BIGGEST EXPENSES IN IMMIGRATION

[Marilyn. 340]

I think the useless lawyer fees were the most expensive and then the phone bills and numerous plane trips....

[pedroh 21]

the uscis fees I guess.. no lawyer, not a lot of plane tickets either.. and mucho alcohol

[almaty 19]

By far the biggest single expense has been my stepdaughter (now 22 years old). Don't ask! It's a long story and there is no ending.

When you marry the mama...the children come with the package.

so true, brother peejay...you marry the family

[Kevin and 10]

Airline Tix and Attorney fees.

[russ 1]

The wife's grad school tuition. Money well spent though.

[a-jeanne 2]

All this expenses makes Gary broke but we had to do what we gotta do..

1.) My annulment - its a 2 years procedures and it cost us $4000

2.)Plane ticket and its expenses - he makes 7 trips to Philippines

3.)Immigration lawyer- $2000

4.)Phone calls

5.) Medical , legal paperworks (passport,B/C,certified true copy etc..-for me and my son)

5.)USCIS fees

This sounds like a good commercial:

Immigration lawyer - $2000

Phone Calls - $1500

USCIS fees - $1000

Being with the one we love forever - PRICELESS!

[LuzyC 0]

Being with the one we love forever - PRICELESS!

:thumbs:

[Amby 490]

plane tickets

[Toshtishtash 1]

Plane tickets, definitely.

The biggest expense though, is still to come... Still not sure how we are going to manage that one... The $1010 for the AOS forms...

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

If you are a K applicant and would work normally it's got to be the income lost sat at home waiting for hte EAD to arrive

[Drew and Tik 0]

Now that I am back in the US- my husband spends a lot of money on alcohol.

a wise man

I drive him to drink

Wow, that's a good woman! Reminds me of a song by Blink 182.

I guess the USCIS fees will be a lot by the end of the process, but so are plane tickets and the biggest expense by far will probably be the wedding. I live in New York and my mom's family is Jewish, so even if I go with a ceremony/reception that she considers slightly on the "quaint/cheap" side, it will still run me well over $10,000 I'm thinking.

Phone cards are a very minor expense, even though we talk on the phone almost everyday, a few times a week at least. We use MSN and AIM more than the phone and the phone cards only cost $2 on my side and 5 baht per minute on her side.

[Ladylethal 12]

To us was USCIS fees and plane tickets (6 trips before the final one to move here). We didn't use calling cards much as we either chatted on MSN or talked on Skype.

[msu17 0]

Biggest expense = the wedding

After that plane tickets and then fees...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I think the two trips - one of them to include the wedding - were the biggest tickets on our journey. But that's just money - one of the things in life that seems to kind of come and go. The marriage we have as a result and the sweet fruit it has born thus far is here to stay and really can't be measured in dollars and cents.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Without a doubt airfare this far. Phone bills don't even come remotely close. How are you people talking so expensively in this day and age of cheap calling cards and VOIP? I pay less than $10 each month so I've paid less than $500 in 4 years on calls.