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a public charge?! HAHAHAHAHA, as opposed to ALL the Americans that are public charges. oh yeah, let's all one day get up in the morning and say, "hey, lets just do what so many Americans already do and sit at home, watch tv, and wait for a monthly check so we can live off other peoples money." I DONT THINK SO!!! also, while we're waiting to AOS in those 10 years, wont OUR tax money go to support those AMERICANS on welfare and what not?? moving on... $2000 seems reasonable. I mean, now that most of us have jobs and fingers crossed will still have jobs within the waiting time. i would be more interesting in seeing how much the application fee is going to be. along with any other applications we're going to need to file as well.

Menina, I totally understand your frustration and believe, you, me...I share it with all my heart...I also want to travel and visit, and blah blah However, I would not mind waiting a couple more years, as long as I am able to work without any fear whatsoever...I would settle with a Permanent Residency with a ban to travel to Colombia for a couple of years...I don't mind at all... I just want to see some significant progress being made in the Hill...Enough is enough! Also, Rubio is full of shit! He doesn't know what a particular immigrant goes through...Cubans, although they are immigrants themselves, are the outliers...the exceptions to the rule...Wet Feet, Dry Feet allows them to be naturalized in about a year, as stated in the article and the law itself...So, I just want the media to stop highlighting his Cuban background, and I want to hear someone who genuinely understands what all of us go through... It would be awesome if we got the same treatment as the immigrants coming into Ellis Island did back in late 19th - early 20th century...Stamp, sign, welcome and go!

I am still waiting to see what news there are in regards to travelling outside the country. I am very happy it is going to be only 2,000 per person, and not 2,000 every years we havent paid taxes, as was said a month or so ago. I just want to travel and see my family, that is all, I can work to support myself, and so can thousands of Americans living on welfare. Seriously now, we don't get anything and still pay taxes? We better get extra fucking taxes back at the end of the year then, cause this is seriously ridiculous. No words to explain the frustration it causes me to see Rubio all up in his high horse making decisions for people who he has no idea in what conditions of life they live under. Seriously, goddamn it! The reason immigrants flee their country, sometimes in fear for their own lives, it is not to be a couch potato like Honey Boo Boo's family ok, it is to work, the exact freaking opposite of what welfare people do. I think they are scared that their 400 dollars checks won't come anymore if all the illegals get rights, you know, they think we are probably going to join them in milking off the government. I just want to go see my mother people!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple of thoughts... The $2,000 fine ($500 application + $1,500) is not unreasonable, nor punitive and I would be glad to pay the amount. However, I don't like the fact that we would have to wait 10 years to get a Green Card, and 3 additional ones to receive citizenship...I wonder if we would be allowed to pay the fine and apply for a Green Card and get it faster than having to wait the 10 years, or if it didn't matter because they would make us wait anyway... My understanding from the article is that if the thresholds of border control are met in 10 years, we would be allowed to apply for a Green Card...So, what if the measures are met earlier? what if they are surpassed? Will there be a direct relationship between border control and performance and Green Card eligibility? In regards to the benefits, I do not mind if we are not eligible for them...we have been able to live without them (albeit some may be more burdened than others), so I would not mind not having them (personal opinion)... What I would like to see, though, is their approach towards us...Nowhere in the article (I did not see the interviews) do they describe how Dreamers stand to benefit from the overhaul...would we be allowed to apply for a green card significantly faster? If so, how fast? I assume that we will also have to pay the fine...How much will it be? Is the $2,000 fine standardized across the board, or would we have to pay more? Less? Let us see how things unfold in the next couple of days, and their specific language...not that rhetorical BS by which The Hill is infamous for...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Unauthorized immigrants may have to pay $2,000 as part of a bipartisan U.S. immigration reform plan, a person familiar with the talks told The New York Times. The fee, whose amount was not finalized but which would have to be paid before an immigrant could earn legal status, would include $500 when the person applies for a temporary work permit and $1,500 or so that the person would have 10 years to pay, before they apply for a green card, the person said. A Senate aide described the $2,000 figure to the Times as "significant but not impossible, punitive but not unreasonable." Democrats and immigration advocates had earlier pushed for a lower amount. The fees, reported Monday, came a day after Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., dismissed colleagues' fears the immigration overhaul that awards citizenship to people in the United States illegally would amount to amnesty. "It's not amnesty because you pay serious consequences for having violated the law," the first-term senator and possible 2016 presidential contender told NBC's "Meet the Press." The measure would boost the number of taxpaying Americans and be a "net positive for the country economically, now and in the future," Rubio told "Fox News Sunday" in one of seven Sunday talk show interviews he did on the five major networks, plus the Spanish-language Telemundo and Univision networks. The measure -- expected to be unveiled by Rubio and seven other senators of both parties as early as Tuesday -- calls for unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the United States on or before Dec. 31, 2011, to be allowed almost immediately to apply for temporary legal status that would let them live and work in the country. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security would be required to monitor the nation's entire southwest border with Mexico -- and catch 90 percent of people trying to cross the border illegally, said Rubio, a member of the so-called Gang of Eight senators. "We are going to get the toughest enforcement measures in the history of this country," he told ABC's "This Week." In addition, the senators' plan also requires business owners to use the federal government's free, Web-based E-Verify system that checks new employees' immigration status. Washington would also have to identify each time a foreigner enters and exits the country, USA Today reported. If those benchmarks are reached, and after 10 years pass, unauthorized immigrants could apply for a green card, which grants permanent legal status. If approved, they could apply for U.S. citizenship three years later. "I'm very optimistic about it," Rubio said on the CBS News program "Face the Nation" in a reversal of the caution he expressed about the measure several weeks ago. The bill is expected to be examined by the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Rubio said lawmakers would have weeks to study the bill, but he also told CNN's "State of the Union" he expected unspecified lawmakers would introduce amendments "designed as poison pills" to doom the measure. "I'll oppose those if I know that's what they're for," he said. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who appeared on ABC's "This Week" after Rubio, said he was "not convinced" by his colleague's pitch. "I know Senator Rubio's heart is exactly right," he told the program. "And I really respect the work of the Gang of Eight. But they have produced legislation, it appears ... that will give amnesty now, legalize everyone that's here effectively today, and then there's a promise of enforcement in the future. "Even if you pass laws today that appear to be effective, it doesn't mean they're going to be enforced," Sessions said. Rubio said newly legalized immigrants wouldn't receive federal benefits during the 13 or so years it would take them to qualify for full legal citizenship. "This is an important point. No federal benefits, no food stamps, no welfare, no Obamacare," he said on Fox. "They have to prove they're gainfully employed," he said. "They have to be able to support themselves, so they'll never become a public charge." Rubio is a son of Cuban immigrants. Cuban immigrants, through the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act, can become permanent U.S. residents after a year. Being a public charge doesn't make a Cuban ineligible to become a permanent resident. Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/04/15/Unauthorized-immigrants-may-have-to-pay-2000-to-earn-legal-status/UPI-69571366011000/

Patience. Let's just wait to see what they have to say this week. We probably won't get everything we want but we have to have faith. It is ridiculous how they try to please both sides but something has to happen it has been too long. Best wishes to all of us immigrants. Let's keep making the best out of our lives so we don't waste it in bitterness and regrets.

I did my biometrics on Feb 21 and Just got approved on Aprill 11

You know, dental assisting courses take less than 6 months to complete, and the job pays very well. I don't know if where you live you can find something like that. But it is a wonderful job for a working mom. While you are pregnant you could take the course, here in MA is cost me only 1,800. It is not much, and you can further the profession if you end up liking it. Congrats on the baby, and if defiitely doesn't affect your case, and it is great now that you can get good money back for claiming your baby as a dependant.

Since when do pregnant women can't work? Pregnant women work until their last month or even until they are about to give birth, that sounds just like an excuse and there's no way USCIS is going to find out unless you tell them? Either way, it won't affect your case at all. Congratulations!

Welcome Ivan and glad you could join us... You will see that you will benefit from the load of valuable information found all over the forum... Time to practice that virtue called patience!

You can go back to the SSA office 1-2 days after you apply and ask them if you have been issued an SSN number, if you have, you can then ask them for a printout.

So is the assumption that service centers back east don't have the resources/personnel to review the apps in a timely fashion? It took 5 months for me out of the CA center. I feel anything beyond a six month wait time is ridonkulous.

Welcome Ivan77c and good luck with your case.

Same old..won't belive it until I see it.

Application Received: October 9th Biometrics: November 5th California Service Center Initial Review for Life!!

It is hard and I used to feel like that all the time, but just try to keep your mind off of it and try to keep yourself busy. It may feel like forever, but once you get your approved, it'll almost feel like it happened so quickly and it'll make the wait worth it. You've been living here illegally for many years now, so waiting a few months shouldn't be a big deal. Hang in there; your time will come

You're not alone, as a matter of fact, there are thousands of people who have filed their applications in September, October and November and still haven't heard anything from USCIS. You are definitely at the early stage of the process, so just relax and occupy yourself with something else to take away the worrying. Be patient and wait, you could be approved anytime. If you can't see your application on the USCIS website, I suggest that you sign up for case status update. Have your I-765 and I-821 D case numbers ready. Clink this link to sign up... https://egov.uscis.g...LA8Kf-EdXbhMQ2t

I found this forum on a Google Search, I was searching for Dream Act related news and it was after the election and everyone was talking about immigration and what not, so this forum was one of the top search results that showed up on Google. I actually saw this Forum many times before but I've always avoided to "Sign-Up" , and then when I came back to this forum there was an interesting topic and I wanted to see other peoples comments and the only way that was possible was to sign-up, so I decided to sign-up and it was very simple and less annoying than I previously thought...and I've been hooked on this Forum ever since, and not to mention that it ended being very helpful throughout my DACA Application process and its going to be the home to be when the fight for immigration reform comes in April. So thank you Admin and all the helpful members of this forum.