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The fee for filing form I-90, no matter if you file it by mail or online, is $540 ($455 fee plus $85 biometrics fee). There is no additional fee to file it online. What probably happened is you used a third-party website, not affiliated with USCIS, which charged you an additional fee to file it for you as a scam, when you could have just filed it yourself directly just as easily.

Take a deep breath.The origin of DACA: For some reason, many people think that “DACA” (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is either a piece of legislation (a law) or else a Presidential Directive (an order).It is NEITHER. It is, rather, the name given to implementation of policy established in a June 15, 2012 memorandum authored by then Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. And she didn’t call if “DACA.” The subject line she chose is “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children.” Which boils down to the acronym EPDRIWCUSC. (epe-cry-wick-qski). Quite a mouthful.See the memo for yourself:https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/ass...The term, DACA, probably originated with someone in the Citizen and Immigration Services but heaven knows who that might be.Dreamer, schmeamer: Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go, here. Janet was not concerned with helping people, not interested in “fairness,” didn’t care about education and jobs for “illegals,” and had nothing to say about “dreamers.” No, Janet was concerned about pissing away a lot of Homeland Security money chasing after people who presented no real threat to the nation’s security. The purpose of her directive was to put department resources in the right place. And her memo did not establish immigration status. She said so, herself.This memorandum confers no substantive right, immigration status or pathway to citizenship.Only the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights.A Case of Unforeseen Consequences: But what has happened since Janet tossed that memo in her outbasket seems almost impossible. Politicians have seized upon it as a way to express their deeply heartfelt concerns which, they hope, will translate into votes. The liberal media and constituency have advanced her memo to the level of holy law. And a huge number of people believe it is a law, promulgated by Barack Obama. But it isn’t. Not even close.Some of the responsibility lies with the Immigration Service, itself, who dressed up the practical implementation of the memo with a nice web site and other collateral encouraging people to sign up for deferred action in exchange for filling out a form and handing over $500.Trump May Actually Have it Right: Damn MY eyes. What he wants is actual legislation to deal with a departmental policy which bureaucrats have given the effect of law. By his executive order, he can, indeed, rescind directives of his subordinates and their predecessors. And he has started a 60 day timer to get it done. I’m not so sure I’ve got a problem, with that, although I am fitfully embarrassed by his clumsy rhetoric.And go figure: The “deferral” is a two year deal, which may be renewed. It doesn’t confer citizenship, it just “kicks the can down the road” until some legislation is passed to deal with the matter. Far from being an expression of compassion and decency for those who are deferred, DACA, to the contrary, keeps all its subjects in a state of perpetual suspended animation!What? You Didn’t Get the Memo? Evidently not; if all the people who have so zealously taken a position and fought with each other HAD read the memo, then they might have realized that what they thought they thought wasn’t actually real.So read the damn thing. Much better than simply believing what other people say.Hope that helps.

Go here: Department of Homeland Security ConsentThen fill out the information.Pretty straightforward.

I am going to confess this to my church on Sunday so I may as well start here on Quora first.A few months back I was involved in a minor car accident with a guy who changed lanes on me. He did a bit of panel damage and also damaged my front left mag wheel.My insurance company asked me to get the damage assessed at my local repair shop. This I did. While he was assessing the damage I casually pointed out some minor damage to the mag wheel at the rear. I just mentioned it, I didn't say it was part of the accident. I just drew his attention to it. I wanted him to draw the conclusion that it was part of the accident and include that damage with the assessment. This he did. I didn't outright say it was,so technically I hadn't done anything wrong, had I?A few days later the insurance company assessor came out to verify the claim and give approval. I stood there while he did it and I never said anything to him about the damage to the rear mag. He also concluded that it must have come from the accident.It never came from the accident. I had done it myself by scrapping a gutter and the accident gave me the opportunity to have it repaired without me having to pay for it.In case you don't realise; this is wrong. And I knew it was. My conscience did eventually get the better of me and I emailed my repairer and told them to remove it from the job. Which they did.So, at that moment, I was honest but I am ashamed to say that it took a bit to get me there and I wish it came more automatically for me.

I’m OK, now that my husband is finally in a transition program which will result in his release. For almost 34 years, I’ve written, emailed and called people who could do something, if they would, and that’s really difficult and frustrating, especially while working at 2 jobs. Now that I’ve retired, I still spend at least a few hours every day searching for appropriate paperwork. He needs his birth certificate, which is a major problem, since he was born in Cuba. His citizenship papers were destroyed in a hurricane, and getting a copy has been impossible until lately. I finally got the form for him to fill out and sent Homeland Security $555.00, and they tell me they’re very busy, so it could take up to a year! Those are just a couple of examples, so I can report that I’m OK and hopeful, but exhausted!

My first wife was a Mexican citizen, born and raised in Mexico. I met her in her home town of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico during spring break. I was a college student in the US at the time, and had decided a Spring break in Mexico might be a lot more exciting than a crowded Florida beach. Originally headed for Tampico, I and my traveling companions got stranded in her hometown when our car broke down.She was maestra (teacher) and I would not have met her at any other time, because the school she taught at was far from her home, and she only came home on Samana Santa (Easter) and Navidad (Christmas).Anyway, I was captivated by her, and I spent all my major college breaks driving down from the US to her hometown in Mexico to see her. Two years after we first met, we married there in her hometown.So as two young clueless newlyweds we set off together for Mexico City — to the US Embassy to get a green card for her to accompany me back to the US. At the US Embassy, a US consul officer advised us that there was a six-month queue ahead of us, and that we would get faster service, maybe three days, at the US Consulate in Tampico.So we headed off to Tampico. And sure enough, three days later she had her green card package to give US immigration. Five days after that we crossed the border into the US, US immigration took about an hour reviewing her green card paperwork, then sent us on our way.That was some fifty years ago. Back then we did not need passports to travel between the US and Mexico, the paperwork was less, and there was no Homeland Security to worry about.But the process has not changed a lot. I believe there is still a simplified process for spouses from Mexico. There may be more forms to fill out, the application fee is much higher, and Homeland Security likely has to do a background check and issue an approval. So the waiting period is bound to be a little longer. And I think maybe the US Consular Office may have move to Veracruz.The US immigration process is easy to find. You don’t really need an immigration attorney. Just visit the official US government website at USCIS Homepage You can download all the forms you need to fill out.If you are the Mexican national, then you have to be mostly concerned about having official/original copies on your birth certificate, police report. marriage certificate, divorce certificates (if previously married.)If you are the US national, then you are the petitioner, and you have to put the application package together. you will also need official/original copies of your birth certificate, and divorce certificates (if previously married). You will likely also have to fill out a affidavit of support. While it may not be mandatory, I highly recommend that you should be with your dearly intended for any and all their interviews.I would think your biggest issue would be whether to marry first in Mexico, or get a fiancee visa and marry in the US. If you decide to marry in Mexico first, you have to get permission from the Mexican government first. So don’t neglect to get it, or your marriage won’t be valid.

As many of you know, the process of acquiring a student visa (F-1 visa) to the United States is nerve-racking for Indian families. Having gone through four years of college, graduating with a good GPA along with multiple summer research stints/internships, then applying to several US universities at considerable expense, and finally being rewarded with an acceptance letter from a respected school, Indian students are sometimes rejected from entering the US at the final hurdle—the visa interview at the US embassy.I recall the buildup to my interview four years ago. Many of my friends had theirs scheduled before mine, and they scared the bejeezus out of me recounting their horror show interviews involving scores of questions from grim interviewers with piercing glares boring into their souls trying to catch out any hesitation in their answers, any possible untruths.My parents did what any self-respecting Indian family does before their kid heads to an interview—they took me to a temple. And not just any temple—they took me about 1000 kilometers north of home to the searingly hot city of Baroda, Gujarat, to visit one particular Hanumanji temple (apparently this was our family God in our family temple, goodness knows why, we’re Tamils from Chennai—and I’m an atheist!)So after much prayer and puja, blessings from family members and well-wishes from friends, I stood outside the US embassy on a cloudy, muggy, summer day, shitting my pants under the narrow canopy that automatically opened over the street when it rained (a nice touch there, ‘Murica).My stomach churned as the line slowly moved forward. My heart leaped into my mouth as I passed through the gates, only to be confronted by armed security guards who proceeded to take away anything I had in my pockets—pens, coins, paper, etc.Please don’t take my clothes too, please don’t take my clothes too, I prayed silently.The guard gestured at my jeans. Resigned to my fate, I started to unzip them.“What are you doing?” he asked, amazed. “Just take off your belt and pass through the scanner.”….Finally through the gates, I was taken aback at how simple the next room looked. Then I understood why—it was just a queue room. A room for this damn queue.Half an hour later we passed into the Interview Room. People lined up in front of about a dozen booths, each with a White Man or White Lady inside (must be the Americans, I thought fearfully, please let them understand my accent).The room was air-conditioned. I was sweating.It was large and airy. I gasped for breath.Now I was in front of one of the White Men. He beckoned me forward.He smiled at me evil— no, pleasantly — it was a pleasant smile!“Hi there, how’s your day going?”He greeted me — what do I do? Is this part of the interview? Oh no, I don’t have an answer. Smile. Smiling is good. He won’t hate you if you smile.I smiled. He waited.Oh shit, he asked you a question. Answer it, jackass!“OH IT IS—you’re too loud, dolt—going well”, I whispered.He didn’t hear that last bit, but he nodded as if he did.“May I have your I-20?”“Here it is,” I breathed.He stared down at it for a minute. Then—“So, you’re going to Purdue?”Say yes, don’t say yup. And don’t shout.“YUP!” I shouted.“Ok then, you’re good to go” he said, stamping my passport.“What?” I yelped, staring at him in disbelief.“You’re good to go, sir, your application has been accepted.”You mean after all that stress you didn’t ask me a single question? Not one? Why?? Are you crazy, man? I even lied about my day, it was shitty as hell, you should quiz me on it! Make me grovel for that visa, like the bastards I know you interviewers are!“Good luck with your PhD, Mr.Raman, and enjoy your stay in the United States of America.”“Thank you,” I replied, my throat catching.I was going to America courtesy this senile interviewer. Thank you Hanumanji!

To answer your immediate concern, no, neither IRS nor the SSA will report your friend to immigration service. Both agencies get billions of dollars every year as taxes from unauthorized workers, and they don't have the knowledge of who's authorized or who is making an honest mistake (people misstype their SSNs all the time). On top of it, many if not the majority of immigrants do not inform SSA when their immigration status changes to that of a permanent resident or citizen (or any other status that allows employment), so these agencies truly would not know much beyond whether someone spelled their name/SSN correctly.Now let's address your friend's status. First of all, misrepresentation on the I-9. Had she checked the 'US citizen' box, she would most likely be totally screwed (i.e. permanent inadmissibility to the US without the possibility of a waiver, even if she marries a US citizen), but if she claimed to be a permanent resident, it would be much harder for the USCIS to ban her just for that. However, it is much safer for someone working without authorization to work as a contractor, not an employee. W-9 does not require you to disclose your immigration status, and this way both the contractor and the employer are safe. I know people who have worked for years as contractors without authorization, and have been able to get permanent residence (but only through marriage to a citizen).Second, there is an important distinction in the immigration code that your friend needs to understand, which may save her behind, after all. While her employment is unauthorized and she is out of status, it does not necessarily mean she is illegally present - yet. And there is a world of difference between being out of status and being illegally present. Once she is illegally present for 180 days, the 3 year admissibility bar kicks in, and she will be unable to legalize her status (unless, again, it's a marriage to USC). The date she needs to look at comes either from her work visa approval or the stamp she got when she last entered the country, whichever happened later. If that date has not passed or passed less than 180 days ago, she can still get a new work visa, but she will have to leave the country and come back (most likely will have to go to the consulate). It is called date on I-94, and she should definitely talk to an immigration lawyer about it.Third, yes, she needs to file her taxes. Being employed unauthorized does not mean you don't have to file a return. In fact, the IRS treats unauthorized workers the same way it treats legal immigrants - in the eyes of IRS they are all 'resident aliens'. In fact, not filing a return may present problems later if she ever gets to apply for citizenship.P.S. If you thought the US immigration system is punitive, then you need to know that your friend is one the few lucky ones who get to come to the US legally, a privilege not offered to the vast majority of would be immigrants. In other words, others have it worse.

In general, it is possible to change status from H-4 to F-1 provided that you have the appropriate (I-20) documentation from the school you intend to attend.Note that H-4 is a dual intent visa, but F-1 is not; as a result, you may be denied the change of status if USCIS concludes that you have immigrant intent.Note also that change of status only applies while you are in the United States. If you are not in the United States and have a currently valid H-4 visa, but wish to obtain an F-1 visa, you must simply apply for an (entirely new) F-1 visa. While you can reuse some of the documentary evidence you collected for the H-4 visa for the F-1 application, it will be a new application.