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Me - 57
Wife - 32
Baby - 15 months
I'd like to point out that health is one real issue that relates to age difference. We have some friends who have a 27 year difference and his health is failing due to his age. I also know guys who are younger than me with much younger wives and their health sucks.
I am not worried about it as I have excellent health. When we ride our bikes I pull the baby in his trailer and my wife still can't keep up with me. Sheesh!
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Anybody know a good income tax forum? Only 2 days left!
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Hi All,
Does anyone know if DHS officials at JFK ask to see a return ticket for K-1 visa holders? Is it necessary to have a confirmed return ticket at all?
I am actually looking through the prices and find that a One-Way is cheaper in my case !!
Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks in advance.
It's only necessary to buy a round-trip if the K-1 holder is planning on going back.
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McCain is the front runner against either democratic contender currently... most likely having to do with the long fought out democratic nomination process while McCain can settle his base and start to attack democrats.
Once a dem nominee takes the reins I suspect the numbers to slightly favor the Dems again. However until this time McCain is betting on the split Democratic contention all the way thtough the Democratic National Convention...
My predictions have been right-on so far, though the division in the Dem party has been greater and happened faster than I thought. The Dems will get a boost when the fight ends, and the Dem nominee may even hold a lead over McCain for a while, but it won't last and McCain will be the next President.
Very simply, the Dems could have found someone in their party who could beat McCain, but they didn't.
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Maybe our Gov is looking for a job with McCain?
And maybe he knows that with Obama, there's a better chance to have a Democrat move into the White House next January.
I suppose, if NONE is more than SLIM.
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Maybe our Gov is looking for a job with McCain?
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There's nothing wrong with a little racial humor if it's not derogatory.
"Racial humor" is, by definition, derogatory. In any direction. Same as homophobic jokes, jokes against people of X or Y religious persuasion, folks with disabilities, etc.I disagree.
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There's nothing wrong with a little racial humor if it's not derogatory.
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Did they have phone sex on their wedding night?
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Sorry if this sounds mean but I advise him to come meet you instead of you going to meet him. If he's the one he'll make the first move. Call me old fashioned.
It might be difficult for a Pakistani to get a tourist VISA.
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Smart move from the McCain campaign.
they shoulda fired him.
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"after 8 month of trying she has now deserted me..."
Do you mean both you and your fiance/wife tried to marriage work? Or do you mean your wife/fiance tried to find work for 8 months?
It sounds to me by what you said that your wife did not marry you just to abandon you later and that she loves you. But for FINANCIAL REASONS she is forced to find work and MUST GO WHERE THE WORK IS.
It is very common for Chinese people to live away from their homes if that is the only way they can make money. Forced be seperate from their families with only New Years Holiday to see them.
If your income is insufficient to provide for her and allow her to send some money back to relatives in China (this is important responsibility in Chinise culture), then of course she will go where she can earn a dollar.
(I know, I was married once to someone from Tibet/China)
Sorry, but it sounds to me by your own words that she tried to "make things work."
I'm sorry I wasn't very clear. We worked on getting the green card for eight months and finally did. She said that she must raise $25,000.00 USD for a heart operation for her mother. I offered to pay for it but she refused saying that she must earn it. It will take a very long time for her to earn it waiting tables! Why not get a job around home instead of California? I make good money, money was not an issue.
Wow! Sorry to say this but this reeks of an opportunist.
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Smart move from the McCain campaign.
I agree. People are ready for some fresh air.
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You're going to have to meet in person. There have been some cases of VISA fraud in our area involving Pakistanis lately, so you'll want to have good documentation of your meeting and relationship.
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So that means you can just go ahead & show up at the SLEC without any appointment letter? Can you do the medical 2-3 weeks in advance or does it have to be 1 week prior to interview? so many questions..sorry bout that.
They say you need the appointment letter, but sometimes people get in with a print-out from the Embassy website showing your appointment date.
The medical at SLEC needs to be at least 1 week before the interview. I always recommend going early in case additional tests are required, or you are planning to start a family right away (MMR vaccine requires 1 month wait before becoming pregnant
). My wife went 1 month before interview. You don't need an appointment at SLEC.So in short what you are saying is..you can go get your medical done at St.Lukes weeks in advance. Thanks.
Korek ka dyan.
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So that means you can just go ahead & show up at the SLEC without any appointment letter? Can you do the medical 2-3 weeks in advance or does it have to be 1 week prior to interview? so many questions..sorry bout that.
They say you need the appointment letter, but sometimes people get in with a print-out from the Embassy website showing your appointment date.
The medical at SLEC needs to be at least 1 week before the interview. I always recommend going early in case additional tests are required, or you are planning to start a family right away (MMR vaccine requires 1 month wait before becoming pregnant
). My wife went 1 month before interview. You don't need an appointment at SLEC.I guess I will just call the embassy.. I am going to call the 888 # and see if I can make and appointment here shortly since I have my MNL #. I think if I am reading right.. My fiancee doesn't have to have a appointment for the medical. Just show up. I will find out shortly.
SLEC = St. lukes?
Normally, unless you are special
the Embassy schedules the interview appointment and tells you when it is. When you call, they will tell you if yours is scheduled yet. If it's not, you just have to wait. 
St. Lukes (SLEC) doesn't actually have appointments, they just give you a date 1 week before interview but you can always go earlier.
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So that means you can just go ahead & show up at the SLEC without any appointment letter? Can you do the medical 2-3 weeks in advance or does it have to be 1 week prior to interview? so many questions..sorry bout that.
They say you need the appointment letter, but sometimes people get in with a print-out from the Embassy website showing your appointment date.
The medical at SLEC needs to be at least 1 week before the interview. I always recommend going early in case additional tests are required, or you are planning to start a family right away (MMR vaccine requires 1 month wait before becoming pregnant
). My wife went 1 month before interview. You don't need an appointment at SLEC. -
Do you attend CFO before or after the interview? Also, can the benificiary just show up to attend the seminar without any appointment notice?
You can do it before or after the interview and no appointment is needed. Which one is better really depends on your schedule, and how far you are from Manila. If you do it before you receive your VISA, you will have to return there to get the stamp in your passport.
Sometimes they give you a little personal interview and might ask questions about your fiance, and they can request documents such as divorce papers of your fiance. If you don't have what they want, they will ask you to return with it later. They asked my fiancee (now ny wife of course) for photos of us.
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thanks. if either of us meet some in the future how long before either of us can petition another person?
US Citizen has a 10 year IMBRA hold that will need a waiver filed in order to file I-129F for another person.
Foreign citizen does not have such a limitation.
10 years? I thought it was 2 years between filings and a lifetime limit of 2 petitions.
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As Obama said, he could no more disown Wright than disown his own white grandmother. What he's saying there is that he feels a same attachment or obligation.
I don't think that's what he said at all. Re-read what the man said. And this time try to understand it too.
I read that line and again it still states the same thing, nothing changed.
"He could no more disown Wright than disown his own white grandmother"
Can you give me another meaning to this that I and others are not getting
I think he simply meant that his grandmother as well as the Reverend Wright as well as others are people that helped form the very person that he [Obama] is today. Neither of them is perfect and without mistake (as no person is perfect and without mistake), neither of them he agrees with fully all of the time but both had nonetheless a valuable influence on shaping the person he is today. He can't go back and change that. Nor does he want to. I think that is what he is saying. Actually, he said just that in unmistakable terms:
"These people are a part of me."
That has nothing to do with your assertion that he feels the same attachment or obligation towards both. Nothing at all.
I agree with your interpretation, and that IS what I meant by attachment or obligation. For example, my father was an alcoholic but he still helped make me who I am. He taught me honesty and integrity, and this I will pass on to my son, if God allows me. But that was my father, on which I had no choice.
The fact that Wright is a part of Obama because Wright helped make him who he is today doesn't change the fact that he chose Wright for this role in his life. And like I said, I believe Wright is an extremist and I don't think that if his political views represent those of mainstream Black Liberation Theology.
From what I've heard - that sort of firey rhetoric is pretty common to Black Liberation Theology.
The question is if Wright alone should be tagged as an extremist or an entire branch of theology - including large church congregations. I can see the convenience in the former, but the latter is a problem however you look at it - because it opens up a wider debate than I think many people are willing to have. And it would take the focus off Obama - which is also not what some people want.
Hmm, I don't think that the kind of language that Wright used is commonplace at all.
Although I cannot cite any specific sources to the contrary of what you say, this very topic has been bantered about for the past couple of days by the media, and as far as I can tell those journalists, and program guests weighing in on this topic, that do attend black churches say that this is not commonplace at all.
I'm of the impression the concensus is that Wright's taken the dialog to the next level.
That's what I've been trying to say.
And the guests on these programs also stress the history behind such kinds of comments, to be more complete.People do need to understand the history. The anger, the mistrust, and the resentment are very real.
ETA: ... and justified.
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The Filipina ladies need to change the way they refer to pu$y cats on VJ.
Bad boy!
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As Obama said, he could no more disown Wright than disown his own white grandmother. What he's saying there is that he feels a same attachment or obligation.
I don't think that's what he said at all. Re-read what the man said. And this time try to understand it too.
I read that line and again it still states the same thing, nothing changed.
"He could no more disown Wright than disown his own white grandmother"
Can you give me another meaning to this that I and others are not getting
I think he simply meant that his grandmother as well as the Reverend Wright as well as others are people that helped form the very person that he [Obama] is today. Neither of them is perfect and without mistake (as no person is perfect and without mistake), neither of them he agrees with fully all of the time but both had nonetheless a valuable influence on shaping the person he is today. He can't go back and change that. Nor does he want to. I think that is what he is saying. Actually, he said just that in unmistakable terms:
"These people are a part of me."
That has nothing to do with your assertion that he feels the same attachment or obligation towards both. Nothing at all.
I agree with your interpretation, and that IS what I meant by attachment or obligation. For example, my father was an alcoholic but he still helped make me who I am. He taught me honesty and integrity, and this I will pass on to my son, if God allows me. But that was my father, on which I had no choice.
The fact that Wright is a part of Obama because Wright helped make him who he is today doesn't change the fact that he chose Wright for this role in his life. And like I said, I believe Wright is an extremist and I don't think that if his political views represent those of mainstream Black Liberation Theology.
From what I've heard - that sort of firey rhetoric is pretty common to Black Liberation Theology.
The question is if Wright alone should be tagged as an extremist or an entire branch of theology - including large church congregations. I can see the convenience in the former, but the latter is a problem however you look at it - because it opens up a wider debate than I think many people are willing to have. And it would take the focus off Obama - which is also not what some people want.
Firey rhetoric is fine with me. However, I think there's a difference between black religious leaders saying, for example, that blacks need to fight for their own rights and self-determination because whites don't want them to have it, or whites are too prejudiced, or society is controlled by whites, or whites just don't care, and the kind of distorted political reality that Wright promoted.
All depends on the language they use to express it doesn't it?
Words matter. Like Obama said, "Just words?"
change of address after AOS
in Adjustment of Status from Work, Student, & Tourist Visas
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What if you're late, like really late, at reporting an address change? We moved last January and I forgot about it.