# Detention and Removal Office Fee

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Detention and Removal Office Fee  
**Source document:** Immigration and Customs Enforcement · p. 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/detention-and-removal-office-fee  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 3.0 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 3.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 3.0 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The U.S. Attorney General may stay the removal of a noncitizen arriving at an air or seaport of entry when the noncitizen needed to testify in the prosecution of a person for a violation of a law of the United States or of any State. Section 241(c)(2)(C)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides the Attorney General the authority to release the noncitizen upon the individual's filing of a bond not less than $1,500, and Section 241(c)(2)(C)(iii) allows the Attorney General to prescribe additional conditions. Under these circumstances, a noncitizen may request release by applying for Stay of Removal and paying the release bond. The individual may request a stay for up to one year. Anything over one year must be renewed by filing a new application. The Application for Stay of Deportation or Removal (I-246) fee - currently $155 per application - is collected and deposited into the Immigration Examination Fee Account (Title 8 U.S.C. 1356(m) and (n)). Cases and application statuses - I-246, in conjunction with other relevant ICE forms - are monitored for compliance by the Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Offices at which they are filed and submitted. Fee Uses: Fee collections cover the costs incurred by the Detention and Removal Office during a stay of deportation or removal. The collections are also used to fund some Custody Operations non-bed general expenses.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Immigration and Customs Enforcement › Detention and Removal Office Fee


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*