Would you pay expedite fee?

[Chicagoguy 2 27]

I can always make more money. I can never replace the time I am losing with my wife! I would pay what ever it took took. The only limitation would be the type of payment they would accept.

Master Card, Visa, American Express and Pay Pal

[liberty23456 15]

Most ppl would pay it so the expedite process would then become as long as the regular wait so in the end it wouldn't be worth it.

If done right this would not happen. They should not use the fee to just put you in front of others. They should hire new stuff with the expedite fee. If the expedite fee were $5000 it is more than 10 times the actual costs. So this would benefit also the people in the regular processing.

[CHarvey80 72]

If done right this would not happen. They should not use the fee to just put you in front of others. They should hire new stuff with the expedite fee. If the expedite fee were $5000 it is more than 10 times the actual costs. So this would benefit also the people in the regular processing.

Well, considering the poverty line is below $19,000 for just 1 person and their beneficiary spouse, they will not be able to afford to expedite. Which, to be honest, I am surprised of the amount of people who would not qualify without co-sponsorship on this site alone. With that in mind, I think a expedite fee of about $5000 would keep the line pretty small.

[Ismail+Cassie 36]

Who wouldn't! ))

[teltek35674 2]

I am convinced this is an intentional delay. The workload is the same they are just taking several months to do the work. Essentially they are just 6,7,8 months behind on the work they are required to do. Expedites is the entire problem. There are people getting their K1's from application to interview in less than a month. If everyone had to wait the same and expedites were eliminated the "important people" would make sure the process got changed so it would be quick for everyone. This process is severely flawed if the wait times and requirements were actually preventing fraud then it would be worth it, but there will never do the things that would actually reduce fraud. Instead we wait in a queue for someone to do about 20 minutes of work when actually this should have been done the day after they got the application. What is there to do? we cant actually go to their competition for faster service.

There are people getting their visas faster but they are not the type of people that read and post on groups online. I wished I had done me homework a little better and educated myself a little more. I am not a wealthy person but there is many things more important than money. A judge or government agency in charge of family decisions and they make these decisions like they are ordering lunch and with no compassion I don't know how those people sleep at night worrying about the decisions they make.

[Ismail+Cassie 36]

I am convinced this is an intentional delay. The workload is the same they are just taking several months to do the work. Essentially they are just 6,7,8 months behind on the work they are required to do. Expedites is the entire problem. There are people getting their K1's from application to interview in less than a month. If everyone had to wait the same and expedites were eliminated the "important people" would make sure the process got changed so it would be quick for everyone. This process is severely flawed if the wait times and requirements were actually preventing fraud then it would be worth it, but there will never do the things that would actually reduce fraud. Instead we wait in a queue for someone to do about 20 minutes of work when actually this should have been done the day after they got the application. What is there to do? we cant actually go to their competition for faster service.

There are people getting their visas faster but they are not the type of people that read and post on groups online. I wished I had done me homework a little better and educated myself a little more. I am not a wealthy person but there is many things more important than money. A judge or government agency in charge of family decisions and they make these decisions like they are ordering lunch and with no compassion I don't know how those people sleep at night worrying about the decisions they make.

Very good point. I liked this.

[Robb&Ann 101]

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[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Well, considering the poverty line is below $19,000 for just 1 person and their beneficiary spouse, they will not be able to afford to expedite. Which, to be honest, I am surprised of the amount of people who would not qualify without co-sponsorship on this site alone. With that in mind, I think a expedite fee of about $5000 would keep the line pretty small.

I don't know why that is surprising, people like me who are stay at home mothers and live in the foreign country with our spouse find it difficult to meet the requirements. If my day's house would ever sell and it could clear probate, we would be fine....but for now we don't have any other options.

[JTB11 1,079]

I have to agree with Nola. Our cases are different but we need a co-sponsor as well, my fiance did not get the education I did and his job brings in 3.5k under the required amount. Honestly, I am pretty much expecting to be the one making more money and taking care of things and if I could use my savings to show them we are fine and I wont become public charge I would but they only take into consideration one person (for k1s anyways) so that could be a factor as well.

What I find odd is that they assume the foreigner is moving to another country without a dollar, a year into our relationship we knew we wanted to get married eventually and I started saving up money so its not just him with all the "financial burden" for wedding and what not since my parents are non-existent in terms of any help. sorry

Faster processing for a fee would be great. Possible ? Probably not, which is why they got rid of it in the first place.

[Brandon and Sugar 8]

Lol my fiance would always tell me how he wish there's an option where he can pay the USCIS more so they will process our application fast.

[Athena June 37]

We would definitely pay an expedite fee and would also pay an additional fee for me not to be subjected to the annual F2A quota.

[Erik@Jhen 1]

I defiantly pay, where do I sign up? LOL, but seriously the way and time taken to process could be changed.

[Berty 74]

Unless the fee was truly astronomical (and I hate to be unromantic, but if it was I'd have to live in the real world and pass on it) I suspect a lot of people would pay more money, which would result in the expedited service slowing down and not being very different to how things are now. This could be detrimental generally - continued slow service but higher fees - lose/lose?

[liberty23456 15]

Unless the fee was truly astronomical (and I hate to be unromantic, but if it was I'd have to live in the real world and pass on it) I suspect a lot of people would pay more money, which would result in the expedited service slowing down and not being very different to how things are now. This could be detrimental generally - continued slow service but higher fees - lose/lose?

It would have to be some staggered fee with a decision time guarantee. eg. $1000 one month, $5000 one week. Like most countries have for their visa process. The more you pay, the faster you get it up to same day service.

[liberty23456 15]

I am convinced this is an intentional delay. The workload is the same they are just taking several months to do the work. Essentially they are just 6,7,8 months behind on the work they are required to do. Expedites is the entire problem. There are people getting their K1's from application to interview in less than a month. If everyone had to wait the same and expedites were eliminated the "important people" would make sure the process got changed so it would be quick for everyone. This process is severely flawed if the wait times and requirements were actually preventing fraud then it would be worth it, but there will never do the things that would actually reduce fraud. Instead we wait in a queue for someone to do about 20 minutes of work when actually this should have been done the day after they got the application. What is there to do? we cant actually go to their competition for faster service.

There are people getting their visas faster but they are not the type of people that read and post on groups online. I wished I had done me homework a little better and educated myself a little more. I am not a wealthy person but there is many things more important than money. A judge or government agency in charge of family decisions and they make these decisions like they are ordering lunch and with no compassion I don't know how those people sleep at night worrying about the decisions they make.

Of course it is intentional delay to discourage people from filing. The work load will not accumulate for them endlessly. At some point the wait will become so long that very few people will bother filing and chose different ways.