When must I pay fees and file a required bond after permission to appeal?

Verify entry of the order actually granting permission to appeal.

Do not substitute district certification, the permission petition’s filing or service, or later circuit docketing.

Rule 5(d)(2) requires no separate notice of appeal and uses the permission-grant entry as the notice date for rules-based calculation.

Confirm required fees and whether the district court requires a Rule 7 cost bond.

1. Verify actual entry of the permission-grant order.
2. Exclude that day.
3. Count fourteen calendar days.
4. Check final-day holidays, actual inaccessibility and orders.

Exclude the verified permission-grant entry day and count fourteen calendar days under Rule 26(a)(1). A final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday carries forward. Check actual inaccessibility and any granted extension.

FRAP 26(a)(6) includes its listed federal holidays and days declared holidays by the President or Congress. For periods after an event, also check state holidays where the challenged district court or circuit clerk’s principal office is located. Check actual inaccessibility and orders. The national calendar does not infer those facts.

Fictitious example

A fictitious order granting permission to appeal is entered July 6, 2026. Exclude entry day. Fourteen calendar days ends Monday, July 20. Assume no additional state holiday, inaccessibility or different order.

Fictitious dates. Check applicable state holidays, inaccessibility and actual orders.

Conditional cost bond

Rule 7 permits the district court in a civil case to require a bond or other security in the necessary form and amount. Rule 5(d)(1) does not require the same bond in every case.

Required fees

Rule 5(d)(1)(A) requires all required fees paid to the district clerk. This guide does not establish the fee amount or payment channel.

Later circuit docketing

Under Rule 5(d)(3), the district clerk notifies the circuit clerk after fee payment and the circuit clerk then dockets the appeal. That later action does not replace permission-grant entry.

Actual extension

Read Rule 26(b) and any actual court grant. A pending request does not itself replace the fourteen-day period.

• This guide does not determine appellate jurisdiction, supply a statute-specific petition period, infer a court grant or set a fee or bond amount.
• Stays, merits briefing and a statute-specific appeal petition require separate review.

• Verify actual entry of the order granting permission.
• Confirm and pay all required fees to the district clerk.
• Read whether Rule 7 and the actual order require a cost bond or security.
• Complete the required bond act, form and amount.
• Preserve payment and filing evidence and check subsequent appeal docketing.
• Pay the district clerk and complete any required cost-bond filing. Rule 26(a)(4)(A) uses the district court’s time zone for electronic district-court filing; other ordinary filing ends at scheduled clerk closing. A payment channel may have separate operational requirements. Verify permitted payment and bond methods with the district clerk and read the actual order.