Do you know how a person becomes a legal citizen?

[LnGrrrR]

lmao.... Seriously?

I know people who pay about 3k tops... I guess it depends on the lawyer.


and people pay for working visas about 350 or so... there's a lot of exageration being thrown around.

If you had taken out the lawyer numbers, it would be around 2700 roughly.

And if you don't believe me, just go to the USCIS website... they have all the cost of the forms there. Pretty easy to tell if I'm "exagerating" or not.

[LnGrrrR]

Your clearance won't cost you a dime and it just might be that hard. I've seen 'em take quite a while, over a year, sometimes two. Sometimes not. Depends what kind, how old you are, how much you screwed up in life or not.

Well, the biggest thing is that when they did my clearance, I didn't have to collect all the information!

Thankfully mine was never delayed more than six months, but I've seen some people wait for over a year for theirs.

[ElNono]

lmao.... Seriously?

I know people who pay about 3k tops... I guess it depends on the lawyer.


and people pay for working visas about 350 or so... there's a lot of exageration being thrown around.

What? Go take a look at the USCIS site. Prices are there. (LINK)
I went through a H1B work visa, including extension and now residency.
The residency form alone is over $1K (I-485)...

I probably filed about 5 different forms in 10 years...

[Wild Cobra]

Biometrics verification is done by merely sticking your thumb in a portable reader and looking at a camera. Done it plenty of times when coming in from overseas.

What these guys do is a full set of fingerprints + photo every time. I'm pretty sure it's for archival. I'm also pretty sure that the company that received the contract to do this is doing quite well...

I'll bet the requirements by law don't get updated as technology does. So many things can be changed, but ever try to make non-political common-sense changes in such a large bureaucracy? I've worked for a couple large corporations, and work for a pretty large employer now. Practical changes almost take an act of God.

[LnGrrrR]

I'll bet the requirements by law don't get updated as technology does. So many things can be changed, but ever try to make non-political common-sense changes in such a large bureaucracy? I've worked for a couple large corporations, and work for a pretty large employer now. Practical changes almost take an act of God.

Eh, I bet it's more of a "show of security" measure as you postulated earlier... Plus, it's more money in the govenments pocket. They have to pay for that equipment somehow... Although at 80 bucks a screening, they must be expensive machines!