Why did fees go so high this year?

[TracyTN 237]

Snooty Tracy! Brits can't be snooty can they? I thought they were "snobby".

Yah but I'm the Yank.

[Seb928s 2]

I agree with everyone if you think it's to much maybe this isn't what you are really looking for. Keep in mind you are going to spend so much more on the move to USA. It's a benefit not a right to be here. Let me tell you a little story. My father great man that he is was working in West Germany in the early 80's to while my mother was running her own store in Poland. They did everything they could so I would have a great up bringing. I know Poland wasn't the worst country to be in at that time being it a communist state. You have some of those Asian countries like Cambodia where they came in and killed off and sent people to work camps. Anyhow it wasn't the worst and far from the best. Well my dad came to the States the legal way when he arrived he got an Green Card in the mail. Then my father worked on getting my mother and me here. I didn't know how lonely or sad it can be not seeing your wife or son for a year it could be. This was back in 1987 when he came over here of course to New York the gate way to the America. After a year and a half we were able to come to the States with a Green Cards this was June 1988. Now I can see how much it hurt not being able to see your wife or son for that amount of time. As I'm following in his foots steps trying to bring my future wife to the States from Poland. He had to pay the fees back then for us to move here and it happen. My brother younger brother was born here in USA and my parents got their naturalization in 2001 I was just over 18 so I didn't get mine. Then my mother hurt her back at work and wasn't able to work until this year she still has pain everyday but she deals with it. She didn't get anything from it. My parents both worked hard over here in the States and never asked anything more from the government not even food stamps or anything and times were very hard at times. I grew up faster then I should have over here due to that and from that up bringing that is why I'm able to be a great manager at a service shop here in town. Did I think I was going to be working with cars? No, I wanted to go to college and took some courses but wasn't able to finish since my mother had injuried her back. I went to work and college for a little while then I had to work more to help out my parents and hopefully be able to help out my brother and have him go to college. Now I picked a girl from Poland that had a great up bringing and very smart. She just finished school in Poland and her and her sisters have always been helping out their parents on the farm whenever they were not at school. Now we both decided it was time for use to get engaged. I travel to Poland a lot of the years ever since I left Poland any spare time and change I could come up I would go to Poland to spend some time there. Recently I helped my parents and brother move to England as my brother picked a school there to attend. While helping them move I'm doing my I129F and all the stuff that deals with it. It's going to cost money and it's take time but it's only paper that the money is printed on like I said before. I have been able to put money aside now for the AOS and no I don't make the 50k a year I do make some decent money. If you are complaining that you aren't making 50k a year maybe you should do something for yourself and fix that problem. Like it was said before there are people that aren't making much and they somehow manage and don't complain about the fees. Just be grateful you have family here and are able to travel to USA and Canada without a Visa to visit. I don't have any family left in the States right now and she can't travel to even visit me here cause she couldn't get an B-2 Visa over then summer when I was in Poland.

Put it this way no one should pay for your benefit and it's not a Right. I'm proud to be Polish-American or American-Polish which every way you look at it. I have duel citizenship American and Polish and so does my parents and brother. I will always have my homeland in my heart and always USA in it too. USA and Poland are both great IMHO but have good and bad stuff about them. No place in the world is perfect but it's great being an American If the fees go up in 2010 it's ok with me do I hope I file for AOS before they go up Yes and everybody would like to do before they do but you can't do anything about it. Plus I would rather pay more and get things down quicker then have a small fee and wait for years for your file to come up. I think America is one of those few places if you work hard and have some brians (doesn't have to be college grad either) you can get really far in life.

[Seb928s 2]

Forgot to add that I recieved citizenship just this past June as had file myself as I was over 18 when my parents were able to do theirs.