My wife and I got married in Granada, Nicaragua in August. I started gathering the needed information to file a DCF. and while I was at I became a legal resident of Nicaragua, I thought it would help with our DCF. Everything was approved and we showed up at the Embassy on Thursday January 25 for our final interview. the lady behind the window dropped the bomb shell on us that we could not have our interview and that our petition had been sent to the USA for approval. she went on to say when she received the handout, she thought of us and how it would effect us, they do have nice people at the Embassy in Managua Nicaragua. we were sad that we were not going to be able to get a visa. I was really counting on that. My sister is back in the States dying from Cancer and only has a short time to live, days perhaps. I wanted to return to say good-bye and have my wife to meet her before she passed on.

I understand what the Government is trying to do, and I agree to some degree. However to punish all of us for the crimes of a few misfits seems unfair. to throw a blanket over everyone and now we must prove that we are not Sex Offenders in order for us to be granted our visa's is not right, or, fair at all. There a several other ways that they could have handled this without disrupting everyone's life.

what I suggest they should have done is this. They know who the people who have been convicted of the crimes they mentioned. They have to register with the Police in every town they move to. All they had to do was put a law into place requiring all persons convicted of a Sex Offence have a stamp placed on their passports, a big red S. O. that way any country they go to the immigrations people from the country they are going to will know what kind of person they are allowing into their country. And when they showed up at the Embassy with their 11 year old wife, the embassy would take one look at the passport and see the big red S. O. and refuse them a visa. That way the rest of us who are innocent of such crimes could continual with our lives.

We do not have a imagination crisis, we have a intelligence crisis.

CaptainButch

Wow! And I thought I had it bad... Sorry to hear that bro. I'm with ya. I agree 100% Hopefully this I'll be over soon.

I don't understand why, at the end of the working week, the Social Security numbers of applicants who filed petitions that week could not just be sent electronically through a secure network to the USCIS headquarters (wherever that is), run them through an FBI/police database to see if they have criminal sex records, and if nothing shows up, then the headquarters send the go-ahead back to respective embassies via the same channel.

Maybe I'm missing something here and it can't be that simple? Cause it sounds like bureaucracy to me. All this mailing of applications back and forth...a lot is bound to get lost.

Sorry to hear about your sister CptnButch, my heart goes out to you and your family.
I agree with you, that this is was not thought out too well. I understand what it is trying to prevent, but still it is hurting innocent ppl as well. I pray we all have a solution soon.Amin

Can you imagine the uproar from the ACLU if they required us to carry that kind of stamp in our passports.....

I was thinking the exact same thing! I even said those words to my wife. I mean I've seen people do this. It's like 'click click' BOOM.... info...

I want to thank those who wished condolences. I had to leave Nicaragua to return to the States by myself to be with my sister before she died. She passed away on Friday. I just returned last night.

Neil Young in his song "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" had a verse, "we have a kind and friendly Machine Gun hand" with the way our Government is handling the Adam Walsh Act and blowing apart a lot of peoples lives is a lot more then the inconvenience they apologized for in their hand out to the Embassy. Irreparable damage is being done to families through out the world. I cannot reschedule a visit for my wife to meet her sister-in-law, she is gone forever.

Is the death of Adam Walsh more important then death of my Sister? Not to me is isn't, Adam's father feels differently, as it should be. However, I wonder how he would feel if he was in another country getting a new Mommy for his son when his death happened, and his visa process was halted because of a new law with immigration that prevented his wife from joining him to return to the states to be with his son for the last few moments of his life?

I like the idea of a Social Security number check for a criminal check, it's fast and easy.

As I mentioned earlier, I am a Nicaraguan Resident. I have been through a criminal check by the Nicaraguan immigration office. By all rights, I should have been excluded because a police check was already done on me.

I am truly sorry for all the other couples who are in the same boat with me, I just wish there was something effective we could do about it. Someone should be accountable for the damage that has been done to our lives because of the mishandling of this. Any idea's on whom to lodge a complaint to?

CaptainButch