Comment Submitted By Anthony Davis

I have had to pleasure of dealing with immigration services for the last 10 years. During this time I have seen the cost for immigration services benefits increase, supposedly to help with the cost of decreasing the backlog of applications and aid in the National Security. However, the backlog has increased, it takes many months to review and process the final application. For example, I aided my brother in law, a naturalized citizen, apply to bring his mother here usiing I-130. For two years the processing centers in Vermont, Dallas, California and Louisiana kept moving her paperwork around, but finally notified him in July of the paperwork going to the consulate office in Panama for her to get her for travel. Unfortunately, she die while visiting her daughter, my wife, before the process could be finished. This is money lost dueto the inefficiency of your agency in processing submitted applications. Personally, I take these fee increases to be another way that the US government is trying to prevent immigrants from coming to America. The fees are exorbitant, as well as ludicrous. A few weeks ago your agency had the audacity to tell my wife it will take six months to replace her stolen green card, yet your fee increase proposal says the processing time for I-90 should decrease to two months. Why should I or any other citizen have to pay a proposed cost of $290 to replace a card you have information on and should take less than two or more months to process? Your agency should seek full funding from Congress, rather than keep increasing fees for services that are subpar.