On Legal Immigration

[BT]

MORE: On legal immigration, a reader emails:

    I?m a professor in California and my wife holds a masters degree in accounting. We?ve already spent thousands getting work permits. We?re now in the process of applying for green cards ? they?ve make it so complicated you can?t reasonably do it without legal help, and all up (legal fees plus government filing fees), it?s costing us over $9000 for my wife and I to apply for Green Cards. On July 30th, they?re increasing the filing fees. Currently it?s $940 for me and $740 for my wife. Come August, it?ll cost $2200 for the main applicant and $1725 for the spouse. On top of that, they wouldn?t let me pay tax as a married person until I?d been in the country for 10 months, so not only was there no ?tax amnesty? for me, I was in fact paying more taxes than an American in the same position. I find Americans are always shocked when I tell them how much it is costing us. It seems like every few months they make it more difficult for people who want to do it legally.

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This probably needs to be looked at.

[Universe Prince]

This probably needs to be looked at.

Ya think?

[BT]

This probably needs to be looked at.

Ya think?

Wouldn't have said so otherwise.

[Universe Prince]

I was being sarcastic. I've been trying for some time to argue that we've made legal immigration too difficult. But no one seems to care.