On January 11, 2022 (87 FR 1317), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule in the federal register making the 2022 annual inflation adjustment to its civil monetary penalties. This final rule describes the civil penalties that DHS and its components, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) can assess for violations according to their respective regulations. DHS includes tables at the end of each section in this final rule, which list the individual adjustments for each penalty. The new penalties will be effective for penalties assessed after January 11, 2022 whose associated violations occurred after November 2, 2015. This rule is effective on January 11, 2022.

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DHS 01-11-2022 final rule civil penalty adjustments