Quote Originally Posted by GoldfishMan View Post
Well, it’s not really “chump change”. The going price for such an arrangement last time I heard was around $150k. Not an insignificant amount at all. Besides, there are ways to avoid the pitfalls of losing half of everything.
I heard similar $100K and not always a "local" often a student will get TR / PR and immediately he or she will "sponsor" someone so it's a beautiful circle.

Yes as someone earlier said most of the locals invoked in this enterprise usually won't have $100K of assets to lose... 🤣