He is growing so fast Vi... I can't believe I am planning his first year already!!

Being a mom is the most amazing thing!! I love it!!!

Pictures!!!!! Please!!!

A couple...

Mag

Very cute pictures....... love his little teeth.

Glad you guys were able to get to Peru and have some time alone........

How was flying that distance with the little one.

THank you!!

The flight was great, we didnt have any issue or a crying baby... which made both of us very happy and proud, hehehe...

One thing I would recommend is flying during the day, on the way back Christopher was really cranky because it was past his bedtime and he was around lots of people with lots of noise at the airport. Another thing is that we bought him a seat, he was in his car seat looking around just happy, he felt he was in the car(I assume)... I took him out of it a few times and he just wanted to climb back in... During the layover he didnt take a nap, he just wanted to see everything!! But as soon as we got in the next plane he passed out!!

Great to hear he was a joy to travel with.

Melissa

What about the languages???? Is the baby learning both???
Are you having any problem with that? I don't have babies but I'm prepared with my "Yola" and 'Nubeluz" Cd's jajajaja.
Did Chris like Cusco?

take care
Vi

I don't know about Chris, but *I* liked Cusco. Well, aside from the ladies who would chase after me trying to sell stuff...they would ignore my husband but come after me because I'm so white. Then I'll tell them, "You need to talk to him!" and they'd ease off

Cuzco is a great place....... alot of friendly people and just all and all FUN, FUN, FUN

HAPPY EASTER fellow Peruvian / Americans

Felices Pascuas everybody!!

Yeah, Cusco is so much fun, I lived there after I finished school, it was an awesome experience and Athena I agree with you, whenever they saw Sil they chased him but when they saw me they run . Everytime I tried to buy some sourvenir I had to tell Sil to stay away from me.
The same thing happened to us is Lima but not at any indian market but in Miraflores or in some club, just to think about it makes me laugh. Girls trying to flirt with my hubby (I COULDN'T LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!! not even if I had to go to the bathroom) , of course they dissapeared as soon as they saw my angry face.

Take care people!!
Vi

I went to Aura in Miraflores...that was a fun club but lots of girls flirting with my husband too!

I was talking about AURA!!! HAHAHAHAHA.

I LOVED AURA...except we went on thursday, and girls get in free (which is why we went but whatever) and there were TOO MANY flirty Peruvian girls! I met some nice girls in line for the bathroom though, but I was drunk so I was talking to anyone. (Bathroom wait was like a half hr.)

Aura is not really for me, dont like the music

Aura is my favotite club in Lima, another good one but is not really a club is Mama Batata in Larcomar too. I can't wait to goo back to Peru and party!!!
We just came back from a peruvian restaurant, we had a ceviche mixto to share, Sil ordered anticuchos with choclo peruano and I ordered "camarons empanizados" yummy yummy .

Good night!
Vi

Good night to everybody. Im very happy cause Ive found here a sub forum like these with peruvian people! Well Im not living in USA yet but I plan to cause we have started our application procedure on march 17,2008 for a k1 visa. So we re crossing fingers that everything is ok and we can be together very very soon...

My fiancee lives in Salem, Oregon, he told me that this is a beautiful city, full of nature and enormous green areas, so Im so excited thinking in my life there, of course I know that it wont be easy to change my life from Lima where I live now to Salem, but Im totally possitive that I will feel good with my baby help. He is so sweet and patient, so that will help me a lot.

Well, I hope that we stay in touch here, Im sure I will need some help from you for knowing some details about moving to USA, some places where I could buy maybe peruvian ingredients when I live in USA, also nice restaurants -cause Im pretty sure that after my family, the most I will miss from Peru will be the food-, etc

Kisses kisses....

Angela (my fiancee's name is James )

We went to Batata's too ... it was nice but it was my third night of partying in a row and my feet hurt and there were some weird guys by the bathroom that were bothering me ...

I like Aura the best

We are going to a Peruvian restaurant with our Bolivian friend (whose husband left her yesterday ) to get pollo a la brasa or as we say "PERUVIAN CHICKEN!"

Hi Everybody!!

Welcome Angela, I'm sure that you will find alot of good advice and good friends on this site, Bienvenida a Visa Journey!!!!!!

Athena, yes, peruvian people like to party alot!!! ok, maybe not everybody most of the people love to celebarte .
We are getting ready to go for dinner to my in laws, they are having an special dinner and I'm making "canchita" plus "chicha morada" to bring there, they love them there.

Time to, Happy Easter to everybody!!!

Hugs
Vi

Hi Peru people,

My name is Dani and I am married with peruvian, you probably saw me around here on VJ.com . Reading your post Vi I would like to add that I like chicha morada and didnt know that I can find in a regular store (international section), but thing is it was very expensive and unfortunatly I didnt buy it:lol: (0.250 L) was $1.50 and 2 L. Inca Cola $1.99, I mean big difference and not fair at all.

We buy the corn at the Mexican store that has Peruvian products and make our own chicha That is expensive though - I have our BIL send us the mix.

Don't even bother with the Inca Kola, it's bottled in Clifton, New Jersey and made with high fructose corn syrup like most American sodas. Meaning it doesn't taste as good as the kind in Peru, and is just as harmful as regular American soda- http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda/cornsyrup.html details why HFCS is not good for your body.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...FDGS24VKMH1.DTL - another article
(Can you tell I've cut HFCS out of my diet?)
So, I only drink Inca Kola when I can get the real kind, ever since I came back from Peru. How expensive they make it here also irritates me, because it's not even imported, Coca Cola since buying them just bottles it stateside and charges more for nothing.

Though, if you do want to drink it even if it isn't the same, I can get it for 1.70 or so at the small Mexican stores that have some Peruvian products. It's more expensive in the regular grocery stores. You aren't going to find it for the 3 soles you can get it for in Peru, regardless.

I work in Clifton, NJ and at our local Shoprite INKA Cola 2L is $1.09

I am so happy guys, just called NVC and they told me our case is completed!!!

Dani

Hi!!!! How re you today?? I hope very fine. My baby and me are so happy cause yesterday we got our NOA1 so imagine that we feel so excited thinking that this journey is going very well. Only wanted to share that with all of you and I hope that very soon I can share also my new experiences living in USA - Oregon with my husband!

Take care... kisses

Angela & James

Congratulations Danny&Enrique!!!!!

And Vi, thanks very much, Im sure that i will find here very good friends for sharing experiences and feelings about living in USA.

Kisses to all of you!

Angela & James

That's not fair! Makes sense, though, I guess.

Please sneak into the factory and replace all HFCS with azucar. Thank you.

WELL MY WIFE WILL FINALLY COME HERE ON THURSDAY!!! . SHE HAS HER PASSPORT and the envelope with her now. I AM VERY ANXIOUS!!!!

Congrats Martin!! Your wifey si going to be here very very soon, just tell her to bring plenty of peruvian products.

We do get Inc Kola at our local supermarket -PATHMARK- and we pay about $2.00 per bottle. My mom sends me chocolates and PRODUCTOS PROVENZAl too, in Peru I paid about $1.20 per bag and here I have to pay $3.50 not fair at all but what else can I do???

Angela If you still in Peru enjoy as much as you can, spend alot of time with your family and friends.

Gotta go guys
Good night!
Vi

We have Mirko's brother Challe (er, short for Carlos, I guess) sends us stuff every once in a while ... and we just hope they don't steal it when it comes through customs

Our friend from Bolivia was telling us that when her husband came back from Bolivia (well, he'll be her ex soon enough) at Miami, he had 60 empanadas in his bags (wtf, I thought that was ridiculous) and since the box they checked had meat they took them all. And it's easier to get stuff through the airport (at least for us) than through the mail ... sometimes if someone in his family (and they're a huge family so there's always someone) is coming to the US for a visit or has come to Peru for a visit, they'll pay them to bring stuff back and then mail it here so that customs won't get it.

When Mirko came back, he brought me Peruvian wine AND pisco! But since the last time I went overboard on the pisco sours, I'm a little scared to open the pisco.

One main thing to bring from LIMA is MEDICINA!!

I don't want medicine from Lima. If my husband keeps popping antibiotics the way he has been, he'll get a super bacterial bug that nothing will kill. I'm going to all measures to keep the medicine IN Lima.

Hi everybody!!! How re you doing? Here in Lima everything is ok, without news, only that the weather is changing, from sunny days to windy days but we know that its normal on this time of the year, considering that winter is very close.

Dear Vi, yes Im still in Lima, thanks for your advice about enjoying as much as I can, time with my family and friends, for sure, thats the most that Im doing now, cause I know then when I travel to USA I will miss them a lot ....

Kisses....

Angela

Angela, what part of Lima are you from?

My husband is from San Borja

Hi Athena... Im from San Miguel, close to Plaza San Miguel (its a big mall), maybe your husband has been there some time Then I met a wonderful american guy and we re right now in all process about gettin Visa K1 for marrying in USA asap So tell me, your husband is now addapted to his new life in USA? What dioes he miss the most here? Im pretty sure that I will miss of course my family, and then the food, its delicious!!!!

Kisses...

Angela

We were at Plaza San Miguel when we just visited his nephew and niece live near there with their mother.

Well, I met him after he had already been here a while; he entered on a tourist visa, so we did not do the K-1 or K-3 process. What he misses the most is his family, and surfing and how there is so much to do there - when visiting there was also someone to go visit or somewhere to walk around, and here I don't think there is so much of that. Also, the people in Peru he feels are a lot nicer, though he's met a lot of nice people here, he's also had some incidents where people were mean/rude because he's Hispanic, which he's struggled with, so he obviously misses the fact that he feels like he fits in more in Lima. Real Inca Kola, real chicha morada, pisco sours, cheap ceviche.

I'm not from there, but I miss fresh, cheap alfajores He misses turrones.

You speak English pretty well (at least written) so you won't have as much trouble as he did with that - he came here not planning to stay but his dad who was on a work visa died, and he had to stay to take care of that and learn English as efficiently as possible.

He often gets frustrated here - everything is money money money, like we had to buy 2 cars so we can just get to work, because many US cities do not have good public transportation (as I'm sure you'll find), and going somewhere is so easy in Lima, so he misses that (however, doesn't miss the way people drive there! ) If you/your spouse have advanced degrees, it's a lot easier, but we're both working on our's now - got married young, hehe.

So while he's adapted at this point, and is okay with being here because I am, he loves Lima more - someday I'd like for us to be able to go back and live there

Hi Athina, thanks for your answer... Well, yes, you have said some things that I will miss also when I travel to USA for living there. Of course for peruvians is common to find a bus or a taxi in any corner or street, and its also normal to have lots of things to do, visiting a friend or family, going to a restaurant, cinema, theatre, dancing discos, the zoo, cause everything is close and on the same area ... As my almost husband always says: "In Oregon you will have very quiet and calm life, cause in comparison with Lima, Salem is a very small and quiet city" Imagine than here in Lima we have eight million people and in Salem is only one hundred fifty thousand people!!!!!! So Im sure I will be quiet and happy with my love but at least at the begginig I will miss the noise, the cosmopolitan life here, the Lima smell

My baby also has told me that we will try to get some peruvian food when its possible, cause he loves it too! He is fascinated with all our main dishes, the Inca Kola, and Lucumas flavor. Dont know if you have tasted on your visits here lucuma icecream or some dessert with that fruit? For my love, thats amazing! He has thought that would be a nice idea trying to sow a lucuma tree in our future house Well maybe that would be a very nice experiment to raise a peruvian plant in american land... we will see what happens and then I will tell you

And yes, both of us have professional degree: Im lawyer and he is engineer. Maybe as you say, that could help me, but I must admit that Im a bit scared thinking about my possibilities as professional there considering that Im latin and dont know if I could have job opportunities for my career. But my love and me are very possitive always so we will find the best way to get a good job even if its not as lawyer at the beggining...

Well, your husbands name is Mirko, right? I think I have readen that here ... Kisses to both of you

Angela

Martin.................. Congratulations

Hey Guys!!

If you don't mind I would like to join this conversation. I'm peruvian too and came to this country about three years ago. I never thought about moving to this country, I felt that my life was complete in Lima, I have an awesome family, great career and great friends but when I met Sil (my hubby) he turned my life upside down. He proposed to me, we got married in Lima and after 6 months I got the Visa and came to NYC.
This is a huge city with a large hispanic comunity, now I can say that I have friends from all over the world.
I was very lucky because I got a job right away, not in my field that is tourism but something related, so don't worry Angela, I think that if you have your papers in order and speak english you will find plenty of oportunities here.

There are plenty of peruvian restaurants and bodegas here, not so close to my house but close enough. There are not taxis where I live, I take the train everyday to go to work, I work in Manhattan (or THE CITY) kind of a huge Miraflores, I like it alot because when I get bored I come back to the peace and quite of my home. I'm sure that in the beginning you will be a little surprise with the difference in the cost of living, here you can make alot of money but you spend alot too. Rent is pretty expensive comparing to the prices in Peru, I was in shock in the beginning but then you get used to that (1 BDR apartment could cost $1100a month)

Oh well, hope it helps. Hubby is calling me adn then we watch Magaly together.

Saludos
Vi

Yes, his name is Mirko ... he's named after a Russian uncle (by marriage) or some such. He's the 6th kid, I think his mom was running out of names (and she fought his dad - she didn't want more kids, so he jokes she was still mad when he was born )

I love anything with lucuma - at some specialty stores here (Florida) we can get the ice cream, but the fruit is very very very hard to find. I hope a tree would grow, but Oregon might be a little tricky.

You can get Inca Kola here, but it's not the same - sweetened with processed sweeteners and the like, but it does in a pinch.

With an advanced degree, I'm sure you'll be fine; while you probably won't be able to practice law (at least not right away, since you'd have to take the Oregon state bar), the fact you had an advanced degree should help you in other fields.

I prefer Peruvian food to most stereotypical "American" food - I cook some Peruvian food for him but he eats just about anything so I'm lucky

M was totally content with his life in Peru too; he was supposed to go to school and have a professional career and all that; which is why he gets so mad he had to come here and spend time here illegally, because then people think, "Oh you have nothing in your country," which is not true. He's not proud of how things worked out, but it's so hard to be embarrassed when it was because of his father's death. When I was in Peru, there were some unfortunate areas of the cities (both Lima and Cusco, only two cities we were able to visit), but I remember telling him, "I don't understand the idea that S. America is so poor and everyone wants to leave; it's possible to live great here, and be happier than you ever will be in the US"

Vi you're lucky to live in NYC because it's so multicultural; I am from ALbany and would not want to live in the city, but that is one benefit. That is the one thing I like about Miami, and I don't like much about that city. Tampa (where we are) has some Peruvian restaurants, and places that sell Peruvian products, so it's okay.

I was shocked in Peru how much a NICE apartment cost - so little compared to here! but I suppose people earn less, too? It's probably all relative. My sister in law's apartment/condo that they own in San Borja was only 60K she told me. I noticed that the apartments tended to be a lot smaller, though I'm not sure what an 1100 dollar apartment in NYC looks like these days. There is also more of a desire to have more STUFF even if you can't afford it in the US, I believe. My husband's family buys what they can afford, for the most part, and here we have loans for cars, loans for education, credit cards - I know credit exists in Peru, but is it as prevalent?

I came back to our apartment and went into the bedroom, when I got back from Peru, and it was a mess, with stuff everywhere because the dresser is broken and he hasn't fixed it, and I was like, "Whoa, it got bigger!" It didn't really, but it seemed so different to what I'd been dealing with the 2 weeks prior. Though I'm told a LOT of countries sprawl less than we do - smaller cars, smaller housing, smaller everything.

Athena (by the way, is that your real name???), I think you told me in the past that you are from Albany, Sil went to the U.of Albany he promised that he will take me there sometime, I think that he has a few friends that still living there.

About $$$, yeah, you know how expensive NYC could be, at first we thougt about moving to Manhattan but after Sil checked the prices we decided to stay away, a Studio could go for $1800!!! can you believe that ?????????????????? I have a friend that lives in the Upeer East Side and she pays for a 2 BDR apartment $5800 a month, that's ridiculous.
People definitely earn less money in Peru than here, when I mention salaries of $60,000 a year the get very surprised what they don't know is how much Uncle Sam gets from it. Over there we never mention how much we make a year but how much we make a month and usually we get pay once a month.

In our last trip we visited a cousin that just got married and bought a nice apartment in San Borja (are we talking about the same couple??) they live in a 2 BDR with a small patio where they can have BBQ's, a nice kitchen, big living living room and dining room, family room and a small room for the maid, they paid $65,000 for it and we Sil heard that he wanted to move to Lima. Something like that heere will be around $450,000 according to Sil.

Another thing that I don't see here are the girls that help around the house or as we say in Peru "empleadas" or maids, here a girl will charge about $80 a day to clean the apartment. In Peru I was ussed to have a maid but here? forget it!!! so I have to do everything with a very little help from hubby but I don't mind I love to clean my house. I try to cook peruvian food almost everyday and Sil loves it, I'm very lucky, he says that he is "peruano" and of course loves the Pisco Sour and Chicha morada .

I think the american society is more materialistic and in Peru we are more family oriented, that's one of the things that Sil loves about my culture. I miss the big family reunions , the parties (you are so right, in our last trip, all my aunts and uncles invited us to their houses for special dinners it was a little too overwhelming). He is italian so every celebration goes around the food, in Peru is the alcohol!!!! and we love it!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha. Oh before I forget, I miss the campings in the beach too.

Time to go!
good night again

Vi

Mirko tells me I am Peruvian

Oh, I went to school right down the road from SUNY Albany - at the College of Saint Rose. Sil probably knows where it is.

I need to learn how to cook more Peruvian things ... I know a few things but when my MIL leaves I know he will want Peruvian food more than I cook it now I know how to make ceviche and parihuela, the only thing I don't always like about Peruvian food is there's a lot of meat, and I don't eat too much meat. But I just make it for him and eat some vegetables

I think you're lucky that Sil likes Peruvian food and Angela is lucky her fiance does and yes, Mirko is lucky to have me his cousin who lives not far from here (we're not close to her for a lot of reasons, but we see her sometimes) tells us that her husband who is from Alabama, very southern and very country refuses to eat a lot of Peruvian food. He's like "I don't like rice, don't make that" and "I don't like this, don't make that" - how can you be that way when you have your food in the door to one of the best cuisines in the world?

Hey peruanos!

Today is my big day!! Wifey is due to the Airport in Newark by 11pm tonight! I am nervous, can barely work :'(

She is supposed to go through inmmigration in Miami at 1pm.. i am sweating like crazy!!!!

Dont worry Martin, everything is going to be ok, just relax and dont forget us. You can still come here on VJ and tell us news that are happening in your new chapter of your life.

Dani

Hi guys!!!

Its very nice to see that Vi and Athena started a nice "conversation" here, and I would like to share or comment some things

Vi, yes, you re right, if I have my documents in order and I know to speak english maybe is easier for me to have job opportunities there. As I told to Athena in another post, its possible I wont get a job as attorney at the beggining cause I know its necessary to get the BAR Examination in Oregon, and Im sure I will study very hardly for getting it soon. But its possible that I can do some related things, work with kids -that I love- or help latin people in Salem OR, well, its lots of possibilities, right?

Then, I see that your husband loves peruvian traditions and food! thats wonderful!!! James also loves that, he was fascinated with different things in Lima but he said also that there are some things that he would not like never, for instance the disorder in traffic -well, the Caos!-, or the cosmopolitan side that means "lots of people!!!!". He is very quiet and comes from a quiet city, so he prefers to be with family or close friends, not more than that.

I also know for my fiancee that there is so expensive to hire a girl for cleaning or doing housekeeping, as we say "empleadas" here. For that reason Im conscious that my love and me will do our laundry and different kind of things in our home, of course I will cook normally peruvian food -thanks to my mother!!!! - thanks God James loves it. When he was here last january, he loved my mothers food cause he ate at home several times, so that means he will love also mine!

And you re right when you say that here in Peru we earn less money than in USA and for that reason the price of the apartments and houses are absolutely different than there. I know also that life there is expensive, and taxes are high, so the money is "invested" on living comfortable but paying taxes like "crazy" Well at least now here people can buy a very small apartment through a mortgage with local banks, I remember that some years ago that was very difficult. Now the possibility of a loan with mortgage is very high even for people that earn few few money, cause the government has introduced a plan for building very cheap apartments on a program called "Mi Vivienda"... But if you would see that apartments you would be impressed how small they re... 70 meters or less some times...

Athena! Well when I said that my baby would try to sow a lucuma tree in our yard was more a joke than true... But James has a common phrase in his life: "I will try", so Im pretty sure that when he will come here for picking me up and living in USA, he will get some lucumas seeds and he will try to sow them... Whats goind to happen? We dont know, but my husband will try (I love you baby!)

I cant believe that your friends husband doesnt like peruvian food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How is that????? If our food is delicious, as you said is one of the best in the world, and not only peruvians says that, the most of foreign people that come here loves peruvian cuisine and the international cheffs respect so much our traditions ... Well, if you need some recipes about peruvian food dont worry, only ask!!!!

Finally I agree with Vi when says that here people are more family oriented and not so much materialistic, but Athena says that here people dont buy what they dont need????? Well not in all cases dear friend, not in all cases... There are reasonable people like your family in law, that buy the stuff they can afford, and thats the best. But we as country re living now an important economic growth so that means Banks love to loan money to people that feels that can pay all that they can with the credit cards... But at the end, they realize that they re full of debts and its late for regret


Its cool to talk to you, girls! I hope that this conversation keeps alive here... Kisses to all of you...

Angela

Hi Everybody!!

Athena, yes Sil knows the exact location of your school, he lived there for two years. You know how to make ceviche??? , to be honest I never try to make it, I prefer to go to a peruvian restaurant.
What about Mirko? does he like soccer?? It's so funny, when I met Sil he didn't know anything about soccer but know he is worst than a peruvian (right now he is watching on tv argentinian soccer) he watches soccer all the freaking time, on the weekends we have soccer for breakfast, lunch and dinner, he doesn't even watch baseball anymore!!!

Angela is great that you know how to cook and if it's peruvian food even better, I agree with you when you say that our food is delicious, I was a tour guide in Peru and always brought my tourists to try our food and they always fell in love with it. Before I moved here my mom gave me the book "Que cocinare Hoy??? by Nicolini, and you have no idea of how much it helped me.
You live in San Miguel right? I'm familiar with that area, specially with el club del BCR, right next to IPAE, my dad works in the BCR and I spent all my childhood there.

It's very funny but the first time I went back to Peru after moving here I felt a little weird, the traffic drove me crazy, the noise in the streets and the insecurity. I love Lima but I have to say that I feel so much safe here. Here you see people with their lap tops in the train or their listening music on their Ipods walking in the streets, you can't do that in Lima, here people they respect you and you don't have to hide anything.

Martin, Congratulations!!! your wifey is finally coming home!!!!!!!!!!! .

Guys I gotta go, tomorrow is friday I need to relax!
Take care
Vi

I meant in the US we buy things we don't really need a lot of the time. I look around my house and I have so much crap I don't need/don't use. Not in Peru but in the US. I was really referring to more buying things we can't afford and how everything is bought on credit.

I make ceviche. We used to just go to this good Peruvian restaurant, but they closed for some reason and the other one doesn't even put cilantro in it! There is a new restaurant we should try called Ceviche Fresco that has Peruvian ceviche but our friends say it's like 11.00 for a very small plate so I'd rather make it. My MIL taught me how to make it ... I'm trying to learn how to make other things, I bought a cookbook with recipes from all over Peru ... I want to learn how to make aji de gallina (one of my favorites).

I personally don't like soccer a whole lot, but Mirko LOVES it. He used to play all the time and went to see a game when we were in Cusco ... he plays sometimes here, he has some Peruvian friends and other South American/Caribbean friends. When we were on our way to see his uncle, a soccer game had just ended and people were pouring out of the stadium, all in the streets and the police were everywhere; it was unlike anything I had ever seen. I think in the US some people like baseball, some football, some basketball, but it always seems like EVERYONE in Peru likes soccer at least a little. Some people were acting a little crazy haha

I remember his sisters telling me in cabs to hide my purse, and I know there have been times I've grabbed my wallet and left my purse with my ipod in it or other stuff in the car (locked) and not really thought about it ... and Mirko kept saying "hold your purse hold your purse" not all the time but in some of the worse neighborhoods.

the only time I was actually kind of scared though was in Barranco because guys kept grabbing me and asking me where I was from; his sisters warned me of the bicheros (this is what they called them?) who like gringas but it was just weird to me; and one time in Miraflores some crazy old man grabbed my boob ... Mirko and his brother were ready to go after him but he was kind of crazy talking to himself so they did not - but guys here in America will do that sometimes too, I've just been mostly lucky in the US. Mirko says people tried to grab me in Peru because I'm so white it was the first thing they saw but I don't believe it (I'm just super pale, even people here in the US make fun of me; pale and blonde) - anyway, in Barranco I told his sister Nelly that I have my wedding ring on if anyone bothers me ... she's like "yes, but you wear it on the american (left) hand - here that means you're separated!"

Eek, I don't mean for this to be so long - I just miss Peru and like talking about it Mirko says I was so happy in Peru it is like I should have been born there

PS I have a question for you guys - one of my sister in laws said that because I married Mirko they think there's a way for me to at least be like a resident of Peru but she said she thinks it is a citizen - do you know if you have to live there like you do here for that or what can I do because I married a Peruvian citizen? She tried explaining it to me but while I can speak Spanish, when it gets into technical stuff, I have a hard time. Someday we do want to live there at least half the year, not right now, but it never hurts to know

SHE IS FINALLY HOME, WOOOOHOOOO!!!!

I will still keep coming here as VJ!

Hey one question, now that she has arrived. I know i have to take her to get her SSN. But what steps do i now take to remove her conditional status on her green card?

You do that 90 days before the expiry date on her green card ... and the guide for it is pretty good

Congratulations!

we are from Peru!!!!
Viva el Peru carajooooooooo