Excellent post. Thank you. I will be bookmarking it.
My fiancee has been waiting 4 years for his greencard and there no end in sight. For some reason (his lawyers fault or bureaucracy?) he has to resubmit paperwork he sent in October of 05. He also just got notice that the fees will be going up soon. So even though he submitted his paperwork ages ago, and made the required payments with it, he will have to pay the difference between the increased fee and what he paid. Just because it’s taking so frigging long to get the GC.
And this is for a legal immigrant!
I always joked that we would be married before his GC came through. We’re getting married 2 July. Looks like I was right.
That’s what stinks about this whole amnesty thing. Just think, if he’d broken the law, walked across the southern border, he’d probably be getting his green card sooner and without all the mess of lawyers and dealing with the horrible legal immigration system. Reward the criminals, punish those who obey the laws. It seems to be the new American way, he should fit in quite well.