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2011-06-15 04:53 PM
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emThe current fee of $330 to apply for citizenship would rise to slightly less than $600, an administration official said. Other fee increases are possible for green cards conveying legal residency, which now cost $325. Applicants also now pay a $70 fingerprinting fee in each case. Fees also are paid for things such as work permits, replacing lost green cards and petitions to adopt orphans from other countries/embr /
--excerpted from 2007 newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/31/83607.shtml/p
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emGreen card application fees will increase from $930 to $985, while certain temporary legal status application fees will go from $710 to $1,130. Most applicants have to wait long periods to actually enter the U.S. mdash; if they are allowed entry at all mdash; even after shelling out the $985 fee./embr /
--excerpted from 9/27/10 story in washingtonindependent.com/p
p emStarting July 30th {2011}. immigrant and non-immigrant applicants and petitioners needing paperwork must pay the new fees. Services affected by the price change is the application for naturalization which currently cost $330 will be $595...Green cards will cost $930 plus $80 dollars {fingerprinting goes up $10...}. The new total cost is $1,010/em.br /
--excerpted from Wednesday, June 15, 2011 story on KBTX.com/p
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Many who have gone to space have said the obvious:nbsp; there are no borders.nbsp; Coastlines don#39;t even count, not when you have people living on island nations close to larger land masses like North or South American,nbsp; Australia, etc.nbsp; Borders are imaginary friends, they don#39;t exist, and all attempts to label people from outside a line on a map as alien or illegal are cruel, ridiculous and stupid./p
p Everyone tries to make the process of becoming a citizen as difficult as possible.nbsp; The French use their deep history and language as barriers and challenges to those simply seeking a better life.nbsp; Amerikkka is no different.nbsp;/p
p Bet on kkkapitalists to make money making aliens into resident aliens and then into citizens.nbsp; The cost of becoming an Amerikkkan went up in 2004 as a somewhat direct consequence of September 11, 2001, when fear of foreigners hit an all-time high and anyone wearing a turban or any other religion-based head-gear got stared at or assaulted for being visibly different.nbsp; The cost went up again in 2007, when I first paid attention to the stunning true monetary cost involved in becoming a citizen of this crazy country./p
p POOR Magazine#39;s Angel Garcia, speaking at the first 2011 Summer PeopleSkool Thursday afternoon class, said that it cost a total of $10,000 for him to help his family gain citizenship.nbsp; POOR Magazine reportera Theresa Molina said something similar./p
p While looking up the information about the costs, which shocked me in 2007, I came across the June 15th, 2011 story quoted above.nbsp; There are other costs incurred, which are difficult to track down--unless you are someone who wants to be a citizen.nbsp; You find out about them all too quickly and painfully.nbsp; Citizenship should not cost so much.nbsp;/p
p For sheer practicality, making citizenship a faster, less costly process makes the people going through the process happier about becoming a citizen--and it makes their official payment of taxes, from the work that they do and the things that they buy buy buy (like the rest of us stuck in this insane system) happen faster and last longer than it does the way things are done now./p
p Whatever the green card costs, whatever the fingerprinting costs, whatever anything costs, the true cost is injuries to the soul of the person seeking citizenship, and damage to the souls of those of us who were born here and allow these things to be done in our name./p
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