I intended to do a write-up about my experience becoming a US Citizen last year. However, as is frequently the case, if I don’t start on a post right away it never happens. Fortunately, Dafna Linzer wrote up a article on Slate that captures a lot of the things I was going to write about: …
Tag Archives: immigration
Permanent permanent
I am finally a permanent permanent resident of the US. Confused? I was just a conditional permanent (haha) resident because Anna and I had not been married for two years before we applied for my residency (see here for my summary of the I-485 experience). To do this, I had to file I-751 (Petition to …
HR 4437
Billed as The March for Dignity, Respect and Hope, Sunday’s march was huge. It depends on who you ask, but the range seems to be 50-100k people. As expected, there were a lot of separate agendas on display – pinche bush, no borders, legalize everyone, random religious messages, etc. But everyone seemed to agree that …
Permanent resident in the USA
I’ve already wrote a bit on my experiences with US immigration and visas. But, since I have two friends going through the permanent residency process, I figured there would be some other people out there that might find this information useful. Some notes to start us out: – I didn’t use a lawyer. Some people …
INS adventures and bile.
Back in June, Anna and I went to the main San Diego INS/USCIS office in Chula Vista to be interviewed for my residency application. We weren’t sure what to expect. Would they separate us and interrogate to expose our choice of toothpaste? Well, no. Nothing like any sort of movie description happened. But, it was …