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Annual Renewal Fee Instructions

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.  

  1. Navigate to PACER.gov . In the upper right hand corner click the log in link. 
  1. Click on the "PACER Log in" tab.
  2. Enter your PACER Username and Password.
  3. In the section asking Where would you like to go? click on the drop down menu arrow and select Iowa Northern District Court.
  4. Click Login. 
  5. 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.
  6. 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 
  7. 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