Guten Tag - HI :D

[M and A 2011 0]

Hello to everyone - guten Tag!!

This is Michael on behalf of me and my fiancee Amber (USC). I am in Cologne, Germany with the strong wish to emigrate from here and immigrate the U.S., more specifically the high altitude rocky and often snowy wonderful beauty of the State of Colorado, to be with my Schatzi and her lil daughter as a happy family. We'd be a young family of twens (22/29) and of course the lil one (4)

Despite the dying out of family values, omnipresent self-centeredness and crave for an ohsoawesome career, at least everywhere around me in Germany, I decided to put my studies of the German Law on hold and take a big relevant part of my life right now: the foundation of a little family and practical work as well as living and working overseas (Taking up the studies in Germany again is the option, not the move - so don't get me wrong that'S decided already )

Of course against all kinds of resistance from people trying to hold me here... Seeing how uncomfortable I am with life (burnout danger!) over here and the deep and strong relationship to Amber which caused the, I think for most of you highly understandible, wish to be WITH her for more than the short holiday periods (which admittedly makes it tough to be the high-effective working bee everone seems to be wanting me to be).

She's currently working a 6hrs/day job with fair pay and me 10-12 (which is part why I am burnouty, uncomfortable and generally rid of it, but not the only reason) pro bono...

So I might get into some communiaction with y'all here Gonna build our timeline too. I've been browsing a lot on this community based on Google results (think I did like 9 hours immigration research today, even forgot to take dinner, now it's 30 minutes to midnight hahaha) and decided about time to sign up and join the active community yay!!

Looking forward to talking to some of you,

Mike

[Ellen&Joern 0]

Hello to everyone - guten Tag!!

This is Michael on behalf of me and my fiancee Amber (USC). I am in Cologne, Germany with the strong wish to emigrate from here and immigrate the U.S., more specifically the high altitude rocky and often snowy wonderful beauty of the State of Colorado, to be with my Schatzi and her lil daughter as a happy family. We'd be a young family of twens (22/29) and of course the lil one (4)

Despite the dying out of family values, omnipresent self-centeredness and crave for an ohsoawesome career, at least everywhere around me in Germany, I decided to put my studies of the German Law on hold and take a big relevant part of my life right now: the foundation of a little family and practical work as well as living and working overseas (Taking up the studies in Germany again is the option, not the move - so don't get me wrong that'S decided already )

Of course against all kinds of resistance from people trying to hold me here... Seeing how uncomfortable I am with life (burnout danger!) over here and the deep and strong relationship to Amber which caused the, I think for most of you highly understandible, wish to be WITH her for more than the short holiday periods (which admittedly makes it tough to be the high-effective working bee everone seems to be wanting me to be).

She's currently working a 6hrs/day job with fair pay and me 10-12 (which is part why I am burnouty, uncomfortable and generally rid of it, but not the only reason) pro bono...

So I might get into some communiaction with y'all here Gonna build our timeline too. I've been browsing a lot on this community based on Google results (think I did like 9 hours immigration research today, even forgot to take dinner, now it's 30 minutes to midnight hahaha) and decided about time to sign up and join the active community yay!!

Looking forward to talking to some of you,

Mike

"Hallo" Michael. I'm the USC (Ellen) and my German is weak but I'm picking up words here and there. Welcome to Visa Journey! This website has been a huge help to me, so I hope it will be equally helpful to you and Amber. All the best to you!

[krautlaus 7]

Heya Mike,

welcome to VJ and congrats on your engagement! You'll see this website is indeed a wonderful resource for just about any question you could have.

Don't let those skeptics drag you down, they're just jealous

All the best for your personal visa journey!

[M and A 2011 0]

Thank you Ellen and krautlaus

Not sure if the sceptics are jealous in first place or more so spend a hard time with realizing "their baby bird leaves the nes"t, you know the children moving out deal... I moved out from my parent's house in Oct. 2008 so almost 2 years ago but am still within a 30 minutes driving distance... that's about to change to a 14 hours (including layovers, I think non-stop would be 9ish...) JET-FLYING distance and that's understandibly some kind of shock...

At some point on the internet I read that those who are old and mature enough to MARRY should be old and mature enough to take a step such as immigrating to the U.S. and I see no problems in both of those fields for me other than the resistance which will surely go on everybody's nerves but in the end people WILL get over it I'm sure.

How did you guys (more so the initial nonUSCs, maybe meanwhile newly-USCs ) handle the devastated, depressed crying crowd of family members and/or close friends that begged you to stay???

Did they try to trick you out of it by telling you how insane you were putting education on hold or quitting your ohsoimportant job over there and go to the U.S. ?? And how you had no perspective and end up all poor over there cuz your fiancee sucks for support and you better be a neatly done lawyer [as if a degree in German Law would make me pass bar exams in the U.S. LMAO - I doubt they even accept it as a substitute for a U.S. lawschool, besides I don't really wanna be a lawyer no more I started hating it about 6 months back lol] or bullshit like that?

(To have that straight again: I know Amber and me will make it and have a wonderful life and the U.S. job market is, despite all economical [capital] crisis going on or more precisely just ending after the high peak, not so super impossible. E.g. a friend of her's works for the commuity/city administration and didn't even graduate highschool.... So what's the point in telling me I had no chance with a grammar school graduation (Abitur, that'd be I think regularely one year more than highschool) and 3 years studying law (admittingly that's not finished but wil be paused by the time the K1 clears) as well as several voluntaries (hosting a youth group, amnesty international, fire fighters) and ultimatevly 9 months of experience in working with mentally handiapped children in a special school... How's that for a job profile even though no state exam law degree? I studied more than most people in her community do their whole life long and those people found jobs too so stop giving me s**t duhhh... Sorry kindof self-arguing here I know for. ex. that the working with handicapped people field has a current demand for workers. Again no bigass degree and certficate on a neat lil diploma sort of document which shows I'm the super expert (that is SO horribly terribly German thinking!!! *pukes*) but lots of practical experience and personality

Anyrate how did you handle it? If we have a thread on here I just didn't find yet feel free to be lazy to just drop a link on the matter or tell me which keywords on the search surely find one

So long,

Michael

[krautlaus 7]

Not sure if the sceptics are jealous in first place or more so spend a hard time with realizing "their baby bird leaves the nes"t, you know the children moving out deal... I moved out from my parent's house in Oct. 2008 so almost 2 years ago but am still within a 30 minutes driving distance... that's about to change to a 14 hours (including layovers, I think non-stop would be 9ish...) JET-FLYING distance and that's understandibly some kind of shock...

At some point on the internet I read that those who are old and mature enough to MARRY should be old and mature enough to take a step such as immigrating to the U.S. and I see no problems in both of those fields for me other than the resistance which will surely go on everybody's nerves but in the end people WILL get over it I'm sure.

How did you guys (more so the initial nonUSCs, maybe meanwhile newly-USCs ) handle the devastated, depressed crying crowd of family members and/or close friends that begged you to stay???

Did they try to trick you out of it by telling you how insane you were putting education on hold or quitting your ohsoimportant job over there and go to the U.S. ?? And how you had no perspective and end up all poor over there cuz your fiancee sucks for support and you better be a neatly done lawyer [as if a degree in German Law would make me pass bar exams in the U.S. LMAO - I doubt they even accept it as a substitute for a U.S. lawschool, besides I don't really wanna be a lawyer no more I started hating it about 6 months back lol] or bullshit like that?

(To have that straight again: I know Amber and me will make it and have a wonderful life and the U.S. job market is, despite all economical [capital] crisis going on or more precisely just ending after the high peak, not so super impossible. E.g. a friend of her's works for the commuity/city administration and didn't even graduate highschool.... So what's the point in telling me I had no chance with a grammar school graduation (Abitur, that'd be I think regularely one year more than highschool) and 3 years studying law (admittingly that's not finished but wil be paused by the time the K1 clears) as well as several voluntaries (hosting a youth group, amnesty international, fire fighters) and ultimatevly 9 months of experience in working with mentally handiapped children in a special school... How's that for a job profile even though no state exam law degree? I studied more than most people in her community do their whole life long and those people found jobs too so stop giving me s**t duhhh... Sorry kindof self-arguing here I know for. ex. that the working with handicapped people field has a current demand for workers. Again no bigass degree and certficate on a neat lil diploma sort of document which shows I'm the super expert (that is SO horribly terribly German thinking!!! *pukes*) but lots of practical experience and personality

Anyrate how did you handle it? If we have a thread on here I just didn't find yet feel free to be lazy to just drop a link on the matter or tell me which keywords on the search surely find one

Oh I hear you. I think everyone was a little worried when they found out I met a USC and just couldn't stop talking about it.

Earlier this morning I saw this quote of Edward Thomas in someone's signature and it seemed as though it was speaking straight from my heart: "The simple lack of him (orig. her) is more to me than others' presence."

There is no question about leaving behind your family and friends - even though you love them - when there's this one person halfway around the globe that you can't stop thinking about - and that's why (most) everyone here is doing this.

I lived with my parents up until a couple of months ago (that sounds really lame but I did it for the visa) and I was the last one to leave the nest - believe me, there was some serious tear shedding - from both sides. I'm going to miss seeing my niece grow up and it was tough seeing how much people actually cared about me leaving but I'd made this choice to come live in the US and I am glad I did it.

I think marriage and migration are two way separate things that you deal with on two completely different emotional levels but I can see how some people could say that. For me, it wasn't the question whether I was ready to immigrate to a whole new country, rather than just a given - I wanted to be with this person and he just so happened to live in the US.

It was interesting to see how e.g. my best friend was the one to constantly question my decision to leave - because we had in fact been inseparable for the past 16 years and all she wanted for me was to be happy - and she really made sure my husband would make me happy.

There's no remedy for feeling homesick. You're going to miss home and you're going to feel out of place and that's just how it is. The US is so different from most countries in so many ways, D included. There's a point where you realize that you're not just on vacation anymore.. you're building a life - and finding employment is going to be a b!tch, let alone making enough money to make a decent living without a good paying job.

I for one know that I will go back to school and do what I really enjoy (I was stuck in a career that I did not want to pursue myself) and I know that it'll be tough (and expensiiiive) but this is the right place for people with a lot of determination and will power.

I always say how I wasn't abducted to Mars or anything - there's still trains and planes to see me again. And thank god there's Skype! Seriously.. think back 10 years and go figure..

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Greetings!

Colorado is a nice place to live. It's arguably not as nice as sunny California, but must certainly rank among the US's Top 10. Your writing skills in English are already quite good and the fact that you study Law in the Fatherland proves that you are an educated person. Unfortunately, US and German law are conceptual as different as coffee and tea, thus none of what you learned so far can formally be transferred to the New World.

Still, I'm sure you'll find something meaningful to do with your life, something that satisfies you personally, challenges you intellectually, and helps to pay the bills. You are still young, so you most likely will go back to school (we call all of this "school") at some point.

Usually, immigrants fall for the most part into one of two categories:

- those who have a hard time settling into their new environment with a (for them) strange language and habits, always missing Sauterkraut and Knödel, or

- those who quickly feel comfortable and make the US their home. I belong to the second category, haven't been back to Germany since 1994.

Welcome to America!

[KitEEgirl 0]

Hello!

Good luck to you both! My name is Nicole, and I am the USC. My husband Marco and I have been married for a little over 2 years.........The crying, begging, etc won't stop.. I can promise. Everytime we go visit Germany, I feel like I'm a horrible person for taking him away........but at the end of the day we know we are happy and did the right thing.. People will get over it and realize you have to live your life... just give it some time!

[Aubrey 10]

Welcome to VJ. I'm sure you'll find that it is a wonderful resource. It definitely helped us tremendously.

Sorry to hear that your family/friends don't want you to go. It will for sure make your journey more difficult (and I'm sorry to say that the waiting and paperwork is usually difficult in itself), but try to keep the big picture in mind during those troubling times. I imagine that many of them will understand when they see that you've happily settled in with your spouse in the USA.

Feel free to PM people here if you have specific questions about the process or Frankfurt consulate, etc. I have been amazed by the kindness and friendships I've found here, and you will be, too. Also, ignore the haters that lurk. People get pretty feisty when they miss their loved ones or when they've forgotten how hard the process was.

Good luck!

[Severina 7]

Hey Mike,

I find your posts most refreshing and inspiring. Well, I'm not such a young German gal (43 yrs) any more but still I have made the decision to leave my home and country to live in the US. My fiance and I had been friends for 23 years before we madly fell in love 2 years ago. It was hard to make the decision to leave I admit it especially since my parents are getting old now and I have no siblings. There are times when I'm still overwhelmed by guilt. My parents took it well if you can say that. Of course, I could tell that they were worried when I came back from my trip to Michigan 2 years ago much happier than I had been when I was leaving . At first I was sure I couldn't leave but then it was my parents who told me to go cause they want me to be happy. It touches me when they tell me that they don't want me to be lonely when they will be gone some day. I know it's an incredible sacrifice for them and for this I love them all the more. In addition to that I got only support from my friends. EVERYBODY told me to leave Germany and be happy. Might be also because everybody loves my fiance and that no one can really say that we are rushing things . So we filed for K1 at the end of June and are waiting...

I can really relate to what you say about your job. I feel that I'm stuck in a treadmill every day. By now I just HATE being an executive secretary . I'm going to America because of my fiance who I love dearly (before that I wouldn't have thought about immigrating to the US, not even in wildest dreams ) but I'm also looking at it as a chance to start a completely new life. I hope I will find work which I will like and which will satisfy me. I studied languages, English and Spanish to be precise and I'm sure that this will work in my favor. Maybe I can even be a language teacher, anything is better than what I have now. A little bit I'm still believing in the American dream and in the quality of the famous German efficiency .

So yeah I will go for it! We will see what will happen. In the end it's a big adventure

Edited July 21, 2010 by Severina

[M and A 2011 0]

K so I have to multiquote you guys woahwoahweewah interesting new feature to me.

As the number of quoted blocks is limited I'll add lil' [numbers] into your quotes at things I want to reply on and write the accrding response under the quote to the same [number]. Got it? kthx and let's go (sorry that's long but that's what I get for not being around a day lol)

[1]Oh I hear you. I think everyone was a little worried when they found out I met a USC and just couldn't stop talking about it.

Earlier this morning I saw this quote of Edward Thomas in someone's signature and it seemed as though it was speaking straight from my heart: "The simple lack of him (orig. her) is more to me than others' presence."

[2]There is no question about leaving behind your family and friends - even though you love them - when there's this one person halfway around the globe that you can't stop thinking about - and that's why (most) everyone here is doing this.

[3]I lived with my parents up until a couple of months ago (that sounds really lame but I did it for the visa) and I was the last one to leave the nest - believe me, there was some serious tear shedding - from both sides. I'm going to miss seeing my niece grow up and it was tough seeing how much people actually cared about me leaving but I'd made this choice to come live in the US and I am glad I did it.

[4]I think marriage and migration are two way separate things that you deal with on two completely different emotional levels but I can see how some people could say that. For me, it wasn't the question whether I was ready to immigrate to a whole new country, rather than just a given - I wanted to be with this person and he just so happened to live in the US.

It was interesting to see how e.g. my best friend was the one to constantly question my decision to leave - because we had in fact been inseparable for the past 16 years and all she wanted for me was to be happy - and she really made sure my husband would make me happy.

[5]There's no remedy for feeling homesick. You're going to miss home and you're going to feel out of place and that's just how it is. The US is so different from most countries in so many ways, D included. There's a point where you realize that you're not just on vacation anymore.. you're building a life - and finding employment is going to be a b!tch, let alone making enough money to make a decent living without a good paying job.

I for one know that I will go back to school and do what I really enjoy (I was stuck in a career that I did not want to pursue myself) and I know that it'll be tough (and expensiiiive) but this is the right place for people with a lot of determination and will power.

[6]I always say how I wasn't abducted to Mars or anything - there's still trains and planes to see me again. And thank god there's Skype! Seriously.. think back 10 years and go figure..

Hey again krautlaus,

[1] Ye currently I get calls and drama daily.. Mum, Dad, uncle everyone... They are all all kinds of sad and desperate and what not... I understand and it kinda hurts me but I have been thinking a while what I WANT and what I definately NOT WANT no more with my life and thought this decision through well enough to be absolutely sure that I want my life to have this very ceisure at this point and that means going to live with Amber and pursuit happiness. Rather than burnout and wreck my health in a tough job while constantly suffering under the seperation feeling from my beloved

[2] And yes despite all the resistance and bad feelings (of course I love my family; they've been there for all my life and loved me and cared for me) I need to stay tough and defend the decision I made for me and my life after what I strongly am convinced is a mature process of determined pro and contra thinking of physical and psychical health vs. career perfection and a system of values people try to force on me that I don't share no more.

[3] I don't blame ya for living with your parents, that's a'OK. It surely made sense in your situation too. I myself am thinking I'll offer parents, family and close friends (those who are worth it) extra and special times to spend with me, something they can enjoy and remember long after I left for a while. So they don't suffer too bad from the "sudden" lost. However, at this point I don't think I want to go back LIVING with them. I expect that to be too much damn drama and control issues. So ya... That's the compromise I'm thinking right now. At least until they calmed down and let the drama and hard feelings go. I knew those were comming and struggled to confront them with the fact that I (really really) want to go to the U.S. ... but it had to come out and now it is and ya there's pain and misery but there always will be somehow in life.

[4] Yes in the first place what drives me is the unquestioned will and security of how I WANT to be WITH her. And lucky enough... The U.S. knows me and I it seeing that by the time we'll file I've been over a total of (hope I did that math right) 36 weeks in 10 years of which 9 are actual living there. So I don't only love the woman but also the place Enough of a reason to go there I believe.

[5] I cannot garantue I WON't be homesick. What WILL make it (presuming it does happen) easier is that I am indeed quite used to being, even living in the U.S. and didn't personally experience it to be ohsovery different from livestyle in Germany (despite the things I don't like about the Vaterland and I think are way better over there). I don't believe that I'll spend much of a hard time feeling home in the U.S. in the arms of my (then) wife and with that awesome lil' (then) 4 year old girl I both love to the death

[6] Oh gosh my parents are so the pre-internet-generation ohmygod.... My father to the day doubts that I could have a serious relationship with a woman 5000 miles apart using a computer even though I can type, talk, can see her and do mutual (virtual) activities from playing games over watching a movie or T.V. series *cough* uhm legally and ye well reading the news and youthinkwhateverelsewemightdo together His point is that none of that is real and could be real emotionwise and basically is a huge piece of pointless b**lsh*t and for sure for sure not a loving relationship. Well he's beyond 50 in age and I don't think I will ever suceed in changing his views. I however believe that as soon as I am gone and the day will come they will not only start to appreciate the technical opportunities of the net, but also start to understand how I hated being seperated from Amber (kinda, of course different relationship between boyfriend-girfriend and parents-son) meh you'll figure out what I mean...

Greetings!

[1]Colorado is a nice place to live. It's arguably not as nice as sunny California, but must certainly rank among the US's Top 10. [2]Your writing skills in English are already quite good and the fact that you study Law in the Fatherland proves that you are an educated person. [3]Unfortunately, US and German law are conceptual as different as coffee and tea, thus none of what you learned so far can formally be transferred to the New World.

[4]Still, I'm sure you'll find something meaningful to do with your life, something that satisfies you personally, challenges you intellectually, and helps to pay the bills. You are still young, so you most likely will go back to school (we call all of this "school") at some point.

[5]Usually, immigrants fall for the most part into one of two categories:

- those who have a hard time settling into their new environment with a (for them) strange language and habits, always missing Sauterkraut and Knödel, or

- those who quickly feel comfortable and make the US their home. I belong to the second category, haven't been back to Germany since 1994.

[6]Welcome to America!

Hey Bob,

[1] I'd sure love to "argue" that friendlyly with some cold beer and a BBQ one day ;P For sure nothing wrong with Cali been there (twice) and liked it. On the other hand I'm quite happy with that love fell - from all thinkable places in the world - to Colorado too as I just think that state purely rocks and I'll be proud inhibiting it not too far from now.

[2] Yeeehawww thank'ye for 'e good ol' compliment on ma writing sk1llz yo! hehehe

[3]Hehe and ye you're quite right and I totally agree that my law knowledges as such are worth nothing there (despite if I get super lucky and some lawyer happens to be specialized on German Law and can use my expertise as paralegal or what not Laters might be finding a lil' business of my own in which I could consult U.S. companies in German economy, law and what not for when they want to settle there (as well) and so on and so forth) I believe that learning something and expertise is never a one-way road. Despite that I'll use some study time while the visa is pending on taking the offer of a beginner's course in U.S. Law (entirely English of course) my University offers. Whatever the results are in the end; the overall experience and effort to adjust before migrating should be appreciated, at least by the offices and preferably also by employers...

[4] And if not I also agree and have no problem on finding something else that will satisfy me in terms of work and pay the bills (together with wifey's income). More stations of my life that can be handy here (as in personal qualifications): I worked in IT support (you know helpdesk stuff like "uhh my printer won't work come fix"), manufacturing (that is "by hand" ) montage of complex tools for the glass industry, monitoring and educating youth groups, work with mentally handicapped children, paralegal work, a promotion job ... All of that was fun and fulfilling I could easily pick up on any of that again or adjust to a whole new field. I'm young, flexible, willing to work. And I fight for my dreams in patience.

[5] Dude I am beyond sure I'm a #2 category person too you betcha haha

[6] ... land of the free and home of the brave God bless and man I can't wait to hear that sentence on my POE and much more read it in the welcome letter...

Hello!

Good luck to you both! My name is Nicole, and I am the USC. My husband Marco and I have been married for a little over 2 years.........The crying, begging, etc won't stop.. I can promise. Everytime we go visit Germany, I feel like I'm a horrible person for taking him away........but at the end of the day we know we are happy and did the right thing.. People will get over it and realize you have to live your life... just give it some time!

Hi KitEE,

ye Amber is feeling terrible already way before she "took" me for good... I'm trying to reassure her. And I myself think too we do the right thing.

[1]Welcome to VJ. I'm sure you'll find that it is a wonderful resource. It definitely helped us tremendously.

[2]Sorry to hear that your family/friends don't want you to go. It will for sure make your journey more difficult (and I'm sorry to say that the waiting and paperwork is usually difficult in itself), but try to keep the big picture in mind during those troubling times. [3] I imagine that many of them will understand when they see that you've happily settled in with your spouse in the USA.

[4]Feel free to PM people here if you have specific questions about the process or Frankfurt consulate, etc. I have been amazed by the kindness and friendships I've found here, and you will be, too. Also, ignore the haters that lurk. People get pretty feisty when they miss their loved ones or when they've forgotten how hard the process was.

Good luck!

Hello Aubrey,

[1] I agree already. Been researching much on the net and the intensety and quantity (and quality) of personal experiences [+ example forms, flowcharts, guides, the FAQ's and what not) I found here turned out to be so very awesome for me already. Nothing, really nothing can beat all that. Hence I signed up to join the party - yo know not only consumption but also participation.

[2] My friends (those who always cared for me and were close, not the casual "you're not interesting to us as you don't party with us no more ever since you got a [hot] girlfriend" kind of fools who don't matter much to me) more so have my back and encourage me. They care for my being happy. And they know how to keep in touch too I have the big pic in mind, and it's my ultimate goal I strave to achive and fight for.

[3] Yes I think so too. My parents, currently the strongest resistance against my wish, might even be proud seeing I MADE it and I'll have made it ALONE (as far as they are concerned, of course I appreciate nice people's help and Amber's all into the process too of course).

[4] I will and look forward to. Thanks.

Hey Mike,

[1]I find your posts most refreshing and inspiring. Well, [2] I'm not such a young German gal (43 yrs) any more but still I have made the decision to leave my home and country to live in the US. [3] My fiance and I had been friends for 23 years before we madly fell in love 2 years ago. [4] It was hard to make the decision to leave I admit it especially since my parents are getting old now and I have no siblings. There are times when I'm still overwhelmed by guilt. [5] My parents took it well if you can say that. Of course, I could tell that they were worried when I came back from my trip to Michigan 2 years ago much happier than I had been when I was leaving. At first I was sure I couldn't leave but then it was my parents who told me to go cause they want me to be happy. It touches me when they tell me that they don't want me to be lonely when they will be gone some day. [6] I know it's an incredible sacrifice for them and for this I love them all the more.[7] In addition to that I got only support from my friends. EVERYBODY told me to leave Germany and be happy. Might be also because everybody loves my fiance and that no one can really say that we are rushing things. [8] So we filed for K1 at the end of June and are waiting...

[9] I can really relate to what you say about your job. I feel that I'm stuck in a treadmill every day. By now I just HATE being an executive secretary.[10] I'm going to America because of my fiance who I love dearly (before that I wouldn't have thought about immigrating to the US, not even in wildest dreams) but I'm also looking at it as a chance to start a completely new life.[11] I hope I will find work which I will like and which will satisfy me. [12] I studied languages, English and Spanish to be precise and I'm sure that this will work in my favor. [13] Maybe I can even be a language teacher, anything is better than what I have now. [14] A little bit I'm still believing in the American dream and in the quality of the famous German efficiency.

[15] So yeah I will go for it! We will see what will happen. In the end it's a big adventure

Hello Severina,

[1] Awwwe thanks always good to know that people for the very least enjoy my work efforts I feel awesome when getting responses as well. I am what you could call a "communication junkie" hahaha

[2] Age is just a number. Never too old for falling in love, being in love, or making life-changing decisions and big moves. It's all about how you FEEL. And I can tell that stuff like that keeps you YOUNG.

[3] Awwwe that's so awesomely romantic <3 !! I love it. YAY for YOU people.

[4] ya kindof the same thing here my parent's wont get younger and of course it'S tough for them especially as I am their eldest and firstborn (more so first adopted, but that's details ) and overall only child.

[5] ya same thing here I undertook a trip to Colorado, came back and was all kinds of happy (at least after I got over crying like a sissy lala 3 year old girl for hours cuz I had to turn around and leave my Schatzilove and lil munchkin behind at the airport). Way more general happiness than before having been with them. And then more and more bad feelings about being here. I am sure everybody at least had a slight sense for what was happening and now results in "THA MOVE". AT least could have, maybe did, "smell" it

[6] Yes, and they will be ready for it at some point. of course I can't for sure tell how I will be thinking in 20 or 30 years but for now I've sworn to myself to be all kinds of liberal and supporting to any of my children if one at some day came up and wanted to do something like that; presuming I'm convinced at that's what they really want (like me right now) and have thougt it through (yup) and it's good for them (oh yaaah).

[7] Yes my friends have my back too and that's awesome.

[8] Oh wow best of luck for the K1 for you guys. YAY!!! You'll make it.

[9] Oh ye the treadmill, the suffer, the effing same sh*t every day while you have no one (good enough in comparision to your true love) to look forward coming home to, to do all that for. Knowing they are so far away... And then the work as such is maybe not the right thing for you (such I feel for Laws meanwhile)... It's hellish... Stay strong girl!

[10] yes for that and that's oh so worth makeing the move.

[11] I hope that for you too Keep looking and it'll fall into your lap one day.

[12] Awesome. Yes I myself believe too that everything that you did in jobs, studies and voluntary work is gonna be a plus. Times sitting home on your butt is a minus. The less of those the better the job chance Everything done has a purpose... and everything done in life is something you can SELL.

[13] SIGNED. ANYTHING is better than the current humbug. I wish for you to find a pleasingful, fun, awesome and sufficiently paying job.

[14] Me too I am dreaming the American Dream and belief in the German efficiency, also the disipline, and what not. Quality made in Germany... we'll rock; no doubts.

[15] You go for it too And yes it is exciting and adventurous. A real thrill with an ohso happy end.

Kind Regards y'all,

Michael

(and wow composing that post took a while lol)

[Bus40luv 2]

Hey Mike,

I am the lucky American guy that Severina loves. When I read what she wrote you I got a lump in my throat. I feel very very fortunate to have someone I love so much love me enough to go through what she is going through.To leave all that she has known, and all those she loves, well It can be very humbling. But mostly I feel very blessed.

You sound like a great guy Mike and I wish you and your little family all the best. I think you will prosper in the USA. If I ran a company here I would very happily hire Germans I lived in Heidelberg for 4 years back some time ago and I was always very impressed with the German people. I was especially impressed one cold December day in 1985 when I turned around on that bus and saw the most beautiful smile I have ever seen in my life. Cupid scored a bulls eye on me that day I never forgot that girl. And to be engaged and actually going through this K1 process all these years later is a miracle to me everyday. The USA will be a better place with you in it, and with my fiancee in it. And with all the German people on here who will leave their homeland for the chance at love and happiness. I say welcome to you all, I hope we make you feel at home. Oh and by the way I like the way you threw that "y'all in there. Severina has been practicing a little southern accent and it absolutely melts me Well we are all on a great adventure, even those of us who will be staying home, making a new home and life with our German loves

Best Wishes Mike,

Greg

[M and A 2011 0]

Hey there Greg

hehe ye I learned the London lingo highly formal English in school of course but dude that ain't real life. My language got some NICE additions under the influence of my awesome Texas-born Coloradoian fiancee (needless to say ever since I speak and type it daily I got significantly better even...?) so I admittedly swear a lil' more and sure are slangy here and there but hey that'll make me less obvious in the melting pot crowd, right?

And yes for sure it's a big big step and bla but hey... we wouldn't wanna do it if we didn't think it through right? Me and her (your fiancee, not mine, well her too in that matter) surely aren't different when it comes to being sure it is EXACTLY what we WANT

I love seeing how you made good experiences with the German folks... unfortunately not all people think that way about "us".. but ya. Loved your post overall, I think Sev. and you are gonna make a great couple I don't know what else to say... I'm a bit speechless. You flattered me much.

Everything else I can think is all the very best for your K1 process and right on a bright future for (extra for you now) Y'ALL

Best wishes,

Mike

PS: I'll quote your above statement about hiring whenever I happen to find out you found a business and I still seek employment eventually

Edited July 21, 2010 by M and A 2011

[Bus40luv 2]

Hey there Greg

hehe ye I learned the London lingo highly formal English in school of course but dude that ain't real life. My language got some NICE additions under the influence of my awesome Texas-born Coloradoian fiancee (needless to say ever since I speak and type it daily I got significantly better even...?) so I admittedly swear a lil' more and sure are slangy here and there but hey that'll make me less obvious in the melting pot crowd, right?

And yes for sure it's a big big step and bla but hey... we wouldn't wanna do it if we didn't think it through right? Me and her (your fiancee, not mine, well her too in that matter) surely aren't different when it comes to being sure it is EXACTLY what we WANT

I love seeing how you made good experiences with the German folks... unfortunately not all people think that way about "us".. but ya. Loved your post overall, I think Sev. and you are gonna make a great couple I don't know what else to say... I'm a bit speechless. You flattered me much.

Everything else I can think is all the very best for your K1 process and right on a bright future for (extra for you now) Y'ALL

Best wishes,

Mike

PS: I'll quote your above statement about hiring whenever I happen to find out you found a business and I still seek employment eventually

Thank you Mike for you nice reply. Your doing well with your nice Texas fiancee influenced language flavorings. My Sev. also likes to refer to me as her "Dude" which I love. Perhaps someday down the road after all of this red tape is done for us all we can meet sometime. I lived in Texas for a year, in Ft. Worth. I've only passed through Colorado, it's truly a beautiful land. I live in Michigan and I am glad that Severina doesn't mind it here. It's not as beautiful as the area around HD, but there is no more beautiful place than that place where you are with the one you love. The truth is she has only seen the area of Michigan where I live, it's a big state with lots of beautiful scenery, and lots of water and beaches. So I hope to show her more of this area. We have taken a couple of really nice road trips in the US, and in Canada together. Maybe we'll find our way to Colorado someday down the road. Until then y'all take now ya hear

Greg

[Severina 7]

Hey Mike, thanks for your reply, amazing how you did that - very German , hach, we really are efficient . I'm glad you "met" my wonderful fiance, the light of my life. Well, have a good day y'all and good luck to all of you!

[M and A 2011 0]

If we keep that y'all'ing up we soon go like that guys

(I love the BoomChicago parodies! )