Gigli2008

Did you guys hear about the IV fee decreasing? It's coming a little late for us

I think it is hard for new-to-the-thread posters to know about the 1st and 2nd post on a long thread like this one. 200 pages and counting. When one stumbles upon this thread it's usually at the tail end of the thread/conversation.

I am sorry you got offended by a very harmless question. There are people who marry for greencards, that is a fact. I just wanted to eliminate that possibility before really answering your question. Because if you say you are marrying for a greencard, then I, as well as any responsible VJ member will not respond to your question.

Something to think about. The OP has stated over and over again that he has family that has successfully married first cousin in Jordan and gone through the immigration process in Texas and continued to live in Houston.

Is she your girlfriend or are you marrying her for a greencard? I asked because you called her "a US citizen girl" instead of something like "my US citizen girlfriend". Just know that if you are marrying her for a green-card, you might not get the green-card.

I am sorry you got offended by a very harmless question. There are people who marry for greencards, that is a fact. I just wanted to eliminate that possibility before really answering your question. Because if you say you are marrying for a greencard, then I, as well as any responsible VJ member will not respond to your question.

Is she your girlfriend or are you marrying her for a greencard? I asked because you called her "a US citizen girl" instead of something like "my US citizen girlfriend". Just know that if you are marrying her for a green-card, you might not get the green-card.

Please don't get offended so easily. Not everybody is knowledgeable of your culture, so it is an opportunity for all of us to get educated on your culture. I don't think Harpa Timsah was trying to "diss" you. He/She just pointed out what they thought was the case in Texas. If someone is wrong, please correct them without getting offended so that all of us can benefit from this forum.
Thanks,

I am sorry you got offended by a very harmless question. There are people who marry for greencards, that is a fact. I just wanted to eliminate that possibility before really answering your question. Because if you say you are marrying for a greencard, then I, as well as any responsible VJ member will not respond to your question.

Is she your girlfriend or are you marrying her for a greencard? I asked because you called her "a US citizen girl" instead of something like "my US citizen girlfriend". Just know that if you are marrying her for a green-card, you might not get the green-card.

Please don't get offended so easily. Not everybody is knowledgeable of your culture, so it is an opportunity for all of us to get educated on your culture. I don't think Harpa Timsah was trying to "diss" you. He/She just pointed out what they thought was the case in Texas. If someone is wrong, please correct them without getting offended so that all of us can benefit from this forum.
Thanks,

So you don't want your parents to be able to file for/help your sister? Is her being single and 23 the problem? I'm just getting some weird vibe from you. I hate to say this but I see men in the ME and Muslim countries not very fair to their women. I hope I am very very wrong about this about you (assuming you are a man). And I wish I would say, it is none of my business and stop butting my nose. But (regardless of whether you are a man or woman) if you have issues with your sister because she does not toe your line/ or does not see eye to eye, but her own father is willing to file for her, then you should let HIM deal with her. File for your father. What he does with his daughter, you can wash your hands and have nothing to do with her at that point. But trying to deny your father something because it may subsequently benefit your sister paints a not so good picture of you.

So you don't want your parents to be able to file for/help your sister? Is her being single and 23 the problem? I'm just getting some weird vibe from you. I hate to say this but I see men in the ME and Muslim countries not very fair to their women. I hope I am very very wrong about this about you (assuming you are a man). And I wish I would say, it is none of my business and stop butting my nose. But (regardless of whether you are a man or woman) if you have issues with your sister because she does not toe your line/ or does not see eye to eye, but her own father is willing to file for her, then you should let HIM deal with her. File for your father. What he does with his daughter, you can wash your hands and have nothing to do with her at that point. But trying to deny your father something because it may subsequently benefit your sister paints a not so good picture of you.

So you don't want your parents to be able to file for/help your sister? Is her being single and 23 the problem? I'm just getting some weird vibe from you. I hate to say this but I see men in the ME and Muslim countries not very fair to their women. I hope I am very very wrong about this about you (assuming you are a man). And I wish I would say, it is none of my business and stop butting my nose. But (regardless of whether you are a man or woman) if you have issues with your sister because she does not toe your line/ or does not see eye to eye, but her own father is willing to file for her, then you should let HIM deal with her. File for your father. What he does with his daughter, you can wash your hands and have nothing to do with her at that point. But trying to deny your father something because it may subsequently benefit your sister paints a not so good picture of you.

So you don't want your parents to be able to file for/help your sister? Is her being single and 23 the problem? I'm just getting some weird vibe from you. I hate to say this but I see men in the ME and Muslim countries not very fair to their women. I hope I am very very wrong about this about you (assuming you are a man). And I wish I would say, it is none of my business and stop butting my nose. But (regardless of whether you are a man or woman) if you have issues with your sister because she does not toe your line/ or does not see eye to eye, but her own father is willing to file for her, then you should let HIM deal with her. File for your father. What he does with his daughter, you can wash your hands and have nothing to do with her at that point. But trying to deny your father something because it may subsequently benefit your sister paints a not so good picture of you.

Both of you are lucky in that it's a short distance to Canada, and he, as an American can cross over as many times as he wishes, and cheaply too. I don't know how many people here can say the same. Cost of Airfare alone is a deterrent for multiple visits to see their spouse. You guys can see each other every month if you so wished.
All in all, I am happy for you. Best wishes on your journey.

Both of you are lucky in that it's a short distance to Canada, and he, as an American can cross over as many times as he wishes, and cheaply too. I don't know how many people here can say the same. Cost of Airfare alone is a deterrent for multiple visits to see their spouse. You guys can see each other every month if you so wished.
All in all, I am happy for you. Best wishes on your journey.

So you don't want your parents to be able to file for/help your sister? Is her being single and 23 the problem? I'm just getting some weird vibe from you. I hate to say this but I see men in the ME and Muslim countries not very fair to their women. I hope I am very very wrong about this about you (assuming you are a man). And I wish I would say, it is none of my business and stop butting my nose. But (regardless of whether you are a man or woman) if you have issues with your sister because she does not toe your line/ or does not see eye to eye, but her own father is willing to file for her, then you should let HIM deal with her. File for your father. What he does with his daughter, you can wash your hands and have nothing to do with her at that point. But trying to deny your father something because it may subsequently benefit your sister paints a not so good picture of you.

Take a look at the restrictions and things that have become illegal to do in the last 40 years. Big Government stealing our liberty one act at a time.
For example. kids today are not grouped by their cognitive abilities like they were in days past. Because they will be stigmatized because they are put together in the 'dumb kids class' or other nonsense, (instead of viewing it as the kids are at this level and are taught at this particular pace), so now the kids are disbursed into the regular classroom and the teacher is forced to teach at the LCD (lowest common denominator) pace to the benefit of that one child at the expense of the rest. Our education schools have nose dived in direct relation to the implementation of this feel good philosophy. (google it! - there i quoted Rosie for you).

The example you give below on "Big Government" is pure hogwash. Basically you are repeating talking points without really understanding the implications. BTW "Big government" is not the cause of poor performance in schools. There is something wrong with the school system, and it's not "Big Government". "Big Government" is just a catch-phrase that people throw out willy nilly. The problem with the schools nowadays is teacher training, education management, and lack of student & parental responsibility.
People should start paying attention and not wait for media to brainwash them. And this goes both ways, liberals or conservatives.
1. Jobs have been outsourced to other countries to the detriment of the American people and yet people don't blame the people who caused this to happen because of another catch-phrase, "free enterprise" that people don't fully understand.
2. More and more prisons have been privatized causing more tax payer money to be funneled into the hands of the people who own these prisons. http://www.correctionsproject.com/corrections/pris_priv.htm
3. The free enterprise and anti-"big government" crowd has been misinformed into thinking that less regulation is what big pharma, banks, insurance companies etc., need to bring this country back into prosperity while, right in front of their noses, during the longest time of less regulations these same companies were the cause of recession and near depression and the downward spiral of said prosperity.
4. Now the free enterprise and anti-"big government" crowd has been led to believe that privatising Social Security, Medicare & Public School Education is what the country needs to thrive while they fail to realize that Social Security, Medicare and Public School Education dollars are essentially tax payer dollars, and their costs should not be tied to share holders needs. http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/privatization-of-public-education/
And if privatized, Social Security, Medicare and Education dollars will be given to these private institutions to manage, which will only guarantee that they get rich off the tax payer dollar (driven by share holder greed) while not really giving any better Benefits or Education.
Privatization essentially turns tax payer contributions into a for-profit enterprise. And as you know, even great enteprises can fail....it is the nature of business....so what happens if these private institutions claim that business was bad this year and sorry, we no longer have your money.
5. Same old, Same old story. Banks looted the american people of their money by doing shoddy practices in mortgage lending and using tax payer dollars as collateral. Both parties were to blame for allowing this to happen. Health Insurance companies have fought to keep the status quo, so they can keep looting the american people off their premium money, while not really providing care that is comensurate to the premiums that tax payers pay or that doctors get paid. Is it a wonder then that Medicare currently has a 3-5% Administration overhead because it is not a private entity while the "free enterprise" health insurance companies have a 17 - 35% on Administrative cost alone. What happens when Medicare becomes privatized.....the needs of the shareholder will trump the needs of the beneficiary or the doctor who gets paid. That is what drives the cost of health insurance up. Doctors have no problem with the amount they get from Medicare for seeing medicare patients, and they get roughly the same amount from private health insurance. The difference is, Medicare has no shareholders demanding millions of dollars in earnings while private insurance is driven by shareholder needs for those millions in earnings. So in order for the insurance companies to meet the shareholder demands, they drive up the cost in premiums, gives the same amount as Medicare to the doctors and pay themselves huge amounts in salaries and give the rest to share holders.
6. And now those that cry free enterprise the loudest ask... where can we get more tax payer money?, SS, Medicare, Public School Education, instutitons that are still funded by tax payers. Please, people do not allow your tax dollars to go to private institutions that the government would outsource its functions to.
Why can't we all be independent thinkers. The power of having access to the internet should ensure that every one of us can research for themselves and separate politically biased talking points from reality.
This country is going to ruin because the american people are lazy and believe everything that the media tells them to. They shout "big government" this and the other and the next day their viewers have the term "big government" coined in their vocabulary. The media says "death panels" and the next day their viewers have those exact words flying in their every conversation. Comeon, be original. Evaluate the facts and come up with your own opinion.

At least 50,000 greencard lottery winners come to the US every year without showing proof of how they will be supported financially. The only thing you are required to have after winning the green card lottery is not how you are going to survive, but what address you are going to. It makes no sense that 50,000 people are allowed every year to come to the US without showing how they will survive but husbands and wives who try to join them later have to prove how they will survive on their spouses incomes.
My now friend won the greencard lottery in 2005. She did not know anyone in the US, but friends of friends found someone who she could use their address when she arrived at POE. Now she is trying to bring her husband she married in 2008 and her minimum wage is not good enough to bring her husband. Yet zero dollars was good for the US when she came in 2005.

Take a look at the restrictions and things that have become illegal to do in the last 40 years. Big Government stealing our liberty one act at a time.
For example. kids today are not grouped by their cognitive abilities like they were in days past. Because they will be stigmatized because they are put together in the 'dumb kids class' or other nonsense, (instead of viewing it as the kids are at this level and are taught at this particular pace), so now the kids are disbursed into the regular classroom and the teacher is forced to teach at the LCD (lowest common denominator) pace to the benefit of that one child at the expense of the rest. Our education schools have nose dived in direct relation to the implementation of this feel good philosophy. (google it! - there i quoted Rosie for you).

The example you give below on "Big Government" is pure hogwash. Basically you are repeating talking points without really understanding the implications. BTW "Big government" is not the cause of poor performance in schools. There is something wrong with the school system, and it's not "Big Government". "Big Government" is just a catch-phrase that people throw out willy nilly. The problem with the schools nowadays is teacher training, education management, and lack of student & parental responsibility.
People should start paying attention and not wait for media to brainwash them. And this goes both ways, liberals or conservatives.
1. Jobs have been outsourced to other countries to the detriment of the American people and yet people don't blame the people who caused this to happen because of another catch-phrase, "free enterprise" that people don't fully understand.
2. More and more prisons have been privatized causing more tax payer money to be funneled into the hands of the people who own these prisons. http://www.correctionsproject.com/corrections/pris_priv.htm
3. The free enterprise and anti-"big government" crowd has been misinformed into thinking that less regulation is what big pharma, banks, insurance companies etc., need to bring this country back into prosperity while, right in front of their noses, during the longest time of less regulations these same companies were the cause of recession and near depression and the downward spiral of said prosperity.
4. Now the free enterprise and anti-"big government" crowd has been led to believe that privatising Social Security, Medicare & Public School Education is what the country needs to thrive while they fail to realize that Social Security, Medicare and Public School Education dollars are essentially tax payer dollars, and their costs should not be tied to share holders needs. http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/privatization-of-public-education/
And if privatized, Social Security, Medicare and Education dollars will be given to these private institutions to manage, which will only guarantee that they get rich off the tax payer dollar (driven by share holder greed) while not really giving any better Benefits or Education.
Privatization essentially turns tax payer contributions into a for-profit enterprise. And as you know, even great enteprises can fail....it is the nature of business....so what happens if these private institutions claim that business was bad this year and sorry, we no longer have your money.
5. Same old, Same old story. Banks looted the american people of their money by doing shoddy practices in mortgage lending and using tax payer dollars as collateral. Both parties were to blame for allowing this to happen. Health Insurance companies have fought to keep the status quo, so they can keep looting the american people off their premium money, while not really providing care that is comensurate to the premiums that tax payers pay or that doctors get paid. Is it a wonder then that Medicare currently has a 3-5% Administration overhead because it is not a private entity while the "free enterprise" health insurance companies have a 17 - 35% on Administrative cost alone. What happens when Medicare becomes privatized.....the needs of the shareholder will trump the needs of the beneficiary or the doctor who gets paid. That is what drives the cost of health insurance up. Doctors have no problem with the amount they get from Medicare for seeing medicare patients, and they get roughly the same amount from private health insurance. The difference is, Medicare has no shareholders demanding millions of dollars in earnings while private insurance is driven by shareholder needs for those millions in earnings. So in order for the insurance companies to meet the shareholder demands, they drive up the cost in premiums, gives the same amount as Medicare to the doctors and pay themselves huge amounts in salaries and give the rest to share holders.
6. And now those that cry free enterprise the loudest ask... where can we get more tax payer money?, SS, Medicare, Public School Education, instutitons that are still funded by tax payers. Please, people do not allow your tax dollars to go to private institutions that the government would outsource its functions to.
Why can't we all be independent thinkers. The power of having access to the internet should ensure that every one of us can research for themselves and separate politically biased talking points from reality.
This country is going to ruin because the american people are lazy and believe everything that the media tells them to. They shout "big government" this and the other and the next day their viewers have the term "big government" coined in their vocabulary. The media says "death panels" and the next day their viewers have those exact words flying in their every conversation. Comeon, be original. Evaluate the facts and come up with your own opinion.

At least 50,000 greencard lottery winners come to the US every year without showing proof of how they will be supported financially. The only thing you are required to have after winning the green card lottery is not how you are going to survive, but what address you are going to. It makes no sense that 50,000 people are allowed every year to come to the US without showing how they will survive but husbands and wives who try to join them later have to prove how they will survive on their spouses incomes.
My now friend won the greencard lottery in 2005. She did not know anyone in the US, but friends of friends found someone who she could use their address when she arrived at POE. Now she is trying to bring her husband she married in 2008 and her minimum wage is not good enough to bring her husband. Yet zero dollars was good for the US when she came in 2005.

At least 50,000 greencard lottery winners come to the US every year without showing proof of how they will be supported financially. The only thing you are required to have after winning the green card lottery is not how you are going to survive, but what address you are going to. It makes no sense that 50,000 people are allowed every year to come to the US without showing how they will survive but husbands and wives who try to join them later have to prove how they will survive on their spouses incomes.
My now friend won the greencard lottery in 2005. She did not know anyone in the US, but friends of friends found someone who she could use their address when she arrived at POE. Now she is trying to bring her husband she married in 2008 and her minimum wage is not good enough to bring her husband. Yet zero dollars was good for the US when she came in 2005.

I happen to work for a medical group in North Texas area. We have many doctors who trained out of the country, so here is the process. All physicians who've trained out of the country (with the exeption of Canada and some UK and few European Countries) have to repeat their Internship and Residency here in the US before ability to get licensed and work in the US.
And, before one can be admitted to a US Internship/Residency (1 year Internship and 2 - 4 years Residency depending on Specialty, eg., Internal Medicine 1yr Internship and 2 years Residency BUT OB/Gyn 1 year Internship and 4 years Residency, General Surgery 5 years Residency etc.,) Before this Internship/Residency admission, a foreign medical graduate (regardless of how many years they've practiced in their country) have to undergo an equivalency exam by ECFMG (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. This may take 1 to 3 years depending on how fast you get your stuff in order. Like all US graduates this involves exams for USMLE 1, 2 and 3 (United States Medical Licensing Exam) and an additional English Proficiency test.
After you complete ECFMG (USMLE Exams) then you can apply for Internship & Residency (minimum 3 years depending on specialty) After completing Residency then you can decide which state you want to work in and send in your State Licensing Application which also has exams. It takes roughly 4 - 6 months to obtain a license in Texas (I don't know about other states)
Therefore, you are looking for at least 6 years to start working as a doctor if you are a foreign medical graduate.

Clarification. My natural born son was born abroad. I am a naturalized USC. So I have to file an I-130 in order to bring my son here. The way I understand it, I can file an N-600 for him if he and I live together for 6 months or more. But he has to get here on a visa or petition first before he can qualify for citizenship under me.