All Potential and Former Legal Emigrants Coming to the US-- Take the Time to Take Steps against Amnesty!

[Karee 4,191]

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/cisomb_annualrpt07__June_11_2007_section3h__funding.pdf

"Congress mandates that USCIS be self-funded. This includes covering the cost of

programs for which the agency charges no fees, i.e., “unfunded mandates,” such as asylum and

refugee processing and U.S. armed forces naturalization filings, as well as operational overhead

and information technology modernization.

Figure 12: USCIS Fee Revenue for FY 06

Form Total

Revenue

(millions)

I-765 (Employment Authorization Application) $241

N-400 (Naturalization Application) $233

Biometric Fees -- Photograph and Fingerprint Fee $165

Premium Processing (for I-129s) $160

I-485 (Green Card Application) $160

I-130 (Family Immigrant Petition) $141

I-90 (Green Card Replacement Application) $122

I-129 (Temporary Employment) $79

I-131 (Travel Document Application) $62

I-539 (Extension or Change of Temporary Status) $46

I-751 (Removal of Conditional Residence) $27

I-140 (Employment Immigrant Petition) $26

Life Act (74)- 245(i) (Penalty Fee for Immigrant Petition) $39

I-290B (Notice of Appeal to the Administrative Appeals Office) $18

I-600A (Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition) $15

N-600 (Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative) $15

I-129F (Fiancé(e) Petition) $11

I-687 - over 18 years of age

(Application for Status as A Temporary Resident)

$10

Subtotal $1,570

All Other Forms and Miscellaneous Revenue $79

Grand Total $1,649

Source: USCIS FY 06 Fee Collections"

That's all of their funding laid out right there. Virtually NOTHING from the government. Maybe now you see why the system is so broken? And why the thought of illegals getting to jump into this mess makes people who are trying to apply now so hopping mad?????

So much for "The Truth"

This is Visa Journey .No one cares about all that immigration stuff .Please try to stick to Zimmerman and Guns or be gone

I tried explaining that earlier.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

As usual you are wrong. Please see my post above.

Sorry for snapping. You may fit in after all

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I'm still waitin' to see pics of all those houses with the doors removed. Here they come.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

As usual you are wrong. Please see my post above.

Annual Report to Congress June 2007

You don't think you could come up with something more current?

[thedude6752000 360]

Sorry for snapping. You may fit in after all

Probably shouldn't have posted that, I do apologize. But patriots continual tactics off butting into the conversation but adding nothing of value are really getting on my nerves. I will edit that post right now though. Patriot, my apologies.

[Bugs 455]

The K visa is the more expensive way to do things. It is less expensive to do the IR-1/CR-1 route. No adjustment of status, wife can work right away, green card upon arrival, no travel restrictions. Plus, she gets a real church wedding with her family present, rather that a hurried civil wedding with a homeless guy you picked up off the street for a witness*.

* Really happened to a friend of mine - they forgot about witnesses until the last minute.

It is not more expensive if you have a hurried civil wedding. It IS indeed more expensive to go there and get married. Especially in the Philippines, where there are hoops you have to jump through that involve you staying there for several weeks, or with multiple trips. This is why we decided upon the fiance visa route.

[thedude6752000 360]

You don't think you could come up with something more current?

I have seen no proof that things have changed with regards to funding since this report, but I will look to see what I can find.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Probably shouldn't have posted that, I do apologize. But patriots continual tactics off butting into the conversation but adding nothing of value are really getting on my nerves. I will edit that post right now though. Patriot, my apologies.

P.S. Don't apologize. I bring people together. It's my role here

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Sorry for snapping. You may fit in after all

[Peikko 1,575]

The US is nuts, yay!

Regardless, I still wouldn't swap the legal process for the uncertainties of the undocumented, nor did I moan about that wait times, but rather enjoyed my enforced inability to work, those were the days

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I have seen no proof that things have changed with regards to funding since this report, but I will look to see what I can find.

Budget Request: $3,219,466,000

Gross Discretionary: $ 124,213,000

Mandatory, Fees

& Trust Fund: $3,095,253,000

Employees (FTE): 13,151

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/MGMT/FY%202014%20BIB%20-%20FINAL%20-508%20Formatted%20(4).pdf

The bolded comes out of the general fund. Fees account for a portion of the remainder.

[Karee 4,191]

The bolded comes out of the general fund. Fees account for a portion of the remainder.

Is that the entire DHS budget, or just USCIS?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Is that the entire DHS budget, or just USCIS?

The link is for the entire DHS FY2014 request. The portion I posted is for the USCIS budget request.

[thedude6752000 360]

Is that the entire DHS budget, or just USCIS?

I was just about to post that. The USCIS gets 124 million in federal funds, out of a total budget of about 3.24 billion, meaing 25% of its funding from the government. That means that it is 75% self funded.

And only 13,000 employes to handle the millions of millions of cases per year. There's your broken system.