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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 12:25 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
Doubt it. I think Congress first set this one as part of a budget-balancing item (so he`ll have to ask them to reduce it) a long time ago and also as part of the user pays doctrine. Canada and the U.K. have bought into this doctrine.
Agreed.

We do a lot more checking on visas than most countries do. Of course our visas are expensive.
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