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[shrewdgal 0]

Nice comments there about no draft in place .... we'll see.

Like I said, there's a lot of boys dying and not enough signing up

Give this situation a couple of years and it could all look quite different ... it's amazing what changes a goverment can bring in overnight.

guys- we are all in a sucky position. we ALL want to be with the ones we love. Service men and women do a GREAT thing for our country. We wll know that. Its a tough argument with right stuff on both sides.

but here is a question- when a service man/woman petitions for their wife/husband.... if they are away on assignment...then the husband/wife wouldnt necessarily be together that way either would they?

either way. we ALL deserve to be with the ones we love and that is what the immigration system was created for..

too bad the very service created to serve us is destroying us.

we all have enough stress with this immigration situation without us stressing over something we can neither control OR change...lets just support each other.

[000 0]

I agree with Cat, would letting us have our visa's early really be special treatment? .... all it would do would enable us to spend a little more time with the guys we love before they disappear into the distance .... leaving us not knowing if we'll ever see them again.

At least for your peace of mind, if they die before we get our IR1's, it causes massive issues .... tons of foreign spouses of dead servicemen have been deported before getting IR1 .....

Special treatment ? .... I never would've thought of calling it that.

Again I agree with you, I do 100%. For years i hated my government and my country because I never had my father in my life. Never. People on here talking about deployment is happening more often, I did not know it stopped. I guess it depends on what branch they are in. Also, as long as it is not a war area or somewhere that is really dangerous you are allowed to go with them, it might not be the best thing if you can not live off of only their salary but it is an option. An option that me and my family never had because for most of the things that the people in the special forces do can be considered very dangerous. And Iraq and other places where we have decided to step in and say "We are America, you will listen" are too dangerous. Its not wrong to want to have that time with them, but a sad truth is the military was not designed for the normal family idea (again depending on what branch and area they are in) but in the Visa process, yes it is considered special treatment, look at some of the countries that we have on here, and tell me you would feel safe walking alone on some of their streets. Poverty breeds crime, 3rd world countries are 3rd world because they are to poor and far behind to be considered normal countries. Just because peoples family are not in the service does not mean at any given time terrible things can not or will not happen to them, not to mention the other countries that are in civil war.

By the way ..... why can't your wife get an expedited case in 11 days too ? Brazil is also a dangerous country

I am glad that you can see im not attacking you, and only trying to point out that you are not alone in not knowing what might happen from day to day. My wife has to travel an hour and a half on a bus to an area that i cant even go to when i visit her because were pretty sure i would be robbed and killed, then come back and walk on dark streets for another 30 minutes where people being assualted is a daily thing and a way of life there, mugged, raped, shot, you name it she sees these things daily. I feel for you and I understand your pain, I really do , trust me I know because i lived with that fear for 17 years of my life. I hope that one day the government does understand what they do to families , not only on an immigration level but also the families that have to live with the fear you now live with and the stress of always being apart, leaving mothers to raise children alone even when their husband is alive, same for the husbands that have to do it.

[Army_Wife 2]

guys- we are all in a sucky position. we ALL want to be with the ones we love. Service men and women do a GREAT thing for our country. We wll know that. Its a tough argument with right stuff on both sides.

but here is a question- when a service man/woman petitions for their wife/husband.... if they are away on assignment...then the husband/wife wouldnt necessarily be together that way either would they?

either way. we ALL deserve to be with the ones we love and that is what the immigration system was created for..

too bad the very service created to serve us is destroying us.

we all have enough stress with this immigration situation without us stressing over something we can neither control OR change...lets just support each other.

Shrewdgal, I agree .... we're all under pressure, and my goodness I guess I'm feeling it too .... it's rare for me to ever bite about anything.

I agree with the expedites for those away is a strange one .... I guess Cat and I feel quite irritated at the time we're missing because our Husband's are sitting Stateside for a few months till the next deployment, and it really feels like a waste of days together, which could be the last.

I guess I'm losing it a little, and it's hard. I've already been turned down for an expedite and soon there'll be funeral number 2 that I won't be able to attend while I'm stuck in this F-ing USCIS nightmare

I am glad that you can see im not attacking you, and only trying to point out that you are not alone in not knowing what might happen from day to day. My wife has to travel an hour and a half on a bus to an area that i cant even go to when i visit her because were pretty sure i would be robbed and killed, then come back and walk on dark streets for another 30 minutes where people being assualted is a daily thing and a way of life there, mugged, raped, shot, you name it she sees these things daily. I feel for you and I understand your pain, I really do , trust me I know because i lived with that fear for 17 years of my life. I hope that one day the government does understand what they do to families , not only on an immigration level but also the families that have to live with the fear you now live with and the stress of always being apart, leaving mothers to raise children alone even when their husband is alive, same for the husbands that have to do it.

I know you weren't attacking me, and I've always been confused as to why you've never been rushed thru the system due to Brazil being dangerous.

I understand danger and how unpleasant it is to live like that every bloody day .... it takes a while to get used to the fact that you're in a safe place when you get out of it too