"there's something here"
After 15 hours in the hospital, my husband came home at 9 AM. We pretty much jumped into a cab right away and headed down towards city hall for the interview at 10:30.
The scene inside was what you would expect: colorful families, crying babies, anxious looking couples clutching gigantic accordian files of proof, hanging onto their lawyers for dear life.
An hour and half of waiting...watching a security guard with sniffing dog do his rounds...D trying to catch some precious moments of sleep, then--"Chan, is there a Chan here?"
We had the nicest interviewer ever, it was unbelievable.
-he joked with us RIGHT away, no tough guy act first then a chill out later, right away he was NICE (!!)
-he put us at ease (And I quote: "there's clearly something here, I have no problems with your marriage at all", "it's refreshing to talk with a real couple")
-he told us he would need to take some of our photos, and would we be ok picking the ones we'd have the least trouble replacing? (would we????)
No harassment, no awkward questions--except a couple at the end that I REALLY could not listen to with a straight face, e.g. "Have you ever been and do you ever plan to be a prostitute?"
So I'm now a big step closer to citizenship. We are amazed at how smoothly it went, and thank EVERYONE who prayed, got our mail, made some, cough cough, calls for us, gave moral support, and excellent 'unofficial lawyerly' advice. We could not have done it without you!
The scene inside was what you would expect: colorful families, crying babies, anxious looking couples clutching gigantic accordian files of proof, hanging onto their lawyers for dear life.
An hour and half of waiting...watching a security guard with sniffing dog do his rounds...D trying to catch some precious moments of sleep, then--"Chan, is there a Chan here?"
We had the nicest interviewer ever, it was unbelievable.
-he joked with us RIGHT away, no tough guy act first then a chill out later, right away he was NICE (!!)
-he put us at ease (And I quote: "there's clearly something here, I have no problems with your marriage at all", "it's refreshing to talk with a real couple")
-he told us he would need to take some of our photos, and would we be ok picking the ones we'd have the least trouble replacing? (would we????)
No harassment, no awkward questions--except a couple at the end that I REALLY could not listen to with a straight face, e.g. "Have you ever been and do you ever plan to be a prostitute?"
So I'm now a big step closer to citizenship. We are amazed at how smoothly it went, and thank EVERYONE who prayed, got our mail, made some, cough cough, calls for us, gave moral support, and excellent 'unofficial lawyerly' advice. We could not have done it without you!
posted by Duncan and Jen | 6:10 PM
3 Comments:
congrats!! and i would have married d for his money and good looks ;)
deep exhale... whew!
I'm so happy you're going to be an american.
:p
It must feel a lot lighter today. What a blessing!
yay! congratulations! i think the US gov't is fine if you marry for good looks and money. any less and then they might think you did marry for citizenship.
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