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posted by [identity profile] cluelessinchi.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 21/03/2010
That is just wrong. It should not cost so much money. In the US that is what causes the immigration problems that we have. People need to work to pay the fees. Here is one thing that most US citizens do not know. most workers use illegal social security numbers to work. So they still pay taxes but never get the benefits for the time that they worked illegally. So the US benefits from having these workers.

You would not have to do this in the US. I know plenty of people who do not make the minimum amount and they just do not file. I never filed a tax return in the years that I did work since I never made enough money. They can not control your savings accounts. Do you pay taxes in both Canada and the US?
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posted by [identity profile] finnyb.livejournal.com at 05:16pm on 21/03/2010
It is wrong, I agree. And to immigrate to Canada it used to cost a lot more. When we got a new government in charge a few years ago, they made the price for the paperwork about $500 less than it was before. So now it's about $1000 for the paperwork stuff, and the another $1000 or so for the medical fees, the fingerprints, any moving expensese someone might have, and everything. It is definitely wrong that it costs so much, I think. It is also a lot easier to immigrate to Canada than it is to immigrate to the US. It only took about six months, once we got the paperwork to the Canadian government, for me to get my permanent residency. It would have taken a lot longer if we had tried to have the husband come to the States instead.

That is interesting, about the workers with the illegal SSNs. It does make sense that they would do so. I think the States, and probably other countries, would have a lot less illegal immigration if they made it easier to immigrate legally. Even the paperwork is written in confusing legal-type language, so if someone is not so good at understanding the language of whatever country they are trying to get to, they will have trouble just filling out the papers.

For some reason, if you are a US citizen living in the States, if you make less than whatever the minimum amount is, you do not have to file taxes. But if you are a US citizen living outside the States, you have to file taxes even if you have made no money at all in any country. I have worked in Canada for the past few years, so I do have to file both Canadian and US taxes (and will have to file Canadian taxes even if I had no income, as Canada requires the filing of taxes every year whether someone works or not). But I should not have to pay US taxes, as long as I do not make more than about $80,000 US a year. So far I have not even made $30,000 Canadian a year (the husband and myself are considered the working poor up here in Canada; I guess we are technically at or below the poverty line, or something, according to how it was explained to me), so I do not have to pay US taxes. I just have to file them. Which I still have not done for this year. Next weekend, I think I will try to do so. I cannot this weekend as I have a project to do for work.
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