USCIS Website issue

[Clint&chai 56]

no you said no tax payer dollars, which is not true.... if there is short fall in USCIS funding it would come from Tax payer dollars, yes it would be nice if they were lower and they just had a very large increase....... all this talk of the immigration problems in the US I am sure most people have no idea how expensive it is......... I went to Thailand and wanted to stay longer than the 30 days allowed, the fee was $40.00 for people coming here as a tourist I think its $165.     so sad even that is discouraging for some people who want to vacation but that is America, all about the money....... every time you turn around ..... in all aspects of life, no tax is a good tax so they make it in fee's on every level... look into building a house and see what the fee's are, it is funny how the shift is before some paid higher taxes and we had lower fee's, now we have higher fee's for everyone and lower taxes for the rich... LOL. I see you spouse is from Canada, my fathers home country, I love Canada... and congrats on your Naturalization when it happens....

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4 minutes ago, Clint&chai said:

no you said no tax payer dollars, which is not true.... if there is short fall in USCIS funding it would come from Tax payer dollars, yes it would be nice if they were lower and they just had a very large increase....... all this talk of the immigration problems in the US I am sure most people have no idea how expensive it is......... I went to Thailand and wanted to stay longer than the 30 days allowed, the fee was $40.00 for people coming here as a tourist I think its $165.     so sad even that is discouraging for some people who want to vacation but that is America, all about the money....... every time you turn around ..... in all aspects of life, no tax is a good tax so they make it in fee's on every level... look into building a house and see what the fee's are, it is funny how the shift is before some paid higher taxes and we had lower fee's, now we have higher fee's for everyone and lower taxes for the rich... LOL. I see you spouse is from Canada, my fathers home country, I love Canada... and congrats on your Naturalization when it happens....

I was being sarcastic when I said no tax dollars in the first part of the post you quoted, I should have worded it differently, I admit.

I wish it were more cost-effective....I was looking at the cost of the Adjustment of Status now, compared to when I applied for that in 2005 and the difference just blew me away!  Sometimes I think there would be less undocumented immigrants if they didn't make it so damn expensive to become  documented.

 

I'm the Canadian, my spouse is the USC.   You should apply for proof of citizenship in Canada, too, since your father is from there!

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Just now, Going through said:

I was being sarcastic when I said no tax dollars in the first part of the post you quoted, I should have worded it differently, I admit.

I wish it were more cost-effective....I was looking at the cost of the Adjustment of Status now, compared to when I applied for that in 2005 and the difference just blew me away!  Sometimes I think there would be less undocumented immigrants if they didn't make it so damn expensive to become  documented.

 

I'm the Canadian, my spouse is the USC.   You should apply for proof of citizenship in Canada, too, since your father is from there!

Funny you say that, I plan on doing that, I just got his birth certificate from New Brunswick but I want to be well on the way with our process here before I do, but I plan on doing just that, now tell me is your spouse going to get his Canadian citizenship via your marriage? I am hoping I can do that with my fiance who will be my spouse by  then, we are a same sex couple and Canada does recognize it, so we would have dual citizenship.... I love you PM by the way...... 

 

your probably right about the fee's adding to the illegal problem, but the bigger problem is employers who are willing to break the law.......but our focus is on  the migrant not the business which is just sad...... the fee's are very high and the process beyond the fees, the physical is very expense for my fiance, in Singapore he could get a complete physical for about $100. and it will be $300 or more because of this... very sad....... It is nice to see your still supporting this site even as far as you are, your at the end... how wonderful for you both....... I look forward to that day, but I want to personally thank you for the support on this site, people need it the process is so confusing and scary.... I have found the people on this site to be very helpful and your an inspiration to many like beacon of light that there is an end.......... did you all use lawyers? I hope to not have too with this site

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1 minute ago, Clint&chai said:

Funny you say that, I plan on doing that, I just got his birth certificate from New Brunswick but I want to be well on the way with our process here before I do, but I plan on doing just that, now tell me is your spouse going to get his Canadian citizenship via your marriage? I am hoping I can do that with my fiance who will be my spouse by  then, we are a same sex couple and Canada does recognize it, so we would have dual citizenship.... I love you PM by the way...... 

 

your probably right about the fee's adding to the illegal problem, but the bigger problem is employers who are willing to break the law.......but our focus is on  the migrant not the business which is just sad...... the fee's are very high and the process beyond the fees, the physical is very expense for my fiance, in Singapore he could get a complete physical for about $100. and it will be $300 or more because of this... very sad....... It is nice to see your still supporting this site even as far as you are, your at the end... how wonderful for you both....... I look forward to that day, but I want to personally thank you for the support on this site, people need it the process is so confusing and scary.... I have found the people on this site to be very helpful and your an inspiration to many like beacon of light that there is an end.......... did you all use lawyers? I hope to not have too with this site

Nah, my husband isn't interested in Canadian-anything.   After my N400 is over, I plan on getting my daughter's Canadian proof of citizenship since she was born in the US.  As long as I do it before she turns 14 (she's 11 now) it's just a matter of mailing in a few of my ID documents, her birth certificate and a photo of her...no fingerprinting or interview or anything like that.  She's already dual by birth, just need the proof of citizenship so I can get her a Canadian passport.

 

I did not use a lawyer...I figure so long as you can read and write and understand English reasonably well, and don't have anything major in your criminal past, then a lawyer isn't really going to do anything you can't already do yourself.  Just my opinion though.

 

Trudeau is the best, and his father was a wonderful Prime Minister too!  Easy on the eyes too  

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1 minute ago, Going through said:

Nah, my husband isn't interested in Canadian-anything.   After my N400 is over, I plan on getting my daughter's Canadian proof of citizenship since she was born in the US.  As long as I do it before she turns 14 (she's 11 now) it's just a matter of mailing in a few of my ID documents, her birth certificate and a photo of her...no fingerprinting or interview or anything like that.  She's already dual by birth, just need the proof of citizenship so I can get her a Canadian passport.

 

I did not use a lawyer...I figure so long as you can read and write and understand English reasonably well, and don't have anything major in your criminal past, then a lawyer isn't really going to do anything you can't already do yourself.  Just my opinion though.

 

Trudeau is the best, and his father was a wonderful Prime Minister too!  Easy on the eyes too  

That's too bad, great thing to do for your daughter..... glad to hear your response about the lawyer I felt the same way, my fiance is Chinese/Malay who is a PR of Singapore, English he speaks but has trouble with understanding some things but he speaks pretty well and the little things like context and grammar are hard at times, we just completed his DS 160 last night.... from this point on it should be easier for him, but this was hard for him and frustrating as so much of it seems so pointless LOL....

 

It is a smart thing to have two passports, just is, your husband should re consider.... because as things are going we might need to apply for visa's for travel to many countries soon, I know the EU is  considering pulling the USA from reciprocity, as we don't extend it to all the nations in the EU.....and honestly you all have better health care overall I  think, but I am older so that stuff is important to me......but options are always a great thing to have... I wish I had done the canadian thing sooner, my dad always told us we could and sure enough when I researched it after this election LOL it was true....