Legal Immigration Documentary

[metinspain 0]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this post belongs in this forum, so if it needs moving then so be it, or advise where to.

I am writing a proposal for documentary concerning the Legal Immigration process for finance/married couples. I especially interested in focusing on the many difficulties that this process brings - financial,emotional and bureaucracy.

My and wife I both went through the system of immigration in 2006.I now hold a greencard - actually I should update my own timeline

I remember very well the emotional strain of being a newly wed while my wife was in states, as I endlessly waited on the USCIS in London. Most of the time I felt this site was my only friend and legal advisor. It struck me, and still does, that there are a many stories out there needing to be told. Much has been highlighted as regards to illegal immigration in this country (USA), I feel it necessary to readdress the balance and portray the other side of the coin.

If you have story you want to share,thoughts or simply feelings of what you would like to see in this project then please respond here. Alternatively please email me in confidence at:

LoveWithALegalAlien@gmail.com

I am based in Chicago - so especially interested in couples from this area.I hoping to go into production some time early 2009.

kindest regards

vern

[justashooter 430]

a very cool idea. there is a lot of misinformation related to legal information in the popular press.

as a person who met his wife while working overseas, went through a K1 process with complications related to the poorly implemented IMBRA enhancement, i would love to help you out. our story is representative of a side of K1 that is rarely discussed. we are not an internet couple, just two people who met in a street market in China one day in the early summer of 2005. we have lots of funny stories to tell, and some good photos documenting our relationship.

mt wife is well adjusted in America, and I am still stuck in china often, but we love each other, anyway, and are very close. we have a farm house in pennsylvania between harrisburg and baltimore, and family here in henan province. as for being photogenic, well, at least i can say that my wife is a hotty. our age and weight differences 44/27 - 200/100 may not play so well, but we are a presentable couple with an interesting story.

e-mail me when you get this going if you want to discuss.

[metinspain 0]

Hi sorry,

I couldn't see you name to address you properly.

How did the IMBRA affect your case? timewise etc I remember the law was signed just as we were doing well on our case. We had to fill another form even though we were already married.

I think there can be some perceptions of age,race,build when it comes to international relationships.It would be nice that a documentary can educated those to believe that not everyone has a 'mail-order' bride. With the age of social networking the issue of international relationships will only increase.

vern

[justashooter 430]

we filed K1 with vermont in late march 2006, just after the IMBRA regs went into effect. unfortunately, they were not well published or advertised, so we were not aware of the need to comply. there was no form available for submission until june, so we couldn't have, even if we knew.

our application was approved in vermont, at NVC, and sent to guangzhou. we got packet 3 from guangzhou, and returned packet 4, thereafter hearing nothing from guangzhou. we attempted to contact them in the months thereafter, but did not find out the case had been returned to NVC and thereafter vermont until late september. i had difficulty in communicating with vermont, but had since become aware of IMBRA, so understood why the case had been returned. we involved a representative from senator specter's office.

the senator's rep contacted vermont and got them on the right track. our case was re-opened, an RFE recieved and returned with the IMBRA form, and was thereafter sent to NVC and then to guangzhou with a new 2007 number. my wife was interviewed in guangzhou in july, and pink slipped immediately.

i was scheduled into work in china from first of august thru end of september, so we married in US in october, honeymooned in florida, and applied AOS/AP/EAD. of course, we returned to china under an AP to marry with our chinese family in the spring during one of my working cycles. li was in the states by herself for part of the winter while i was in china and india, because she had no AP until februray.

most of our time in K1 process we were together, as i had work in china, but time apart since marriage has not been easy. we love each other deeply, talk all the time about anything and everything, and are now apart nearly 7 weeks burning up the company phone. such is life. because of our difficult situation, li has grown very quickly. she drives, has a job, a bunch of friends, etc. still, she cries on a regular basis. not easy for me to hear from 12,000 miles away.

an added complication in our case? my wife's green card lists her as taiwanese. she is PRC, so we had to send her card back for replacement, which i am hearing will take 6 months or more. this is the reason we are not together, now.

we have discussed the difference in age in detail. it is something we accept. we both live young, so what the hell. the last thing i was looking for in china when i began working here in 2004 was a bride. having been divorced 10 years and a custodial father for much of that time, i needed a break from life, and didn't want a relationship, at all.

when i met my wife i was hanging out in a street market waiting for a co-worker to pick up lunch so we could take it back to work on a sunny saturday afternoon. she walked up to me and asked me if i was lost. foreigners are rather uncommon in luoyang, but tourists do get lost from time to time. she was an english speaking tour guide, so was just looking out for whichever of her colleagues had "lost" me.

i told her that i was not lost, by any means, rather, i lived there. we talked for 20 minutes, and before parting traded phone numbers. any english fluent chinese in luoyang is a major find, and my interest was purely platonic. i invited her to dinner to continue the conversation. the conversations continued for a month or so until one night, looking over a sputtering candle, i realised that she was not only an english speaker, but also an attractive woman.

what the hell was a guy supposed to do next, i wondered. the conversation shifted in the following weeks from chinese history and philosophy to more personal topics, and we wondered at the possibility that two people might be suitable, one for another. one night we snuck into the wan shen park after a midnight supper, and running from the roar of the lions and the howling of the peacocks, collapsed on a bench beside the peonies laughing. i thought it a proper moment to ask her to marry me. thereafter, all of the tour guides in luoyang came to think of me as her tour group of one.

the rest is history, and it would take as many years to tell as it did to live. the hurdles we faced involved pressure from her family and the local public security bureau, overcoming of anti western propoganda, chinese beaurocracy, and worse yet, american beaurocracy. in the end, it was a task worthy of the effort required, yielding a result unlike any i had ever imagined the day i first set foot in china.

my name is scott. my wife's name is li.

[bhajishah 4]

At age 36 (both) me widowed and he never married.. Upon the advice of his cousins and brothers..I went to Korea and "saved" him from his kept Korean house keeper..packed him up sent him back to his homeland.. married him , had to pull alot of strings to get him here with me.. now he is a 42 yo old married babaji.. house keeper ran off to new conquest job..