Been through and done that. I'll have to renew my green card next year. I am not looking forward to that.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Plane ticket: over $800.00 (dont recall the exact cost). Immigration > forms: $1,490.00. Theres over 2K right there. Then theres all the > paperwork (nearly a ream), ink, and gas to drive to various places to get > shit done, including driving a few times to Atlanta for interviews and shit. > > And its not over. In 2015 she has to go in for another interview to get > her 10 year green card (her current one is conditional for some reason). > Which means more paperwork and more driving. This time shell have to drive > from Colorado Springs to Denver and back. Ill be in Korea at the time so I > dont know what my part will be and if it will cost anything. Hopefully > just a phone call. Shits not cheap man. Thats just when she gets here. In > the Philippines where she is from, theres the money it costs her to go > from her province to Manila for physicals, shots, and paperwork for her > visa. Thats not cheap either. A few hundred dollars in total. > > And of course, as is with most third world countries, since she is both > the oldest child AND lives in a Western country, she is expected to send > money to her family each month, which we do, $600.00 a month to feed her > family and her son, who is still there. Thats why she wants her > citizenship. So she can bring her family here. The only one she can bring > right now is her son, but she wants her mom and dad, and brothers and > sisters to come here too. Do the math. Its going to get expensive. But > thats fine. I hate seeing her worrying like she is now about her family. > They are on Leyte, about two hours from Tacloban, so they took the brunt of > the recent storm. She has no idea if any of them are alive because there is > no cell service yet. > > But I am getting off track. Yes, its shitty. Something needs to change. > > > On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:42 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Maybe you are focusing on the wrong problem. No way in hell it should > have > > taken thousands of dollars, countless hours, or hundreds of sheets of > > paper, for you to have brought your wife here legally. > > > > That's shitty and that needs t > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368541 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
