Nexus application fee increasing to $120 US at beginning of October

The fee to use for the Nexus trusted-traveller program will enhance from $50 US to $120 US on Oct. 1 of this 12 months, the federal authorities introduced Tuesday.

The Canada Border Companies Company (CBSA) says the present $50 payment was set twenty years in the past and now not covers the price of this system.

“The brand new payment would replicate extra precisely the price of administrating this system and the funding required for future program enhancements, together with expertise and infrastructure enhancements,” the company mentioned in a press launch.

The Nexus program, which eases the stream of individuals throughout the Canada-U.S. border, absolutely reopened in Canada final 12 months following a year-long standoff between Ottawa and Washington over U.S. brokers’ proper to hold weapons on Canadian soil.

A compromise was reached that allowed Canadian border brokers to interview Nexus candidates individually from U.S. brokers at eight Canadian airports, somewhat than collectively as they did earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since then, the CBSA says it has acquired over half 1,000,000 purposes and famous that the payment enhance will assist the company sustain with that demand.

The CBSA mentioned it anticipates an increase in purposes forward of the Oct. 1 payment enhance and is encouraging candidates to e book an interview as quickly as potential.

U.S. has been calling for a payment enhance

The present $50 Nexus payment is considerably decrease than charges for 2 different pre-clearance traveller applications operated by U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP).

The U.S. signalled in 2020 that it will be making regulatory adjustments to harmonize the applying charges of all three applications.

The CBP echoed the CBSA’s feedback in regards to the want for a Nexus payment enhance in its personal press launch on Tuesday.

“As these applications have matured and expanded, updating the payment buildings is crucial to the continuation and administration of the applications,” the assertion mentioned.