This isn't meant to exclude anyone so please let's not turn this into anything bad. I hope other people will add in thoughts for the people they are praying for/wishing good things for regularly.

My wishes:

Carrie and Simon get reunited very, very soon (like yesterday). They are both in my thoughts every day.
Rahma's husband's finds a job.
Cairo gets its but in gear and issues visas to Jean and Aymerlu.
and JP's interview gets bumped up (I think of this often too).

and my best wishes to everyone else as well.

Jazakallahu khairan.

Everything in this world is a test. May we all pass what comes with ease.

awwwwwwwwwww...you are so sweet. That comment just made my day Rebecca. I would like to second everywish on this board and add that I hope your upcoming interview goes well.

Amen to everything you just said... I wish for all those waiting, the same feelings of relief and joy that I have today really really soon insha'Allah!!!

Wishing the best for all!

I second all the wishes and want to add........ best wishes to those whose so's have gotten here and are learning to adjust .. this is also a very trying time for our relationships ....

may we all be blessed on our journeys

amal

me too, me too!!!! geez, it's such a long drawn out process for so many... can it all just come to a happy ending soon??? please???

OMID!!! Many congratulations and best of luck for a smooth entry and wonderful reunion today!
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!
Noura

I third that Omid...

Have a great reunion...

Yasi

Awwwwww, made me cry. You are so sweet! Well, we were told Khallid would have his visa by today and guess what? Surprise.....no visa. I'm tired of all these tests.....I'm about to flunk.

awwww.... Aymerlu - ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Well sh*t here come the tears. I need to go hide in the bathroom. I will post later but know I hold best wishes for all.

need a tissue Jean? (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Jean))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Noura

Amy .. Call the embassy and ask them if they sent him the visa ..I really wish you the best and hope you will have your visa now..
Jean ..I am really sorry for the situation you are at ..I always think of you and I can see how very sad you are lately I really always Pray for you and I really wish I can do more for you ,since you deserve the best and you are such a wonderful woman. I know it's hard the waiting since I have been there ,, If you ever felt blue just think of LB and how she waited for 2 years but at the end she get united with her husband ..I mean it's there "THE VISA" for you ..
Jean I feel stupid now because I feel my words is nothing that can make your suffering any less ..Forgive me
I pray you get united as soon as possible and yesterday before today
AMEN

I didn't think there was a way for me to call the embassy from the U.S. On their web page it says you can only call from a landline phone from Egypt and then they charge you.

Salwa, and everyone else, thank you for your kind wishes and thoughts. My wish is that every heart can know peace, every mind know contentment, and your lives be filled with the happiness you deserve.

My wish too is that you know that each and every one of you is appreciated very deeply. It's because of you that I got through the last few days. I never want to feel that hopeless again.

Enshaa Allah (God willing) the suffering we are all enduring in one form or another comes to a speedy conclusion. For those looking forward to their reunions, I hope this new chapter in your life is full of blessings.

My biggest wish......... that your lives be graced by the love you have always dreamed of, and that it exceeds your dreams in every way.




As a footnote: Mohammed came and read the threads yesterday. Tonight he was a changed man. He was MY man again... the Mohammed I have been missing. I don't think he realized how I was suffering. He made a very wise and wonderful point I want to share....

Remember who you were as a couple in the beginning. Remember the love and joy you held in your hands before this nightmare started. THAT is what matters. This process was destroying both of us and our relationship. Tonight we decided we'll no longer discuss it. We just do what is necessary and then go back to focusing on what we love about being together.

He reminded me of the first time we met. The airlines lost my luggage and I was delayed meeting him in the airport lobby. Very delayed. The airport had cleared out and it was very late at night. I had never been anywhere outside the US before, I was alone, and I was extremely intimidated by Egypt. I was in terror he would think I hadn't come and would leave. I would have no way to reach him and I would be alone. The woman at the counter was taking her sweet time and I began to cry. I explained and she ran to find Mohammed. I was right behind her. There he stood. The only person left in the darkened lobby. When he saw me... I can never forget it... his smile was more radiant then the sun. Everything in the world just ceased to exist except for him. The woman was explaining to him to wait for us but he never looked at her... his eyes never left me. He said he never heard a word she said. But I need to back up. He had been harassing the security guys to see if anyone was left from the flight in from Paris. They said no they're all gone now. He said he was sure I had stood him up and he was going to take his bag and go to Sharm El Sheikh to find work and to try to forget. He had shouldered his bag and was about to leave but decided to count to 20... and that's when he saw me. We came that close to never meeting... and never seeing each other again.

There's a lesson here for us. I told him tonight, now we need to count to 20 Mohammed. I could hear his smile in his words. "Yeah, honey... now we count to 20 together." So... whenever we can get the embassy to give him his appointment for his prints, he will give them and we will count to 20 together. Nothing else matters...

Jean,

That's a beautiful story ! It's an excellent thing to remember in life.... always count to 20 !

Glad you're feeling better... stay strong. Your victory is coming insha'allah, and every day you are one day closer to it.

Thoughts and prayers with everyone still separated, and with everyone facing struggles. God with you always.



-MK

Amy call 0027972200 from 8 Am till 4 P.M egypt time this is the consular office..sometimes they only recieves phone call from 2 to 4 P.M..Good luck tell me how did it go

wow Jean very wonderful story ..You can never give up such LOVE..
Be happy at least oneday u will be with the man who loves you alot..
SMILE JEAN

Jean that was such a beautiful story... made me cry dangit! so happy things are brighter tonite for you.
Noura

You guys can remind me the next time I act retarded...

Amy the embassy phone number is
002027972200
I did a mistake with the Cairo code..Iam sorry

My wishes:



Jamie gets the NOA approval, and gets the case moving again...and we will be seeing Yacine here soon!

Tanya gets some good news from her congresswomen and an approval inchallah soon

Hachemi arrives safely inchallah and makes Meriem happy...

I get back from Cali in one piece with a calm and sound mind

I get myself moved within the next week and half

And I get my visa...

And by Sept 5 I leave USA and get married...inchallah

Wow, Jean your airport story is so similar to mine I almost think you stole it! But that memory is forever impressed in my heart and it is what keeps me going everyday. NOTHING else matters.

My wishes are:

To look into the eyes of my love first thing in the morning.

To hold his hand and tell him I love him, rather that shouting it into a computer headset.

To come here one day and only read happy news, reports and sentiments.

That all of us will coexist harmoniously in this little cyber niche even if we have to pretend.

So I also have an airport story but not as touching as Jean's but funny. My filight was not delayed but my baggage got lost, so I was the last person to get out of the terminal. I wasn't really worried about my fiance leaving because my entire family was out there and his family too. The funny thing was that I was 2 hours late coming out, and he kept asking the security guards if anyone was left and they said no. So his 7 year old nephew kept teasing him saying " she changed her mind" and " she is not coming"

Wow what a wonderful story.................

Amy, Jean, Jasmine:

My thoughts and prayers are going out for each of you. Funny how I thought when Amr and I were going through this that I at the time was the longest K-1 on AR/AP. Now Amy and Jasmine has passed me and Jean is quickly approaching. I don't get it. I really feel that this embassy does everything in it's power to keep people apart for as long as they can. Very unfair and so not deserved.

Jasmine, I pray for your son daily. Please keep me posted on the outcome of finding receiptiants for his bone marrow transplant. I pray you will find someone soon.

Amy, I know you have gone into your shell again. Hoping I will be able to see you smile again soon. Please try to relax, do what your doctors tell you so your body can heal itself. Easier said than done, I know. I just worry about you honey.

Jean, hoping everyone moves quickly with Mohammeds prints. You will get everything straightened out and the processes will begin to move again. Remember, they had Amr as being dead!

I was in everyones shoes just a few months ago. It does come to an end. As far as everyone that was telling me "the time apart will seem like it went so fast" was BS (sorry) The process was truly the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life and let me tell you, I've been through some doozies! I NEVER want to be separated from Amr again. The process has made me a paranoid nutcase! And really, even though we are together now, I will sometimes get that overwhelming feeling like I had when we were separated. It's strange.


I WANT EVERYONE TO BE REUNITED SOON!!!!!!! {CAN YOU HEAR ME GOD?}

Crazy!

It's good to see you here. I've been wondering about you. How are you, Amr and the wee ones doing? How is Amr adjusting?

You know, I wondered if some people suffering a type of post-traumatic shock thing after something like going through this process. Especially those who have been going through it for such a long time. I know personally I suffer anxiety attacks now and times where my mind will just utterly not focus no matter how hard I try.

I kind of stepped out of "ourselves" last night while Mohammed and I were talking and bickering (yes, yet again) and realized... we are just 2 people who are in extremis and blinded by our own suffering. I know it sounds a bit melodramatic maybe, but those who stand or stood in these shoes know it well. Mohammed feels he is being victimized and criminalized at this point. It's causing unkind opinions to form in him towards this government and I CAN CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND WHY. I feel the same way. It's like its coming at you from all sides, but yet there is no floor under your feet to allow you a foothold to fight for what you need to do. All you can do is spin. And it hurts. The worst part is you can get no answers other then the usual twaddle and semi-cryptic bullsh*t replies.

People have said Cairo has become yet again the slowest embassy to process. Seems to be kind of a trade off. They are hard with their checks, casa on the other hand seems to favor tossing petitions back rather then bother themselves with working very hard. I don't know which is worse. My opinions may not be fair, but then these days I'm no longer a rational human being.

Aside from wanting the pain and suffering of all of those who are separated and fighting for their dreams to find peace, happiness and a blessed reuinion, I have one remaining wish...

I WISH THOSE IN CHARGE OF THIS PROCESS ON THE GOVERNMENT SIDE GAIN A LITTLE EMPATHY FOR THOSE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND UNDERSTAND WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND THESE ARE OUR LIVES AND OUR FUTURES YOUR ARE TWISTING UP.

I don't give a bloody hell at this point about their backlogs and short-handedness. FIX IT! YOU HAVE THE POWER! YOU TAKE THE MONEY! We are not all criminals. We are not all out to "rent-a-spouse". We are not all trying to scam you. 99.9% of us ARE human beings who are living in a kind of hell you bureaucrats COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND. I'm watching it tear down the health of those around me going through this. I'm watching it tear down their hope and their CONFIDENCE IN THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT. When I went into this process I thought "I have nothing to worry about. I have upmost confidence my government is on MY side." Those are bitter words to repeat now. I'm suffering health issues now. My fiance is lost in a red mist of anguish and rage and CONFUSION and he can no longer sleep at night. My dear friends are facing the same. HOW MANY F**KING MONTHS DO YOU HAVE TO DRAG US THROUGH YOUR SEA OF RED TAPE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN IN ORDER TO BE SATISFIED??? UNTIL WE GIVE UP????????????? DOES THAT MAKE YOUR DAMN JOB ANY EASIER??????? IF WE ALL JUST F**KING QUIT AND SAY NEVERMIND??? Well, I have news. I'm NOT giving up. Neither of us have EVER done anything wrong against our countries respectively or each other. And it's not going to start now. So get off your ###, stop using security checks and fingerprints as your lame excuse and get this baby birthed already. I want my god damned life back. I WANT TO FEEL NORMAL AGAIN I WANT MY FUTURE WITH THE HUSBAND I CHOSE.



... and I will make no apologies for this.

GO JEAN! Yes, I think you can call it a post traumatic shock thing. I guess I think when I can't see him that he's gone and wonder if I'm dreaming! Then I feel the little dudes wrestling around inside me and know that he won't be gone too long! Maybe it's the pregnancy too making me more emotional. I really thought I was going to lose my mind when Amr and I were separated for so long, that's why I went to be with him in Egypt. You 3 gals going through Cairo now I commend you for your strength. You might not feel strong right now, but you are. I too have lost all faith in my country and I we do plan to return in a few years. Probaby to Sharm or Dahab. As another VJ member told me last week {desert fox} when he said why wait a few years to return???...planes leave every day. That was a snide comment being made too. Go imagine!

I don't post here much basically due to the fact a lot of the threads serious stress me out. I don't know why I let them, it just does. Pregnancy is a rough one. I feel like I've been on bed rest forever now and I look like a dead bloated cow or something! We still don't know the sex of the other baby, it will not cooperate during any of the ultrasounds. All we know right now is that we are having a boy and another baby! We're hoping for a little girl, but will be happy with whatever God chooses to bless us with. We have decided to have either the first or middle name arabic and the other american. Amr is nervous and excited. The fact that he's not able to work is really getting to him, but we are praying that he received his temp work permit soon. I'm thanking God my boss is letting me do insurance claims on my computer now so I'm still bringing in an income.

Well, time for a nap!

that is the sweetest story... *snifflez* *sigh* what i wouldn't give for that first meeting feeling again

amal

Crazy,

Take good care of those little ones (I know you do). Nap all you can now!

As for the comments of others in this board... well, its best I just "shaddap".

What a refreshing thread in the midst of alot of sarcasm and mudslinging and politics......

I hope all who are waiting to be reunited can have that moment come soon and to all the ME I have
definitely missed alot of great moments and news so congrats to allllll!!!!!!

Thanks Rebecca!