At long last . . . after years of waiting while various federal departments lost, misplaced, and basically bungled things, we have finally been approved for permanent residency!
A very nice man in Texas called on Saturday saying the only obstacle to approval was the fact that even after two attempts, my finger prints were no good. This meant I had to go to the local police and have them write a "letter of good conduct" stating they did not have any records of me being arrested having outstanding warrents from the last five years.
Luckily, DH is active in the Police Academy classes for residents of Springfield (basically an information class - DH is really learning a lot about what police officers face in this city - scary stuff!)
Anyway, he was able to contact someone, who expidated the letter, which was faxed today (remember, Monday was a state holiday in Massachusetts).
So I called the fellow in Texas, and he picked up the faxed copy and entered the appropriate data into his computer while I was on the phone to him.
It certainly is a comfort knowing where we will be living . . . my work visa finishes in Aug and it was not renewable (it's amazing how quickly everything came together after paying over $)7,000 to imigration lawers!
Got the Green Card!
Congrats to you! That is great news! :)
Congrats Seandor. I remember the day I got my green card. What a relief after all the red tape! I had been on H1B before that. The immigration lawyers certainly know how the system works - mine was done through the company I work for, so I was fortunate to have them doing it from the start. Still, it seemed like it took forever and there were just so many steps and stages. Congrats on being a permanent resident alien! Are you going to go for citizenship eventually? I can never make up my mind. I don't want to renounce my other citizenships and the only real benefit I see is being able to vote (which I would like to do), but is that worth renouncing? Some folks say you don't have to renounce any more...
Claire
Wonderful news! Congratulations to you and your DH. Now you are a legal resident alien. That always cracks me up, I have visions of Mork and Mindy for some reason. My DH became a citizen many years ago. So glad things are settled for you now and you can plan things in your life, it must be a big relief. :)
Congratulations Seander!! That is wonderful news! Just curious - how can your finger prints be no good? Eleanor
Congrats Seander from the Shea"s as well!!!!! Perhaps your prints are so hard to get from working so hard in the garden they are worn off.You certainly do a lovely job with your English,wish my son could do as well with high school Spanish.
Peter
Yaaaay!
Congratulations, that is wonderful!
congrats and a permanent WELCOME !!!
Gloria
Congrats to you!!
Yipeee Michaela!!! Legal aliens are SO friendly, and such good gardeners, too! Congrats to your David - the right friends make all the difference.
Eleanor, I'm very sorry I missed your birthday! I hope it was a happy one.
xx, Carrie
YEAH!!! Great news.
Ah . . . why I have crummy fingerprints. Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, (like when I was 16), I had a terrible crush on a wonderful lad (later to become DH). Anyway, I was working in an Italian restaurant and I was taking hot lasagne dishes from the kitchen to some customers. I had to walk past the restrooms to get to the dining room. As I was walking by with the two hot lasagne dishes resting on cool plates and balancing the side plates with the dinner rolls, future DH steps out right in front of me as he exits the men's restroom.
I abruptly stopped, sending the lasagne bowls flying upwards, the content of which flew up to the ceiling where it momentarily stuck . . . then it started to rain lasagne on both sides of the half wall partition. Lasagne fell on future DH - but also on customers sitting at tables on the other side of the half wall.
I was soooo mortified (this was not the way to make a good impression on this fellow I had a crush on!) that I immediately picked up the two lasagne bowls off the carpet. These bowls had just been in a 900 degree oven less than two minutes previously.
Needless to say, the heat removed my fingerprints! The ends of my fingers blistered, but amazingly, there was very little pain. But I had no fingerprints at all for almost six months. Eventually fingerprints did return but they are very faint relative to what normal people have.
Now it makes for a very funny story . . . the Greek cooks were killing themselves laughing (I had told them I would point out the guy I had a crush so they thought it was very funny I tossed lasagne on him!)
If you want to awe your sweetie
and disposed to pay the cost, a
method that is certain is to
smother him with pasta.
Congrats on the card Michaela, now you can lose the sandpaper for the fingertips.
Michaela, I thought there was something "smoky and mysterious" about you last year when I met you. Aahhh, well there goes the fantasy about being kidnapped by you and taken to your ocean side villa in France. With your green card you'll be around for a long time, congrats girl!
I can dream,
Chuck
Congrats, Michaela!!!!!!
I am so happy for you!
Don, another great one!
Congratulations Michaela and Dave!! I love the lost fingerprint story and Don's poem is the best!
Wow..... no fingerprints, for real? Wait until Interpol finds out about this one! Michaela, the international spy, with no fingerprints!
Loved the finger print story! Actually loved isn't quite the right word for it cause they must have hurt terrible. One good thing became of it though - you got to make an "impression" on DH!!! LOL Eleanor
Why Chuck, I am so flattered! Running away to France . . . . hmmmmm. . . .
Thanks everyone, it's easy to eliminate fingerprints . . . just wear vinyl gloves.
Congrats, Michaela!! I'm really happy for you!!
Louise
Congratulations, Michaela! Wonderful news.
Also, Michaela, what you said about being able to quit - that is very liberating. It means you can set a limit on how much garbage you're willing to put up with. You're not at the mercy of your employer, completely. (My employee just quit, so I know.) I mean, of course tenure would be lovely, and I hope you get it. But DH can get a job now.
I realize that academia is quite different, that there may, in fact, NOT be a limit on the garbage you have to put up with, but it's still terrific news about the green card!
Carrie
I actually got tenure last year. . . . which actually makes moving more difficult, since universities and colleges prefer to higher assist. profs (cheaper wages, easier to get rid of if they don't work out). sometimes you can get hired as an associate professor with a short-track for tenure. So lateral moves are more difficult. Going to a new insitution as the Chair of a department is possible - but who needs that headache?
Oh, so sorry, I forgot, of course I knew that. I'm just all wrapped up in finding a replacement for this kid who quit.
It just made me think - didn't you say in another thread you could quit - of what my DH says about the 60's and 70's in this country. If a draft age boy got in trouble, one of the options was always Viet Nam. Once you were in Viet Nam, it became a joke, I guess (I wasn't there). "What are you going to do, send me to Viet Nam?" They were already in Viet Nam.
I don't know, as I read back over this it doesn't make any sense. I hope you understand kind of what I'm trying to convey, along with all good things for you and your family.
xx, Carrie
All the best to you guys!!!
Of course I understand Carrie
Thanks PrimroseSue!
And we hired a new attendant, so I won't be lousy any more! Yipee! Hey, that's the first time I posted a picture that I didn't take!
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Are your columbines in plastic cups? What size bottom holes? x, Carrie
You have lice, Carrie??? (just kidding . . . ) ^_^
Actually, each of my children in public school kindergarten came home one day with the dreaded notice: SOMEONE IN YOUR CHILD'S CLASS HAS HEAD LICE. But. no, dear, I was never personally afflicted! You? ^_^
No . . . and I grew up poor.
Gee .... I AM poor - except in friends like you! ^_^
I know I'm changing the subject but, have any of you guys seen any hummingbirds yet?
Not me, hung a window feeder a couple weeks ago in case they showed up before flowers were blooming.
Congratulations Michaela!!
Great Michaela. Have been through that process before with employees. It can go on for years and is stressful.
Carrie, most of us with kids have been through the lice thing...don't remind me please.
Laurel
sorry I have been slacking in my checking new posts.... congrats!!!!!... I am so happy for you!
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