Total Costs of Immigration

[pushbrk 12,330]

Hey everyone. I am now a happily married immigrant to the USA. However, I am doing a paper for school on illegal immigration and was wondering if anyone could help me to figure out what the total cost of immigration is (including hidden fees like medical assessments, background checks, etc.)? Thank you so much.

You want us to do your homework for you? All the information about family based visas and fees are in the Guides here. Start studying. There are no "hidden fees". There are only people who didn't do their homework and were surprised about fees as a result.

I don't think this is a helpful comment. I think his question was directed to anyone who happened to have a figure on hand that they could share with him. Not asking for someone to do the research for him. Of course every question asked on this board could be researched with enough effort--but that's what this board is for, to get addl info from other people's experience and knowledge.

actually i thought his comment was spot on. Its not difficult to find all the info on here. I did it, and so did many others, and its her "homework" and they are wanting someone else to give them all the data. There's nothing hidden in the fees. And if she already did the process then she knows all the fees.

Chris

The irony is that the cost of family based immigration varies widely and has little to do with why somebody would decide to immigrate illegally instead. Time and eligibility to legally immigrate are far bigger factors than cost in such decisions, whether the cost is a thousand or ten thousand or more. Hopefully the OP learns this and says so in her paper.

[BigCityDave 0]

6275 Total for me.

That is adding in EVERYTHING to get my girl here and all setup with AOS, EAD, etc.... as well as including our visits