If you are suspended and are trying to make a payment on past-due fees, you must use the Reinstatement Fee event.
***Note: The Northern and Southern Districts have separate filing systems. If you are admitted to both districts, you must make separate payments to each district.
- Navigate to PACER.gov . In the upper right hand corner click the log in link.
- Click on the "PACER Log in" tab.
- Enter your PACER Username and Password.
- In the section asking Where would you like to go? click on the drop down menu arrow and select Iowa Northern District Court.
- Click Login.
- Click the box in front of "I understand that, if I file, I must comply with the redaction rules. I have read this notice." and click Continue.
- The Iowa Northern District CM/ECF Document Filing System page will come up. Click the purple/blue hyperlink Northern District of Iowa - Document Filing System
- To pay the Annual Renewal Fee in CM/ECF follow the steps below:
- Civil
- Admission Payments
- On the next screen click on 'Annual Renewal Fee 20##' so it populates the Selected Event text box to the right
- Click Next, click Next
- Answer Yes or No, click Next, click Next
- Review the information, click Next and enter your PACER password and click Login
- Enter your credit card information, click Next
- Check the box for authorization to charge your credit card, and click Submit and you will be returned to CM/ECF to complete the filing
- Complete the screens in CM/ECF until you reach the Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) screen.
- Print the NEF for your records