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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19236)	5/22/2002 4:04:37 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Premium processing is called 'grease' and it is nothing more than graft, It's an official INS fee since 1 July 2001. You can check on their website. Otherwise they take 4-5 months to do it. With the fee they do it in 1 month. $A300 is the cost you pay to the consulate here for issuing the visa. $US130 goes to INS. Strangely NY Dept of Labor and US Dept of Labor don't charge anything. Phoen call to US consulate here costs $A11 on your credit card or phone a 1-900 number to pay by the minute LOL.. No bribes here at all. All official fees. A couple of hundred bucks would be reasonable. After all getting an Aussie passport costs $A120 for example. I now see, from your corresopondence, that the degradation of the American bureaucracy into fully depraved corruption seems to be fully bloomed. God help this world. I think we have reached the tipping point into total depravity. People here are universally shocked when they hear about the $US1000 premium processing fee. The moving budget I was given by RPI looked good till they told me I had to pay for the visa out of it :) I'll try to get them to cough up the extra $US1000 which is just so I can start work when they want not for me to move to America. After I get to the US I will then apply for immigration which I presume will be at least as expensive. Last time I was in the US I was on a J-1 visa (visiting scholar). Can't remember paying anything (could have been $50 or something, no lawyer but took about 6 months till I got it finally. David

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