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US citizenship gets costly
published: Thursday | February 1, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody Q4HiA="true">
WASHINGTON (AP):
The <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Bush </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">administration</SPAN> is proposing to nearly double the cost of becoming a citizen of the United States and drastically raise the cost of becoming a legal permanent resident.
<SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Citizenship</SPAN> and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, yesterday announced that it wants to raise the application fee for citizenship from US$330 (J$22,110) to US$595 (J$39,865). It wants the fee for becoming a legal permanent resident to move from US$180 (J$12,000) to US$1,370 (J$91,790).
Improved service
"As a fee-based agency we must be able to recover the cost necessary to administer an efficient and secure <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">immigration</SPAN> system that ultimately improves service delivery, prevents future backlogs, closes <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">security</SPAN> gaps and furthers our modernisation efforts," said Emilio Gonzalez, CIS director.
The agency said the new fees would reduce average application processing times by the end of September 2009.
Fees for a
published: Thursday | February 1, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody Q4HiA="true">
WASHINGTON (AP):
The <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Bush </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">administration</SPAN> is proposing to nearly double the cost of becoming a citizen of the United States and drastically raise the cost of becoming a legal permanent resident.
<SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Citizenship</SPAN> and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, yesterday announced that it wants to raise the application fee for citizenship from US$330 (J$22,110) to US$595 (J$39,865). It wants the fee for becoming a legal permanent resident to move from US$180 (J$12,000) to US$1,370 (J$91,790).
Improved service
"As a fee-based agency we must be able to recover the cost necessary to administer an efficient and secure <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">immigration</SPAN> system that ultimately improves service delivery, prevents future backlogs, closes <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">security</SPAN> gaps and furthers our modernisation efforts," said Emilio Gonzalez, CIS director.
The agency said the new fees would reduce average application processing times by the end of September 2009.
Fees for a