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Old 09-22-2006, 01:43 PM
jaenelle jaenelle is offline
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Well, the agency that we are signed up with has an agency fee of $13,000 which includes basically everything but travel and finalization expenses. Which is great, but they have NO situations that we qualify for even coming up, to my knowledge. We aren't open to any drug or alcohol use, which really hurts our chances, I think.

So we signed up with a referral service that has quite a few situations -- unfortunately, none of them have been less than about $18,000.

So I guess, I'm kind of stuck. Do we go ahead and wait for the cheaper place to have situations -- which they're quoting 6 to 9 months for that -- or do we go ahead and submit ourselves for things that would be sooner, but cost more?

Just rambling, I guess. Anyway, thanks for your advice.
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