Traveling to Bring My Husband to the US

[carmel34 3,685]

I'm currently en route to Brazil to be with my husband, and this time, to bring him to the US with me.  It has been a very emotional two-year journey since we first met online, met in person multiple times, got engaged, later got married in Brazil, and filed for a CR-1 visa.  We were lucky and our CR-1 process only took 11 months.  Now he has his CR-1 visa and is making final arrangements to make this very big change in his life, leaving the job that he loves and all of his friends and family in the city where he has lived all of his life, to move to California so that we can finally live together and wake up next to each other every day.  This will be my 10th trip to be with him and my head and my heart are filled with all kinds of emotions as I sit in airports and deal with flight cancellations and make this long 30+ hour trip to be with him again.  Some of our friends and family think we are both crazy for doing this, but they don't understand the power of true love to transform and change everything, the very trajectory of our lives.  I'm posting this because I think sometimes we feel very alone in this journey, being so far away from the one person we love more than anything or anyone in this world.  Sometimes we have doubts or fears too, if it is really all worth it.  But in the end we do this for love, and to be with our husband or wife and hope that it all works out in the end.  I'm sharing this with the VJ community because I think many of you understand, you may have these same emotional feelings, you're not alone!  Hang in there, it will be worth all the time, money, patience, and pain of being apart, because soon you will be together and your love can continue to grow and flourish.  Sometimes we get so caught up in the long bureaucratic hassles of dealing with US immigration that we forget about the bottom line for many of us--the incredible power of love!  Good luck to you all in your journeys!

Edited August 15, 2019 by carmel34
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[Jmeleecur 347]

I feel of this. Well put. Congratulations! 

[Loren Y 2,762]

Very well written, and to the point. I will never forget the look on my fiancees face when we came thru the POE at LAX and we walked past the last turn to walk up the ramp and she saw all the people waving US flags, and holding signs saying welcome to America, and she said " are we in the United States now" i said yes, welcome to America, welcome to our new life together. It made all the wait and hassle to just get into the US with a legit visa and actually begin a new life for her together with me. We got married, filed AOS, Have her EAD/AP, she is working now and just so amazed that she can make in one Saturday at work what she used to make in a month of 7 days a week 12 hour a days. It isn't all roses, she misses her mom, and family a lot, but we will be going back to see them soon, and it has been quite an adjustment for her, but seeing her happy and making a bunch of new friends ( Glad I have her on a unlimited cell phone plan. LOL) and just learning all the new things she only read about or saw on TV. Driving back from LA late that night, actually about 1 or 2am you know I of course got off the freeway and Rolled up Las Vegas Blvd " The Strip" all the way downtown past the Las Vegas sign, all the lights and the casinos, it just blew her away. She had no idea it was all real, and so big. It was nice to have her get a taste of why I look like I do when we go to that beautiful beach in her home country of Thailand, and when I get all excited at things I see that you just are not going to see here in the US. It is all worth it, and I am so looking forward to being with her when she takes the Oath at the naturalization ceremony, next to our wedding day, that day will be right there with the same amount of importance.

 

Congratulations to the OP, as you will have the same experiences, unless your husband has been to the US before, but it is a great time showing the love of your life around. We did a trip to the Grand Canyon last month that she really enjoyed, and I keep telling her there is so much to see, and we will try to see it all.

[Ryan H 3,853]

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