Gamboli

1 hour ago, missileman said:

Emergency care is guaranteed by law.

" The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that requires anyone coming to an emergency department to be stabilized and treated, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay, but since its enactment in 1986 has remained an unfunded mandate. "

That is fine. But I think this could be addressed fairly easily to reduce some of the misuse. 

The creditor, in this case the healthcare provider still gets information such as your Social Security, etc at the time of admission. After the treatment they usually ask for your health insurance, etc. It could be included so that they could verify the patient identity, and send the bill to their address, if the bill is not paid after certain time, they could find the people who sponsor them like their children, etc. (The debt collectors in some case could even collect from family members if you can't pay, this shouldn't be any different)

I was under the impression that collection agencies can technically collect from immediate relatives of an individual in debt. I remember reading stories about how two siblings were harassed by creditors after their father passed away. (This story is not immigration-related)

I'm a little surprised that no one actually fact checked the report by the Cato institute. I seen a few inaccuracies. 

Here is the actual bill if you're interested:

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/files/documents/170801_New_RAISE_Act_One_Pager_FINAL.pdf

6 minutes ago, Beast7 said:

Not really.

 Western parents bring a lot of their fortune here after immigrating and spend it here.

What do you mean by Western parents?

5 minutes ago, cyclone27 said:

The reality is the tax payer ends up covering the costs.

How? If you sponsor someone you're technically giving the government assurance that those individuals don't become a public charge. If they do become a public charge then the government should go after the sponsors. This will make sponsors think twice before sponsoring anyone in the first place.

Requiring people to purchase insurance prior to the travel to the U.S. and maintaining it throughout their stay is another solution. 

13 hours ago, cyclone27 said:

Again who is going to pay the medical costs of non working immigrant parents?

The person who sponsors them. 

I hope all goes well, but I'm afraid you bought yourselves bunch of trouble. 

Today is the anniversary of my PD  

I know that this is not related to what OP is asking, but I never understood why people would risk their lives, cross the border and move to a country where they can't work and live legally. This really limits the options that they have available. Decades ago it might have been different, but what type of high-income job an illegal immigrant could find to help them achieve the American dream? But maybe it's because I'm living in an ivory tower or something, regardless it doesn't make any sense to me. 

I believe NVC is also fee based. However, due to the fact that visa bulletin updates are done prior to sending the Welcome Letter and initiation of the second step of the process by the petitioner, I'm afraid this part of the process going to be affected by the shutdown. It might not affect the people who already received their Welcome Letter that much, but if the Visa Bulletin does not move, and we kinda know that USCIS look at the second chart before processing F2As it might have some impacts. In any case, I hope this doesn't affect anyone here.

41 minutes ago, remyfk said:

@Gamboli....what government shutdown? What are you talking about?!! Where did you read that? Could you please share the link?

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/shutdown-politics-latest/index.html

Could this potential government shutdown affect processing of the applications? I read that USCIS will still process the applications, but if NVC stops processing the applicants USCIS might also stop processing further applications. Anyone knows anything? @Michael2017

My PD is January 24th 2017, in about a week or so it's going to be exactly one year since I got the NOA1, but I'm still seeing people with 2016 PDs not approved. Honestly this shouldn't be this hard. /sigh

I know that we still have to wait for the bulletin to become current, but it'd be nice to see some movement at least.  

3 hours ago, Michael2017 said:

Hi Guys,

 

After I got NO2 on November 9th, I got an email today, after 8 weeks, that NVC received my file, and that it will take 4-5 weeks for them to process it and send me a case number to start. This means, for F2A from California, No2 to NVC case number is 12-13 weeks. I have the feeling that F2A petitions are also slowed down here as CR1 and K1 have far less time from NO2 to NVC case number assigned. 

Hi Michael! I'm so glad that you got your NVC response. Please don't forget about us and still keep us updated. You're the most informed person on this forum.