immigration

When Your Life is on Pause

July 6, 2010

in Updates

I really feel like someone pushed a giant, red pause button on our lives last month. Please, US Consulate, if it’s not too much to ask, could you press PLAY already!? Still waiting. Still on hiatus until I know more. In the meantime, visit The Brink of Something Else for a great series on adjusting to [...]

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What’s Happening is a Waiting Game

June 28, 2010

in Updates

I really want to say thanks for all the notes of support over our little visa woe and since I haven’t posted anything here in a while, I thought an update was in order. Alas, I don’t really have anything to update other than to say that we continue to wait and hope and pray. [...]

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It Might Not Be Happening After All

June 6, 2010

in Uncategorized

The US Consulate thinks the DH wants to throw away his dream job and fabulous Beijing apartment for an illegal visa overstay in the US where he would be unable to work and would constantly risk deportation. Hmmm… Great job in China vs. crappy existence in the USA… All he needed was a two week [...]

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• I agree with many Americans that illegal immigration is a major problem, can't deny that. What I do not agree with, however, is the way immigration laws treat married couples, when one spouse is a US citizen. (Especially when the spouse originally entered the country legally.) It sometimes seems US immigration's aim is to break up families. I'm speaking from personal experience here. The NYTimes has been running a lot of immigration articles lately that I can really relate to. This one surprised me, because the lawyerly advice the couple in the article received is exactly what I'd always been told. Someday I'll write about my experience with family immigration in Spain, and how it seriously contrasts with the US. (0)

This immigration story caught my eye this morning. Oh and yes, they are serious about those ten years. Let me tell you all about it. Good news - as of last year we are ten years free and clear. (0)

It Is What It Is

June 2, 2009

in Expat Life

I should never have read this article about a French bakery owner and her US immigration problems. It is a heartwarming story and an affirmation of the power of community, a made for Hollywood tale of visa woe and salvation, but it is also completely heartbreaking for me. I shouldn’t read anything at all about [...]

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