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The Department of State amends the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services (Schedule) for visa fees. More specifically, the rule amends the Border Crossing Card fee paid by a Mexican citizen under age 15 whose parent or guardian has applied or is applying for a border crossing card (the reduced Border Crossing Card fee). The Department is decreasing this fee in light of the expiration of the authority provided by the Emergency Afghan Allies Extension Act of 2014, section 2, Public Law 113-160, which imposed a temporary $1 surcharge on the fees for Machine Readable Visa (MRV) and Border Crossing Card (BCC) application processing, to be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury. This provision required the Department of State to start collecting this surcharge on January 1, 2015 and it expired five and a half years after the first date on which the surcharge was collected, which was June 30, 2020. The Department must reduce the reduced Border Crossing Card fee by $1, for a total fee of $15, to continue to collect the legislatively mandated fee amount of $13 and all remaining applicable surcharges.