HELP OUT A FELLOW VJ MEMBER

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

No problem. I say that because you can dwell on what you need to say. When my wife was in AP, I sent a long email to the Consular officer. I put my soul into it. It might have helped.

It took me a little under 5 months from K-1 file to touchdown in the A

I exercised my white privilege

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Put that in your remember file my fellow VJ brothers and sisters

Watch out! Your back might break.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Okay, so that would be Cornyn?

I need a show of hands.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Maybe. Give him a try. Now how are you going to approach Cornyn.

Okay, so that would be Cornyn?

I need a show of hands.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Please no Facebook.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Maybe. Give him a try. Now how are you going to approach Cornyn.

My name is . I am a U.S. citizen and so has my family been for many generations. I am emailing you about immigration issues that many U.S. citizens face. Unfortunately, it feels as if we are punished for marrying and trying to legally have our spouses to immigrate into the U.S. We are put through tiresome paperwork, burdensome wait times, long periods of separation, stressful interviews, loss of appetite and sleep, moments of extreme anger and periods of down right depression. If you have not attempted to have a love one to move to the U.S., this anxiety and stress may not be fully understandable. It is hurtful and severely painful to know that your life, your future, your hope and your love rests in the hands of someone who has not known you for an extended period of time, nor have they seen you and your love one interact together. All they have is some pieces of paper and so called "red flags" to judge you from. Some of us go through great lengths to do this process properly.

I returned back to the U.S. from living in Sri Lanka with my daughter and I left my then fiance. We tearfully cried our hearts out not knowing how long the separation would be. My daughter asks everyday when will ( ) (as she calls him (nickname) come to the U.S. and everyday I don’t have an answer for her. I searched for a job. It took me 6 months to find a good job which meets the 125% poverty rate required to sponsor an immigrant. My parents had also agreed they would sponsor my husband if I did not find a job that met the income requirement. It took me another 6 months to accrue vacation time to go back abroad and marry my husband. It took us another month to properly gather our paperwork and submit it to USCIS. I am originally from Memphis, TN. I moved to TX to gain the employment that is needed to sponsor my husband. I am not surrounded by family and I have no support system. My nearest support and family are 13 hours away. We are here in TX alone, all because I would like for my husband to immigrate to the U.S. properly and legally. It costs of thousands of dollars each year, and day and a half or sometimes 2 days of travel, for me to go visit my family in Sri Lanka.

My husband attended his interview at the Colombo, Sri Lanka Embassy, June 2013. We have a house together in Sri Lanka, my husband speaks 3 languages, my daughter misses him sorely and everyday he stays woke until 3:00 in the morning just so we can see each other’s face. He is one of the best men I have ever known. From June 2013 until now he has been in Administrative Processing. How can the U.S. feel that it is acceptable for a family to be separated for such long periods of time and think it will not take a toll? I understand that there is immigration fraud, but can we not remember that there are also legitimate people caught in the middle of this fight? Our separation from our spouses and our love ones is the same thing that our military families face during their periods of separation and deployment. Does this not put a strain on them as well? They say that separation makes the heart grow fonder, but at some point it becomes just loneliness.

My husband is 45 years old with no children. He will be 46 years old in February of 2015. We would like to have children before he becomes too old to enjoy them. How can we have children when he is living halfway around the world? His father is 76 years old and his health is deteriorating quickly. This December 2013 when I was in Sri Lanka, he talked of seeing just 1, being able to see just 1 of ( ) children before he dies. As we all know, even here in the U.S. how important grandchildren are to grandparents. ( ) is their oldest child, with no children.

My mom and dad are very supportive of our marriage and relationship. They flew all the way to Sri Lanka so they could be there for our wedding and of course meet ( ) in person. They are very fond of him. There are times when we all connect on Ovoo together and talk to each other.

Unless AP is for a terrorist background check, it should not last longer than 6 months. It deeply disturbs me to stay woke late at night just to call embassy for them to tell me nothing. It makes me sad to think that our life is not worth the sheet of paper it is written on. I have nightmares of our file sitting on a desk collecting dust while we grow old, separately.

Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated. People do not understand what it feels like to die a death every day. Everyday I wake up, before I get out bed, I check ceac.stat.gov to see if my husband’s status has changed. I wake up with hope, praying that today will be that day someone has had mercy on us. When I realize that’s not so, I die again and come back to life the next day with hope. If you help us, you will stop the suffering of 3 families. I pray this is enough to gain your consideration.

Thank You

Please no Facebook.

Then how? Do you have his personal email?

[luckytxn 2,264]

Always use their official websites.

I will find it for you but I need a few minutes as my wife is telling me about her hard day and what I need to do to make it all better.

Then we need to find someone to work on your letter.

My name is . I am a U.S. citizen and so has my family been for many generations. I am emailing you about immigration issues that many U.S. citizens face. Unfortunately, it feels as if we are punished for marrying and trying to legally have our spouses to immigrate into the U.S. We are put through tiresome paperwork, burdensome wait times, long periods of separation, stressful interviews, loss of appetite and sleep, moments of extreme anger and periods of down right depression. If you have not attempted to have a love one to move to the U.S., this anxiety and stress may not be fully understandable. It is hurtful and severely painful to know that your life, your future, your hope and your love rests in the hands of someone who has not known you for an extended period of time, nor have they seen you and your love one interact together. All they have is some pieces of paper and so called "red flags" to judge you from. Some of us go through great lengths to do this process properly.

I returned back to the U.S. from living in Sri Lanka with my daughter and I left my then fiance. We tearfully cried our hearts out not knowing how long the separation would be. My daughter asks everyday when will ( ) (as she calls him (nickname) come to the U.S. and everyday I don’t have an answer for her. I searched for a job. It took me 6 months to find a good job which meets the 125% poverty rate required to sponsor an immigrant. My parents had also agreed they would sponsor my husband if I did not find a job that met the income requirement. It took me another 6 months to accrue vacation time to go back abroad and marry my husband. It took us another month to properly gather our paperwork and submit it to USCIS. I am originally from Memphis, TN. I moved to TX to gain the employment that is needed to sponsor my husband. I am not surrounded by family and I have no support system. My nearest support and family are 13 hours away. We are here in TX alone, all because I would like for my husband to immigrate to the U.S. properly and legally. It costs of thousands of dollars each year, and day and a half or sometimes 2 days of travel, for me to go visit my family in Sri Lanka.

My husband attended his interview at the Colombo, Sri Lanka Embassy, June 2013. We have a house together in Sri Lanka, my husband speaks 3 languages, my daughter misses him sorely and everyday he stays woke until 3:00 in the morning just so we can see each other’s face. He is one of the best men I have ever known. From June 2013 until now he has been in Administrative Processing. How can the U.S. feel that it is acceptable for a family to be separated for such long periods of time and think it will not take a toll? I understand that there is immigration fraud, but can we not remember that there are also legitimate people caught in the middle of this fight? Our separation from our spouses and our love ones is the same thing that our military families face during their periods of separation and deployment. Does this not put a strain on them as well? They say that separation makes the heart grow fonder, but at some point it becomes just loneliness.

My husband is 45 years old with no children. He will be 46 years old in February of 2015. We would like to have children before he becomes too old to enjoy them. How can we have children when he is living halfway around the world? His father is 76 years old and his health is deteriorating quickly. This December 2013 when I was in Sri Lanka, he talked of seeing just 1, being able to see just 1 of ( ) children before he dies. As we all know, even here in the U.S. how important grandchildren are to grandparents. ( ) is their oldest child, with no children.

My mom and dad are very supportive of our marriage and relationship. They flew all the way to Sri Lanka so they could be there for our wedding and of course meet ( ) in person. They are very fond of him. There are times when we all connect on Ovoo together and talk to each other.

Unless AP is for a terrorist background check, it should not last longer than 6 months. It deeply disturbs me to stay woke late at night just to call embassy for them to tell me nothing. It makes me sad to think that our life is not worth the sheet of paper it is written on. I have nightmares of our file sitting on a desk collecting dust while we grow old, separately.

Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated. People do not understand what it feels like to die a death every day. Everyday I wake up, before I get out bed, I check ceac.stat.gov to see if my husband’s status has changed. I wake up with hope, praying that today will be that day someone has had mercy on us. When I realize that’s not so, I die again and come back to life the next day with hope. If you help us, you will stop the suffering of 3 families. I pray this is enough to gain your consideration.

Thank You

Then how? Do you have his personal email?

http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/

[luckytxn 2,264]

Scour this site and find someone that knows how to tweak the letter. It is real good but not quite there yet.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Scour this site and find someone that knows how to tweak the letter. It is real good but not quite there yet.

Hmmmm, any suggestions on what needs to be tweaked?

Of course there are gaps were my personal info should be.

And of course, wifey is number 1. Get started rubbing some toes, lol.

Last, that little box would never allow me to fit a letter. At the most maybe a 100 words.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Scour this site and find someone that knows how to tweak the letter. It is real good but not quite there yet.

Ok. I'm going to sleep. Work tomorrow. To be continued......

[luckytxn 2,264]

Yes a tad more brevity but with the emotion left intact.

Hmmmm, any suggestions on what needs to be tweaked?

Of course there are gaps were my personal info should be.

And of course, wifey is number 1. Get started rubbing some toes, lol.

Last, that little box would never allow me to fit a letter. At the most maybe a 100 words.

Yes I saw the contact form. I will see if there is a fax number for him, I am going to bed also. I am thinking Cornyn is a twit. Maybe try to get to him through that Assistant

Hmmmm, any suggestions on what needs to be tweaked?

Of course there are gaps were my personal info should be.

And of course, wifey is number 1. Get started rubbing some toes, lol.

Last, that little box would never allow me to fit a letter. At the most maybe a 100 words.

Going to bed also.

[Boiler 45,525]

No mention of the petition?

[luckytxn 2,264]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/unite-separated-husband-and-wife-who-has-been-married-almost-2-years-and-are-still-separated-each/fCjXQvrB

No mention of the petition?

[Boiler 45,525]

In the letter.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I'm going to go way out on a limb here. I'd send a real letter, you know, typed on paper and sign my name with a pen. And get this, mail it. And send it Priority Mail with delivery confirmation so that someone has to sign for it. Make yourself stand out. They get a thousand emails a day with people complaining about something. And before I sent the letter, I'd call the office and see who handled immigration issues. I know when I requested a Congressional inquiry, I had to fill out a form giving permission for the senator to do so.