Hey there everyone,

Just wanted to let anyone who let it get down to the wire with the fee rise know that they may get a call from their embassy. Or maybe its just us. We put off filing the I130 with the Dublin embassy because we were waiting for a letter acknowledging our withdrawal of previous I130 with the USCIS. When we had not received such a letter, we mailed our application on July 27th(dublin only accepts applications by mail), since the USCIS said the application only had to be postmarked by the 30th to beat the fee increase. I just received a call this morning from the embassy telling me that they need the rest of the fee. I told her that the i130 was sent on the 27th, before the required post mark date. she said that maybe thats ok in america, but as of the 30th their cash machines have been updated to the increased fee, and they cant process an application for less than $355. she wouldnt put a supervisor on, said there was nothing they could do because the cash machine would not accept it. No where on the embassy's website does it state that the I130 must be RECIEVED before the 30th. which in fact ours was(on saturday the 28th), she said it would have had to have gotten there on the friday before, the 27th. That the fee increase applies to when they put them in to be processed, not when they are received. She wouldnt even tell me where i could file a complaint, jsut said there was nothing we could do about it, and they couldnt process our application until we send in the rest of the fee. she did however tell me that we are lucky to be able to file through the embassy, since it can take several years to process in the us. Since i already knew that, and it is the reason we cancelled our previous i129f and 130, we of course will dutifully send in the extra money. But man this immigration stuff sure seems to be turning into a big money pit. So there we are. hopefully it is just dublin and no one else will have to deal with this. just needed to vent.

WOW I would be upsad about that too, that isn't fair sorry to hear that