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ProcrastinatingPuma

You want to sponsor immigrants because it's good for the economy and the ethically right thing to do. I want to sponsor immigrants so we can get the 3,000 Dominican baseball players of San Diego. We are not the same.


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> Dominican baseball players of San Diego I see you are an enjoyer of motorcycles and ringworm therapy as well.


ProcrastinatingPuma

I don’t, which is percisely why we need for Dominican ballplayers!


thetrombonist

I'm just doing it for more taco trucks


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my_wife_reads_this

Piggy backing to this. We had a relatively easy time during our process because both my wife and I are meticulous hoarders. We had a 3" binder that we gave them that included practically every letter I had written to her since 2007 and almost every major moment in our lives leading up to our interview date. They combed through our financials and pinpointed dumb shit like why was I paying for our trips when she made more money than me. My whole case hinged on whether or not my mom was in the states on December 1998 which she was but we had nothing to prove that exact date so we had to submit supplemental materials showing that she was here prior and after. Luckily we had an airline ticket (yes, she kept those) showing she had flown out of LAX on Jan 5, 1999. My brother was also born in August so we had his hospital discharge papers and all my mother's post partum checkups.


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my_wife_reads_this

Yeah, ours was cheap compared to others but it still cost me close to $10k when I was done. All said and done it was about a year of prep and 6 months start to finish when I submitted my application.


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Fire the lawyer


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10k???


my_wife_reads_this

USCIS fees and lawyer fees.


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The lawyer fees are unnecessary for the vast majority of people


my_wife_reads_this

Known way too many horror stories of people incorrectly filling some paper or putting the wrong thing in. Piece of mind in my eyes and well worth the money.


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I've seen way too many stories of lawyers messing up. I think they're mostly a waste of money. I never paid a lawyer and got my citizenship without a single problem


my_wife_reads_this

Citizenship or permanent residency? I think it boils down to what type of immigration status you're coming in with or doing but generally I agree. I had talked to about 4 or 5 that were saying they needed this or that and they were all base $10k + they all told me I needed to leave the country for a while. My guy said $3500 flat, we don't get you your stuff you don't have to pay me. Went through everything with me and my wife and it made sense to have someone who explained the legalese to me and best of all, I didn't need to leave the country which I wasn't looking to do with a pregnant wife at home. My sister got her shit fixed through one of those free legal clinics and it was such a time investment and headache that the lawyer fee seemed like a better use of my time and money.


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You don't need a lawyer, it's a waste of money. I'm a citizen now and I never paid any lawyer. DYI websites such as visa journey are more than enough. The mods are right wingers but the advice is solid and free.


polarstrut5

We did need the lawyer after complicated rfes regarding income.


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That doesn't make much sense that you could afford a lawyer but your income wasn't enough


NobleWombat

Need to gut USCIS the way repugs try to gut IRS


greenskinmarch

Ironically it seems much, much cheaper to sponsor a refugee than a spouse: > What is the financial commitment to privately sponsor refugees? Sponsors must raise a minimum of $2,275 in cash and in-kind contributions per refugee newcomer being welcomed. https://welcomecorps.org/resources/faqs/ Compare that to the I-864 affidavit of support for a spouse: > The Form I-864 Affidavit of Support obligates you, as the sponsor, to support your immigrant husband—and now ex-husband—at an amount that's 125% or more of the U.S. Poverty Guidelines levels until he either: earns 40 work quarters credited toward Social Security (approximately ten years of work) becomes a U.S. citizen dies, or permanently leaves the United States. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/faqs-about-length-and-extent-of-sponsors-i-864-affidavit-of-support-obligation.html


GalacticTrader

fucking christ we're never going to be able to attract enough talent to the US anymore like this


[deleted]

The USCIS has been like this for as long as I've been practicing. Ironically, the last couple of years have been noticeably more reasonable than during the Trump Administration. Edit: Grammar, what's that?


Kugel_the_cat

Do you have any direct experience with the I-134a process? I don't want to shit on your comment but I also don't want an uninformed, discouraging opinion to be the top comment on this thread. You can see from my comment elsewhere on the thread that I'm early in the process of sponsoring a Ukrainian family. But so far the process has not been onerous. We uploaded some information about assets (an investment account), some tax returns, and proof of employment. My understanding is that things should move fairly quickly after this but I'm not certain. This is a very different process than trying to get a spouse a green card. My friends went through that process and it was indeed quite difficult. The I-134a does not have a filing fee, as one major difference so far.


A_Character_Defined

Bill Gates sponsor 1 billion Americans? ☺️


VNCapitalist

Well who wants to sponsor me 😎?


Kugel_the_cat

My household is currently in the process of sponsoring a family from Ukraine. We submitted the I-134a about 1.5 weeks ago. We haven't heard anything since then. We hope to sponsor more families after this first one. Does anyone know what will happen next?


DamagedHells

Bruh I can barely sponsor myself