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Originally Posted by KUchief25
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We legally moved here from Canada a number of years ago. Although the immigration process was not finalized when we move down here, we paid the extra money and filed the extra forms so that we could legally move here and complete the process in the United States. The boys could go to school, and I filed even more forms and paid even more money so that I could legally work here.
My oldest son was in middle school at the time. He completed middle school, graduated high school, and then spent two years commuting to a college in the next state. We lived in a border town so received in-state tuition. By the time he was a junior in high school, we filed more papers and sent in more money so that HE could also legally work while waiting to get his green card.
After two years as an Undeclared, he decided on a major and transferred to a college back in our home state. That's where things went off the rails. My immigration process was complete by then, but because of paperwork mishandling, my sons slipped through the cracks and were still waiting for their green cards. This college wanted to charge him international tuition rates, which were much higher.
By this time my son had lived in the country literally for years. He had graduated from middle school and high school, had spent two years in college, had his drivers liscense, was registered for selective service, had worked and filed his taxes. And yet the college (located 45 minutes from where he lived) wanted to charge him international tuition rates.
I fought with the college for two months to no avail, and then in frustration finally fired off emails to senators in our state (TN) explaining the whole deal. The first did nothing. The second one did something and dealt with it for us, and we were extremely grateful. We weren't rich or well connected so I have no idea why a senator (actually one of his aides) stood up for us and got it sorted out, but thankfully he did. He is the only politician I have witnessed first hand (before or since) that actually did something positive for a rank and file citizen.
After all that my point is this - my family did it all legally (the form filing, the moving, the paying, the finger printing, the interviewing, the medicals, all of it), and every time I read crap like this I am angry. Every time.
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