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Immigration bureaucracy keeps couple separated
By David Irvin
Montgomery Advertiser
A bearded Jacob Brooks was moving fast Monday afternoon, dropping mail door to door on Capri Street as dogs growled from behind their mesh fences.
Brooks learned to move fast the hard way. As a foot soldier in the Iraq War, the 26-year-old was regularly inundated with mortars, rocket attacks and suicide bombings. In one bloody day in July 2004, he earned a medal for calling in a half-dozen airstrikes on insurgent groups during a daylong street battle.
But being able to move fast won't get him anywhere with immigration services. Getting his wife Luba Brooks, a German citizen, out of Europe is a long, frustrating process that's getting under his skin.
"If my wife isn't over here by January of next year, I'm leaving and I ain't coming back," said Brooks, who has only spent four months with his wife since they married in 2003.
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By David Irvin
Montgomery Advertiser
A bearded Jacob Brooks was moving fast Monday afternoon, dropping mail door to door on Capri Street as dogs growled from behind their mesh fences.
Brooks learned to move fast the hard way. As a foot soldier in the Iraq War, the 26-year-old was regularly inundated with mortars, rocket attacks and suicide bombings. In one bloody day in July 2004, he earned a medal for calling in a half-dozen airstrikes on insurgent groups during a daylong street battle.
But being able to move fast won't get him anywhere with immigration services. Getting his wife Luba Brooks, a German citizen, out of Europe is a long, frustrating process that's getting under his skin.
"If my wife isn't over here by January of next year, I'm leaving and I ain't coming back," said Brooks, who has only spent four months with his wife since they married in 2003.
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