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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Supporting herself and a 7-year-old son on a preschool teacher's salary in suburban Marin County, one of the nation's priciest housing markets, keeps Russian immigrant Sveta Nikitina on a tight budget.
One expense she can't control is the rising cost of filing the forms she needs to work and travel in the United States while she waits to become a permanent resident.
Those fees have already pushed her careful bookkeeping into the red.
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