AILA letter to DHS on HUGE fee increases

[Weavman 0]

Is anyone familiar with a letter that the AILA sent on April 1 to the DHS:

American Immigration Lawyers Association

_______________________________________________________

918 F Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 (202) 216-2400

April 1, 2007

Via email: OSComments@dhs.gov

Director, Regulatory Management Division

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Department of Homeland Security

111 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 3d Floor

Washington, D.C. 20529

Re: DHS Docket No. USCIS—2006-0044

Comment to Proposed Rule “Adjustment of the Immigration and Naturalization Benefit Application and Petition Fee Schedule” (72 Fed. Reg. 4888 (February 1, 2007))

The whole umpteen pages of really good reading (had to laugh several times...)

http://www.bibdaily.com/pdfs/AILA%20fee%20...nt%204-1-07.pdf

I am curious if the DHS-USCIS ever commented. I find one insight that they made in the letter very interesting and sort of disturbing (since I finally got my 1.5 hours of I-129F completed - ha - and sent the $455 huge-er bucks) that the increased fees would be used to attack the backlog of those that filed under the $170 fee. Anyway, that on top of the news today of the millions of 'profit' on passport processing... makes you wonder.

So sum this: Does anyone know anything on this? I did a few string searches and did not find anything in the forums. I am all for the increase if it would result in 2.5 times less than 6+ months to get my honey here!

[Dakine 26]

Is anyone familiar with a letter that the AILA sent on April 1 to the DHS:

American Immigration Lawyers Association

_______________________________________________________

918 F Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 (202) 216-2400

April 1, 2007

Via email: OSComments@dhs.gov

Director, Regulatory Management Division

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Department of Homeland Security

111 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 3d Floor

Washington, D.C. 20529

Re: DHS Docket No. USCIS—2006-0044

Comment to Proposed Rule “Adjustment of the Immigration and Naturalization Benefit Application and Petition Fee Schedule” (72 Fed. Reg. 4888 (February 1, 2007))

The whole umpteen pages of really good reading (had to laugh several times...)

http://www.bibdaily.com/pdfs/AILA%20fee%20...nt%204-1-07.pdf

I am curious if the DHS-USCIS ever commented. I find one insight that they made in the letter very interesting and sort of disturbing (since I finally got my 1.5 hours of I-129F completed - ha - and sent the $455 huge-er bucks) that the increased fees would be used to attack the backlog of those that filed under the $170 fee. Anyway, that on top of the news today of the millions of 'profit' on passport processing... makes you wonder.

So sum this: Does anyone know anything on this? I did a few string searches and did not find anything in the forums. I am all for the increase if it would result in 2.5 times less than 6+ months to get my honey here!

Gets worse when she gets here and goes to adjust status!

Things may speed up and the employees "may" be more polite as the director said was some of the reasons for the fee increase.

Sure got off to a BAD start tho!