What breaks the bank is subjective. I would never pay, grow a spine. This is literally just shaking some money out of someones pocket for something millions have for free.
Applying is such a pain though...I am also redoing it because the time to renew was so inconvenient. Maybe pay for an agent once? For the funds that is.
Jeezzz dude...I would freak out if some stranger on facebook with the exact same name would ask me where I am located following 'Coming your way!'. You want to take his place�?
Yes, you can start by asking 76k strangers on facebook. Or you start at the embassy website of your home country;). And I hope you agree that a question like this is just a nonsense question? How can anyone answer if we don't know anything about this person? Anyway, hope he finds his answers.
But if you can't even find the most basic answers yourself online...This person also doesn't give any background information whatsoever, e.g. age, financial situation and origin. I agree with Malcolm, at least try first and then if you do have questions, try a bit harder to make it easy to answer. This is just lazy.