...] 1153 note) provides that the Department of State may collect and retain a fee that ensures the recovery of the cost to the Department of allocating and processing applications for visas to be issued under the Diversity Lottery Program. [...] (3) DIPLOMATIC POLICY AND SUPPORT.—For necessary expenses for the functional bureaus of the Department of State, including representation to certain international organizations in which the United States participates pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant to the advice and consent of the Senate or specific Acts of Congress, general administration, and arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmamen.