Update on my wife's Green Card - It has arrived.

[AZLD4Candidate]

Last edited Sun Mar 10, 2024, 12:32 AM - Edit history (2)

We'll be back home flying into Logan and then on to Pittsburgh on April 8th, arriving home April 9th.

[question everything]

1. Congratulations! This has taken a long time but finally happy ending.

[SamKnause]

2. Wonderful news.

Congratulations.

[EndlessWire]

3. She's very pretty!

Finally! Congratulations! Don't lose the darned thing! (I've never seen one. Thanks for sharing!)

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. Yes. I married up. I'm a troll.

[wendyb-NC]

4. Wonderful news

Congratulations!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Finally, success! Congratulations on her victory! And a sweet homecoming to you both. ♥ nt

[blm]

6. ✌🏽

💐

[virgdem]

7. That's fantastic news.

You have waited a very long time for this moment. I wish you both all the best as you relocate to the US.

[Hekate]

9. Congrats, and all best wishes

[Bayard]

10. Wonderful news!

I wish you the best.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Congratulations.

[elleng]

12. BRAVO!!!

[moniss]

13. Do you know the

song "Angel Island" by Peter Rowan? Here is my favorite version. This is John Hurlbut and Jorma Kaukonen.

[AZLD4Candidate]

17. Wow. It's how I felt when they refused to let her into the country at SEATAC under the 45 asshole

It's how I felt when I went home in 2020 for health problems knowing it was a one way trip.

It's how I felt in 2022 when I held her for the first time in two year when I got back to China.

It's how I felt when I saw her in the Bangkok airport when she came here to do her visa interview.

I just want to make up all the time we've been forced to separate. I feel I will spend my life doing that as the guilt may never go away.

I'm not an overly emotional man, but this and Three Doors Down "Here Without You" hit me hard.

BTW, I grew up near Montgomery, NY

[moniss]

22. I love that whole area of NY

and I used to stop off of I-84 right there off Highway 208 and stay at the Super 8. There was a great small deli/store right across the road. Great fresh made dinner plates to go and of course deli. Because I was always passing through I never got the time to spend the time roaming the countryside. I traveled the Southern Tier on state roads all the way from the valley bridge all the way to Pennsylvania. Through the years I traveled through the Finger Lakes, Watertown, Lake Placid, Saratoga etc. But like so much of my travels in life I didn't get to spend time.

I'm glad you liked the song. The vocal and left channel guitar is John Hurlbut and the right channel is Jorma Kaukonen.

[AZLD4Candidate]

23. Maybrook? I used to do a lot of shopping in Middletown. I'm from one county north of Orange County

Sullivan County.

[moniss]

24. Bingo!!

I got to know the husband and wife a bit who ran the little deli. Real nice folks. That was back in the late '90's/early 2000's.

[fierywoman]

14. Hurray! And welcome to her.

[StarryNite]

15. Congratulations!

So happy for the two of you.

[Old Crank]

16. Congratulations

A big step for you.

[AllyCat]

18. Yes! So happy for you both!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

19. Congrats! Nt

[Lemon Lyman]

20. Congratulations!!

Happy for you

It expires after 6 months? What do you have to do to make things permanent? You don't have to keep renewing every 6 months I hope.

[AZLD4Candidate]

21. We're paying the Green Card fee tonight.

SHe must enter by July 31st or else the visa dies.

When she enters, she will have her actual green card 45 days later. It's good for 10 years then we need to renew.

She will have her SSN. . .my parents bought us a house for our 10th anniversary.

Because she's married to an American, the wait for going for her citizenship drops from five years to three. We can start in 30 months (2.5 years).

After she gets her citizen, she will sponsor her parents on an IR5 to get them here on a green card (parents visa). That will be easier. All she needs to do it prove they are her parents. Her birth certificate does that.

[Lemon Lyman]

25. Wow!

Thanks for the education!

Congratulations again. It's so cool to see good things happen.

[JustAnotherGen]

42. She should not tell them her plan to get her parents here

In her interview - at all.

Applying for citizenship is not a guarantee she will get it. Engage an attorney at the two year point to ensure the N400 is accurate and she has a coach to get her through the process.

Good luck!

[AZLD4Candidate]

43. she knows just to answer the questions asked and nothing else.

[hlthe2b]

26. I remember when you were so demoralized and angry... Seemingly defeated. So glad to see this now.

Congrats!

[Demsrule86]

32. It shouldn't be this hard though. I am glad we had a happy ending. Many of these

situations don't have happy endings.

[ChazII]

27. Congratulations

and thank you for sharing this wonderful news.

[GreenWave]

28. I always cry at the citizenship ceremony.

[samnsara]

29. Congratulations!! My son in law got his citizenship a year ago so he can vote against trump

..hes Scottish and has been in the states for 10 years but it took trump ( and my daughter) to push him to become a citizen

[niyad]

30. I am so happy for you both.

[Demsrule86]

31. That is wonderful!!!!

[Fla Dem]

33. Congratulations, at long last!

[yardwork]

34. I strongly recommend removing that photo!

Even with some personal info blacked out that's too much info in the internet.

Congratulations. I'm happy for you both.

[John Shaft]

38. Plus

there are tools that can "unredact" images.

Just saying.

Posting an identity document online is, well, no nice way to say it, kinda stupid.

[Polybius]

40. Those tools can't truly unredact the real info unless it was very sloppily blocked out

If that were the case, we'd get to see what the redacted JFK files said.

What they can do however is put fake info in its place.

[leftstreet]

39. +1

[AllaN01Bear]

35. finaly!!!!!!!

next step citizenship.

[liberalla]

36. Congratulations! Finally! I'm so happy for both of you!

[bluestarone]

37. So happy for you two!!!

CONGRATS!

[shrike3]

41. Congratulations and welcome home.

Your wife is lovely.