Latin Journey

We just received a letter from Nebraska Service Center in response to our I-751 Petition to Remove the Conditions of Residence. We sent the Petition to Nebraska Service Center on time and of course it took 3 months to get a response letter.

The letter stated they would extend my wife's Conditional Visa an additional year because there is an 8-month delay in processing cases to remove the conditions.

Is the IMBRA stuff delaying everyone or just those in process of I-129F petitions?

This is crazy!

Just watched the online video version of the news story on the ABC 7 website. The lady in the interview is spewing pure propaganda and misleading information. Its unbelievable and makes me angry.

Obviously an attempt to spread untruths in support of IMBRA law or to make people like us who have foreign spouses look like "wife beaters."

Just my opinion, but news stories like this create a terrible public stereotype towards men like me with a foreign spouse and do influence public opionion in the wrong way.

People believe everything they see on TV. Its hard to know if the wife is taking advantage of the domestic violence protections or if that guy Dickerson is really an evil guy.

I read in the ABC 7 discussion forum about this story that the lady in the interview "chases" stories like this around the country. She did the same thing on the Fox news O'reilly factor show. Obviously an agenda.

Stink'n, smelly troll...

Here is a link to a 2004 news press release that shows the tactics used to get IMBRA passed:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/7/prweb138739.htm

Promoters of the INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE BROKER REGULATION ACT strategically link international matchmaking organizations with human trafficking rings in effort to gain bipartisan support.

Strategic linking of marriage brokers with human trafficking rings aids in gaining bipartisan support for law intent on eliminating international matchmaking companies and websites.

(PRWEB) July 4, 2004 -- To gain bipartisan support for the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, we endorse the strategies of (1) using "womens' protection" as the main theme of the law; and (2) claiming that American-based marriage brokers are part of global human trafficking rings, however unfounded.

We also support provisions of the Act that will require brokers to conduct large quantities of consent verifications and background checks before American men can write love letters or make any contact with foreign women. These provisions will make it very difficult for American-based marriage brokers to organize those disgusting overseas introduction "parties" where women outnumber men 100 to 1. These provisions will also drive up costs to the point of putting most brokers out of business. In addition, this law effectively places "warning labels" on American men thus decreasing demand for them among foreign women over time.

Although this law is long overdue (and hopefully not too late), we welcome the Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2003 as a means to regulating the often arrogant and brazen international marriage broker industry. This industry has gone from the fringe to the mainstream. The American male population is now overly exposed to the message that it is acceptable to desire and actually marry women "unspoiled" by American materialism and most troubling, "uninfected" by American feminism. This message may impede the progress of feminism here at home and give American men the idea that it is acceptable to not respect feminist principles that took so long to instill upon them.

The marriage broker websites promulgate the "message" that American men are highly desirable outside the U.S. and can have access to women not intent on upholding over 30 years of hard won womens' rights. These sites also offensively elaborate on the reasons for rejecting American women as part of a campaign to promote the desirablity of foreign women. We find this to be most appalling.

Certainly, the existence of this industry is indicative of the sad state of romantic relationships between men and women in North America; however, it by no means should be allowed to continue unregulated. Sites such as www.americanwomensuck.com and www.nomarriage.com are problematic enough.

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I might have cracked the code so to speak, behind this enigmatic and empirial decree that has been titled, "IMBRA".

When broken down, the acronym is actually seen to be a phrase, with the government as the speaker of if, and we the people are the listeners:

" I m (am) b - ra (ting)" or "I am berating..." where the -ting is silent.

the phase is incomplete, which is a clue that the government is itself the speaker.

Berating - this means to scold or condemn vehemently and at length (ref. Webster's Dictionary)

I conclude that this is the government or the individual who scripted the law, attempting to scold us, the fiance(e)s and spouses of foriegn nationals, for having recklessly fallen in love with other than another US citizen. Apparently, we should all be ashamed of ourselves and we will all be made to suffer for it by being cast into this pit of dispare until such time as it pleases them to release us or put us out of our misery.

It's ironic and almost funny that our immigrating spouses' and fiance(e)s' first official contact with the so called "Greatest Democracy on Earth" is actually with the biggest oligarchy in the western hemisphere, the USCIS. I hear echos of, "absolute power corrupts absolutely..." Does anyone else see the irony here?

So I would further like to congratulate and thank the authors and approvers of this superb law for straightening us all out. They once again have saved us simple minded commonfolk from ourselves. I'm suprised we can find our ways home after work every day without the government's help. Oh, the horror! Why, we might have gone ahead and got visas and started living together with our wives and husbands by now if it weren't for this gem of legislative joy. I hope those senetors and judges and whoever (they know who they are), I hope they're sleeping nice and tight tonight with their wives and husbands (and in many cases, I'll bet mistresses as well). Sure is great to be with the one you love, yeah? Thanks, guys. Keep up the good work. Give yourselves a raise. -Oh, wait! You already did! Good job senetors. I think I'll run for office next time around, just so I can edge one of you sloths out of the House and actually get some work done.

I consider myself a patriot and I love this country dearly. I am in the armed services and I would lay my life down for this land and it's people if called upon in need. But I find the treatment that we are given by this nation's so-called immigration service goes beyond insulting, it goes against the very fabric upon which this nation was founded. It makes me irate that the swollen beaurocratic carcasses of those in power can torment and destroy the lives of so many innocent people with such little effort. It is amazing that this can happen in America, the land of the free. In spite of this, I still say God bless America. And God bless all her weary souls, and God bless all those who knowing all the problems with it, still want to make her their home.

End of rant.

Other sercret meanings recently uncovered:

USCIS - Unable to Start 'Cause IMBRA Sucks

or - Uncommonly Slow Citizenship Information Service

or - Ultimately, Suck-it-up, Cry-to-your-mother, Ingest-much-alcohol, and Sleep-it-off

and finally - UnSatisfactory Conditions Imposed on your Spouse

aloha!

You should all do your research and discover the facts yourself about 911 before calling anyone a conspiracy nut job.

This video (on google video) is only one example that takes basic common sense and logic to question the truth about 911

After you see this video, you won't think the Wisconsin professor is that crazy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=15...;q=loose+change

There are hundreds of credible people in high places and former presidential advisors who feel the same as the Wisconsin professor.

I guess the North American Union and the NAFTA Super highway 4 football fields wide from Mexico to Canada right through the heartland of the United States is a conspiracy theory as well. Bypass all US labor unions and have U.S. customs in Kansas City.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/10/10921/0135