Artegal

Yeah my NOA arrived today, but was dated the same day the check fee was cashed with my bank.

I bet it is a lot easier to replace a driver's license then it is to replace a green card. In my state I was able to renew my driver's license over the internet with a debit/visa card and it was mailed to me within a week or so. Compared where it takes weeks to months to years to get visas and green cards. We had to wait 5 hours just to apply for the social security card which arrived eventually several weeks later. And 14 weeks to get my son's passport--amazing how efficient the Federal Government is run these days--maybe it is time for change.

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ted's grill closed down, the one here, but um I didn't care for the burgers less fat then beef--beef is the way to go for burgers, Now have you tried the Bison Meatloaf or the Bison "roast bison" Excellent! but anyway they closed down around here.

Yeah I couldn't track it, I guess they will let the I-751 sit around for a little while before issuing a new WAC number.

Also if you want to know your application receipt number it is hand-written on the front of the cashed check: The number will begin with WAC or EAC or some other three letter abbreviation corresponding to the service center.

I see today that USCIS cashed the check for our I-751 on 18 July. Only took them two weeks to cash the check.

What kind of stupid thread this is, with Supermodel and Virgin in the title but yet no actual Pictures of the aforementioned supermodel and perhaps non-virgin. Perhaps I should rectify the situation!

The US has one of the highest road death rates in the developed world. As well as some of the shittiest roads I have seen in the developed world. One person every 12 minutes dies on a US road.

But is that because of excessive speed? Or the fact that in the USA we have the highest ratio of cars to people and the longest commutes, the freedom to travel from coast to coast, and perhaps the most extensive highway system in the world. More people behind the wheel, more often, driving longer distances, are what accounts for the higher number of deaths on our highways--not just speeding.

Poor Kitty Cats

Why is it any worse to eat Cats than to eat Pigs, Chickens, Cows, Fish, etc though? The sort of treatment these cats were getting sounds similar to what baby cows get in veal crates for example.

Its way worse to eat Cats, because the slaughter house has to kill them up to 9 times before they can be processed into fish sticks, hot dogs, bologna, or potted meat.

Its unfortunate that Chickens cannot Meow.

Has anyone ever proved that increasing the fines on a particular crime will cause an effect of reducing the number of the particular crime being committed? I doubt you will find any scientific or statistical proof of such a cause and effect.

Everyone drives 10 to 25 miles per hour over the speed limit, unless you are lost, elderly, or perhaps asian. Furthermore a lot of places have speed traps and put artificially low speed limits. Cars and Roads are built much safer now-a-days and therefore speed is less a factor in accidents. Every accident I have seen or been a party to occurred at or below the speed limit. Most accidents are those where someone is not paying attention--not speeding. For example rear-ending by not stopping because they are following too closely or distracted.

If the government was really concerned about people driving at unsafe speeds then they should mandate that car manufactures install restrictive mechanism in the car's engine to prevent a vehicle from going above 55 miles per hour. And let's not forget that 55 miles per hour was set during a so called energy crisis by Jimmy Carter and not for any reasons of safety.

Just to elaborate on what kinds of photos I submitted: Group shots of us two, the whole family, and extended family. The photos were taken in different times of the year christmas, holloween, thanksgiving, birthday, babyshower, baby's first day, etc.

The instructions don't mention anything about pictures. What gives?

But the instructions do state:

Other documents you consider relevant to establish that your marriage was not entered into in order to evade the U.S. immigration laws.

So this would be photos amoung other things in my opinion.

Many banks will request a SSN because as part of their policy they will run a credit check--this probably more to do with future marketing of investments, loans, and credit cards than any law --although they will claim it is part of the Patriot Act requirements.

yeah all the utilities are in my name--because I was living there before she was--so...the mortgage statement is one combined with two checking accounts. It does not state that the mortgage is in my name only--it just list us both at the top and then puts the mortgage amount balance etc below.

But the birth certificate and insurance and photos should be pretty solid.

Yeah the Doctor recommended taking Probiotics for like a month or two in order to strengthen our immune systems. What do you think? Is it hype, placebo, or does it really work?

Looks good. Our package has about the same content.

How's the baby?

Good Luck!

Thanks for asking! Yeah the baby is growing and growing--How is your little one?

Update: Inquiry clears officer, but jaywalker won't step back

Inquiry clears the police in this case, but the Professor is pursuing civil legal action.

This made me cry. Thank you to all the soldiers past present and future. YOU are the reason we enjoy our freedoms.

Other nations may find it distasteful, that you'd glorify the agents of American Aggression.

I don't aggree with this statement--however, I do find it troubling that every single holiday now is just a repeat of Veteran's Day and Memorial Day--and echoes the support of the iraq war--yet with different reasons--No WMDs, Saddam is Dead--lets get the hell out of Iraq--that would be the best way to honor our country's birthday--make peace not war--bring them home safe and sound. Lets get back to Baseball and Apple Pie instead of another rallying cry from a lame duck leader pleading for support of a war that has no support. And still we have not caught the culprits of 9/11. But anyway our constitution has been so watered down by this administration that the signers of the declaration of independence are rolling over in their graves.

Yeah so we sent the I-751 out this week.

I had the following as evidence:

18 photos of us together

Baby's birth certificate

Medical Insurance card

Dental Insurance card

Joint Bank checking/mortgage account statement

Life Insurance policy showing immigrant wife as 100% beneficiary

Auto Insurance policy showing us both as drivers for the vehicles.

2005 and 2006 joint tax returns with W2 for both of us showing same place of residence.

You think that should be sufficient?

Oops wrong forum. sorry

Comparing flights on Travelocity--it would appear that American Airlines is beating Spirit's rate, by about 50 dollars. And then LAN is just a 60 dollars more than Spirit. So I don't see where there is a big savings on Spirit.

All I have to say is that 31% of the time I believe in GOD! The other 69 I am Shouting "Oh My God!" And then my faith is renewed yet again.

I meant by legalizing/decriminalizing drugs it would bring it out in the open so it can be regulated. Cheap, low skilled labor is a commodity and like drugs, most of the cheap labor is coming from outside this country illegally.

The conventional definition of a free market capitalist is one who opposes restrictions or regulations on the market. Milton Friedman believed the market would regulate itself through competition and consumer choice is the main driving force. That's why corporations will buy out the competition - to circumvent consumer choice. Do you have a different definition?

As for NAFTA and the influx of immigration - here's just one POV from Economist's View (Hardly a Liberal Slant):

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economis..._and_illeg.html

Mexico has shed nearly 30% of its farm jobs since the trade pact went into effect, according to government statistics. That translates into 2.8 million farmers and millions more of their dependents fleeing their fields. Some have taken subsistence jobs in Mexico's cities, but many have relocated to the U.S. ....

NAFTA experts say negotiators from Mexico and the U.S. knew that rural families ... would be hard hit by the trade deal. The bet was that many of them would find work in Mexico's burgeoning maquiladora export factories. But ... Mexico has lost more than four times as many farm jobs over the last 12 years as it gained in export manufacturing positions, in part because of relentless competition from China...

You make the mistake of assuming there is a link between Trade Pacts and Illegal immigration, when if anything the loss of agricultural jobs is because of technology and economic development. When the American South was largely agrarian there was a need for cheap labor—from slaves, share croppers, child labor, to migrant immigrants (legal or undocumented), but eventually sectors in the American South developed new economies such as textile mills, light industrial, to skilled and service industries, the need for as much cheap labor in the agricultural market sector dropped. There was not a single trade treaty that suddenly caused the end of farming jobs.

As far as your reference to the drug policy and how we should make the immigration policy similar you still are in error. For you state that the Drug policy should be decriminalized and put out in the open and then regulated. But in fact there are ample laws, regulations, and policies in effect that are regulating the drug trade, and in your correlation to the immigration policy—we all know the scope of rules, regulations and policies that exist with the visa process. Immigration is out in the open--its not illlegal to immigrate to the USA--its illegal to immigrate illegally. Just as its not illegal for me to take my blood pressure medicine--but it is illegal for me to take the medicine without a perscription.

But even in an “open” market there is and will be those that will try and circumvent any regulation or measures taken. This is why there are black and gray markets in areas where trade in a commodity is regulated. From market manipulation in creating artificial shortages in energy, to selectively not harvesting or slaughtering livestock to manipulate the price, to hiring undocumented workers to reduce payroll tax, wage, and benefit cost, to the smuggling by tourist of prescription drugs from Mexico and Canada, to counterfeit/pirated software, books, and music, why even moon shiners continue to produce alternatives to the out in the open alcohol market.

But I suppose if you did decriminalize the illicit drug trade then a lot of the South American and Asian illegal immigrants might return to their countries of birth--as certainly there would be huge amount of work in the agricultural sector to produce coca leaf, cannabis, and opium.