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Sorry, the topic title above should have read, "RFE not received - USCIS closes my case"

To add to my post above, how do I send the RFE back using DHL, UPS or FedEx if all I have for CSC is a P.O. BOX address?

Just a suggestion: If I understand you correctly, your parents live in the U.S., maybe FedEx the RFE to them, then have them send via USPS to the CSC??? I wish you luck...

Try this: http://www.russianembassy.org/

Click on holidays on the left side...Looks like it's "National Unity Day"

***Sorry for a redundant post...I wasn't quick enough....

So my fiance tells me that Monday is a holiday in Russia. November 7 used to be a holiday to commemorate the Great October Revolution.

But communism is out of fashion, more or less, so they can't celebrate that anymore. But my Tanya cannot tell me what this holiday is.

Other Russian friends tell me it has to do with some great victory Russia had over the Poles a few hundred years ago. What is this victory?

Does this holiday memorialize the first partition of Poland, when, as memory serves, Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary partitioned Poland and led to its extinction as an independent state for a couple hundred years? (And, if so, what do the Poles have to say about this holiday?)

I love it!!!!

I agree that name calling and labels distract from any issue. I have to say that all the political ####### flying these days makes me sick...I just get angry and frustrated with all the lunacy flying from both sides...Don't the polliticians know that "I am" the most important issue the campaign....jeeezzzz!!!!

Thank you. I'll just say this - Bush has said many things that I could draw conclusions and label him for it, but I don't see how throwing labels around is helping us deal with the real issues. Labels, IMO, are just meaningless distractions.

Steven and Jinky, I'd like to apologize for responding out of feelings instead of being reasonable and provide a counter to a good argument. I believe someone already posted some of Kerry's remarks so, I won't spend the time looking to add more or repeat those posted. As far as being patriotic by protesting "any war" regardless of if the war is justified or not. Just plain protesting a war...I think is a patriotic person. The person obviously cares enough about the country to say something. However, it's all in how a person protests the war...Regardless of how someone feels about the war, I feel that the military should be left alone by both sides, other than oversight, because things do happen in a war. Most military service men and women will say, "Those are the rights that I'm fighting for!!" For those people who are against any war to protest the war. Again, to me, it's all in how someone protests any war.

First of all, I never said anything about being unpatriotic or any thing of the sort. So, I don't know where the hell you are coming from. Secondly, Kerry has repeatedly disrespected the military, even when he was serving. He even wrote up his own damn awards, so don't give me any ####### about his service. If you've ever served in this countries military, you'll know what I'm talking about when I say that anyone who writes there own awards, of course, is gonna walk on water. Thirdly, saying that our military is stupid, IS BASHING THE MILITARY....What part of that do you not understand????? His words!!!!!! Intentions be damned, he said it and he admits that he won't apologize for that......And if I'm full of ideological B.S. then so be it, I've given my freedom for that Jackass to spew his hate and for you to call me an Ideological idiot because I served. I was merely stating my opinion and limited knowledge of his recent statements about our troops today and Kerry's elitest attitude toward the world.

Can you post me a link or a quote of Kerry where you believe he is clearly bashing the military?

I didn't call you any name. I'm saying that the argument which is made by many Bush supporters, that if you don't support the President, you are unpatriotic, anti-American, and you're bashing the troops - that is ideological BS. If you don't aspire to that notion, then it doesn't apply to you.

Let me ask you this..

Can a person justifiably protest a war? What would you call them? It seems that labels get used for everything under the sun these days.

First of all, I never said anything about being unpatriotic or any thing of the sort. So, I don't know where the hell you are coming from. Secondly, Kerry has repeatedly disrespected the military, even when he was serving. He even wrote up his own damn awards, so don't give me any ####### about his service. If you've ever served in this countries military, you'll know what I'm talking about when I say that anyone who writes there own awards, of course, is gonna walk on water. Thirdly, saying that our military is stupid, IS BASHING THE MILITARY....What part of that do you not understand????? His words!!!!!! Intentions be damned, he said it and he admits that he won't apologize for that......And if I'm full of ideological B.S. then so be it, I've given my freedom for that Jackass to spew his hate and for you to call me an Ideological idiot because I served. I was merely stating my opinion and limited knowledge of his recent statements about our troops today and Kerry's elitest attitude toward the world.

I also believe Kerry stated earlier this year or late last year that the US troops were terrorizing people...then to add this statement, which by the way insults me because I have served in the military, is one in a whole host of military bashing Kerry has done in 40 years. During Vietnam, our troops were monsters and murderers. Just my two cents.

I do feel that had he just come out and said, without saying anything else, that it was a joke, aimed at the president and that he didn't mean the way it sounded. It just came out wrong. I think this would have been a real non-issue. But, my personal feeling is that this is John Kerry and how he really feels about the military. He has had serious issues with the military since he served and it's shown several times throughout his career...

Because Kerry acknowledge the atrocities during the Vietnam War, you call that bashing the military? That's pure ideological BS. Our country was founded on the principal of standing up against tyranny and injustice. The Vietnam War was an unjust war and it's not just Kerry who's stated that - that's an accepted historical truth. We didn't belong there. That doesn't have anything to do with troop bashing. The military is under the command of the sitting President and it's peculiar that all the criticism that Clinton got for the military engagements he commanded, no one said those who criticized or questioned the legitimacy of those military engagements were bashing the troops.

All you who like to label people anti-American, unpatriotic, troop-bashing...just be f#cking consistent. If those are the labels that apply to anyone who criticizes any American military engagement, then you better starting dishing them out evenly...or you lose all credibility.

I also believe Kerry stated earlier this year or late last year that the US troops were terrorizing people...then to add this statement, which by the way insults me because I have served in the military, is one in a whole host of military bashing Kerry has done in 40 years. During Vietnam, our troops were monsters and murderers. Just my two cents.

I do feel that had he just come out and said, without saying anything else, that it was a joke, aimed at the president and that he didn't mean the way it sounded. It just came out wrong. I think this would have been a real non-issue. But, my personal feeling is that this is John Kerry and how he really feels about the military. He has had serious issues with the military since he served and it's shown several times throughout his career...

Try to follow me on this, Gary. You claim that Kerry bashes the troops. You do know that the statement he made was aimed at the President and not at the troops? You did read his explaination? But you keep insisting that he went on the podium during election time to dis the troops. A distortions of reality to say the least...much like attacking his military record. If you don't like his politics, fine. But give it a rest about the personal attacks. Calling him a scumbag based on a knee jerk reaction like that is not intellectually honest. Go back to that thread that you made and read what I posted. I think anyone who's read my posts there will see my point. I'm not here to defend Kerry or any other politician, personally, but I'm going to call BS when I see it.

Your fading on me Steven. Try to follow me here. It's not just this last thing he said. It's his 40 year record of trashing the military. This is only the latetest example. Face it man, Kerry hates the military. Nothing more can be said.

Wow! Until I read your timeline I thought things had fallen through and my heart stopped (I just don't like seeing relationships fail). Glad to see that you are still getting married....

Hi people,

Can anyone tell me or give me some ideas of what I need to write on my WITHDRAW letter am going to send to the Service Center working on my Patition?

Thankz

-alex

Thank you so much Friend!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not telling you to do anything. I am asking you to consider the possibility that a wall etc is nothing more than a sticking plaster over an absess. looks very nice on the outside, but in practice it just disguises the real issues.

You asked me what I would do in a given scenario, and I have answered. The fact that you don't like the answer is frankly not my problem.

Number one, I have never advocated a wall. In fact I have publicly said a wall is not the answer. I have said so in a thread in which you have posted, therefore you had a perfect opportunity to read it. You either didn't, or you're confusing me with someone else.

Number two, it's not that I don't like your answers, rather I don't believe them. Yeah, yeah, 'who am I to believe or disbelieve them?' but the end result is the same. To say that you'd be more understanding and not upset if there were a stranger in your home doesn't quite fit with the common sense reaction that this situation would normally evoke, imo. I propose you wouldn't be wonderfully accomodating to a stranger in your house. I propse you wouldn't say 'hey how can I help you and until that time, help yourself to whatever you need?' No, sir/maam, I call bullsh!t.

Especially not as a parent of a child.

I think it's a lil too 'pie in the sky' idealism if you ask me. Easy to say, and to tell others what to do to prove your compassion and how much more evolved you are as a 'civilized person' So naturally, since you're all 'America should do this and do that' I'm asking what you've done I'm callin you out. Not what you've toldothers to do while you're busy patting yourself on the back for not being so 'consumerist/shallow/narrow minded/ nimbistic/etc' as the rest of American society. Not what you're dictating while behind a computer screen, or what you think the solution is in 'a perfect world', what you've actually done.

You don't wanna answer? Hah, that's ok...I completely understand. I wasn't really expecting one anyway

I gave up a day or two ago with trying to argue with PH. It's definetly not that because she's a good debator (which she isn't), she just avoids answering and then starts spewing statistics (available at heavily liberal websites) and then switches topics when backed in a corner...So, in my opinion, she has no argument but to propose idealistic solutions that no reasonable person could agree with. She also has managed to spew hate about America and then try to re-write what she wrote and say she doesn't mean that....Drugs!!! What they are doing to America these days......

BTW LisaD, I think you're the best!!!!!!!!! Love the pounding you are administering...(so this is what a fresh can of woopass looks like???)

Then where did the rest of the statements come from? For me, one sentence out of a few paragraphs doesn't change my mind about what was written. Seriously, I'm asking to try and understand where you are coming from....

And there we have it, the rational that prompts most of you 'get the illegals outa here' argument. Essentially, you have your cake and you want to eat it, regardless of the harm your culture/consumarism does to the rest of the world.

The US is full of you wonderful upright citizens. My mind boggles at your one dimensional personalities and you're "I'm alright Jack" mentality. Oh, and even better than that, you like to dabble in external politics tell other nationalities how to behave and try to bully them into a behaviour or religious belief that conforms with the American view of the world, but only if in doing so the US gets some benefit...like say oil.

It's easy to be contented in your fat cat society and pour scorn on the lesser mortals who don't have the 'high morality' that you do.

Luckily, in real life not all Americans behave like this, or have such shallow beliefs.

Be thankful you, who are so passionate about the scurge of the illegals, have nothing more pressing to worry about in your day to day life.

Oh, I know my words don't affect you, still, maybe one day, more people will try to view the whole world as their home and not some abitrary piece of land they happen to have been born in.

And there we have it, the rational that prompts most of you 'get the illegals outa here' argument. Essentially, you have your cake and you want to eat it, regardless of the harm your culture/consumarism does to the rest of the world.

The US is full of you wonderful upright citizens. My mind boggles at your one dimensional personalities and you're "I'm alright Jack" mentality. Oh, and even better than that, you like to dabble in external politics tell other nationalities how to behave and try to bully them into a behaviour or religious belief that conforms with the American view of the world, but only if in doing so the US gets some benefit...like say oil.

It's easy to be contented in your fat cat society and pour scorn on the lesser mortals who don't have the 'high morality' that you do.

Luckily, in real life not all Americans behave like this, or have such shallow beliefs.

Be thankful you, who are so passionate about the scurge of the illegals, have nothing more pressing to worry about in your day to day life.

Oh, I know my words don't affect you, still, maybe one day, more people will try to view the whole world as their home and not some abitrary piece of land they happen to have been born in.

Your words PH!

With that said, I will say that I do agree with you PH that this problem is multi-dimensional and has to be considered from many angles. And there is not one fix-all solution to this issue. What I said yesterday; how can you help a country like Mexico, when the Government of Mexico admittedly is supporting it's citizens illegal entry into the U.S? Furthermore, Mexico (the Government) isn't respecting our borders and rights to exist as neighbors. Please don't misunderstand me, I have served this country (and continue as a civilian)and believe to the bottom of my heart that immigrants are the life blood of this country. All Americans, to one extent or another, are immigrants...I also, even though many have died, appreciate that people the world over want to come here (the good ones, the criminals are not welcome) and risk their lives to do so. And in some cases the lives of their families left behind...I certainly don't have all the answers, nor do I think anyone else has all the answers but, there are going to have to be some tough decisions made and implemented in order to correct/solve this problem.

As soon as you hear "if you don't like A, B or C about America, leave", you know

they have no real argument.

It's obvious that you have no real argument because everytime someone, myself included, calls you on your B.S., you resort to name calling and insults....Are the people you meet wearing white coats and carrying "candy" for all the patients..???

Said like a true NIMBI!

Congratulations, it's people like you that give the US a bad name in the rest of the world.

Luckily for me, the Americans I encounter in day to day life are really rather pleasant people.

Please continue to believe that agression and wall building solves your problems.

The US isn't promoting it's population to enter illegaly into another country...Secondly, a statement about knowing the world coming from a Brit is after all, funny!!!! Thanks for the problems in the middle east since Britain divided up that part of the world in the 1900's, thanks for all the colonialism, thanks for allowing the US to fight to defend you....Thanks!!! If Americans are so rotten, then why did you move here? Why haven't you left? Why shouldn't the US close it's borders, kick the UN out, and not be involved in the world? Let's see how far that goes when the money dries up and the world doesn't have someone to come to the rescue!!!! Is that history enough for you????

You can't see the irony in suggesting that a foreign government stays out of US domestic issues? Really, you people should read more, learn more about history, get out and see more of the world.

This is another particularly vacous argument. Because I am from the UK means automatically that I represent the views that led to all the 'bad' things that have come out of the UK. Or the, if you don't like it hear go home argument. Come on, grow up!

So the US government isn't promoting illegal entry into other countries, but it is certainly persuing some highly questionable foreign policies.

Oh, and while we are at it, let's see if you can give me one good reason whey "habeus corpus" has been suspended in the USA? Very democratic.

Seriously, if you don't like it exercise the rights America has provided you so far and leave. And what does Habeus Corpus have to do with illegal immigration anyway? Except the illegal terrorists that may be here, and as defined by the UN, they are not a military, nor are they entitled to the Geneva Conventions afforded true members of a nations military. All you have posted here is a dream, one in which if people can just talk about things all the world will be rosy. Just as the UK has the right to protect it's borders, so does America. And yes you are accusing all Americans of being pigs and such when you suggest that we are the problem in the world...

"And there we have it, the rational that prompts most of you 'get the illegals outa here' argument. Essentially, you have your cake and you want to eat it, regardless of the harm your culture/consumarism does to the rest of the world.

The US is full of you wonderful upright citizens. My mind boggles at your one dimensional personalities and you're "I'm alright Jack" mentality. Oh, and even better than that, you like to dabble in external politics tell other nationalities how to behave and try to bully them into a behaviour or religious belief that conforms with the American view of the world, but only if in doing so the US gets some benefit...like say oil.

It's easy to be contented in your fat cat society and pour scorn on the lesser mortals who don't have the 'high morality' that you do.

Luckily, in real life not all Americans behave like this, or have such shallow beliefs.

Be thankful you, who are so passionate about the scurge of the illegals, have nothing more pressing to worry about in your day to day life.

Oh, I know my words don't affect you, still, maybe one day, more people will try to view the whole world as their home and not some abitrary piece of land they happen to have been born in."

Also, I was interested in the illegal immigration issue long before I started this process or even met my wife, so don't presume that I or anyone else wasn't either. Furthermore, you can stop with the snips towards peoples opinions on immigration in the USA. This is OUR problem (until you are naturalized). I just love how the rest of the world thinks they know America, and how rudely they are awakened when America gets pissed off and decides to fight back...

The US isn't promoting it's population to enter illegaly into another country...Secondly, a statement about knowing the world coming from a Brit is after all, funny!!!! Thanks for the problems in the middle east since Britain divided up that part of the world in the 1900's, thanks for all the colonialism, thanks for allowing the US to fight to defend you....Thanks!!! If Americans are so rotten, then why did you move here? Why haven't you left? Why shouldn't the US close it's borders, kick the UN out, and not be involved in the world? Let's see how far that goes when the money dries up and the world doesn't have someone to come to the rescue!!!! Is that history enough for you????

You can't see the irony in suggesting that a foreign government stays out of US domestic issues? Really, you people should read more, learn more about history, get out and see more of the world.

I can only assume this post is ironic.

Huh???

My two cents....So far I haven't seen anyone mention that the Mexican Government prints and hands out pamplets on illegals rights when crossing into America. They also provide suggestions on obtaining food and water, etc...I'm not picking on the Hispanic community, just saying ####### to a government supporting breaking the laws of it's neighbors.......

Yes it does matter. Because if I were to say that, just to be naughty, I'm going to illegally cross over the border to the USA today, because frankly, I don't have any respect for their laws, and I'm going to see how much trouble I can get into while I'm there...it's very different than saying, you know, I don't really want to go, I'm going to miss my wife and kids like crazy, but we've got to eat, I don't have any other choice, and I know that I may never get through that walk through the desert, but what kind of a father would I be to let my kids starve, and I better be careful while I'm there so I can spend enough time and make enough money to last us... I would say there's two drastically different motives, mindsets, and interests in coming to this country and that it will influence what they do while they're here.

• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.

• The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.

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Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city's sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to "terrorize people." Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.

New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans-four of them illegal-abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.

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more reading for you

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No it was completely serious. They write songs about this down there. The plight of the "mojado" who does his familial duty.

so it's a family duty to invade the usa?

Almost one in six inmates in Arizona, for example, is a Mexican citizen.

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Interesting "Russian Brides" program on cable channel, "Discovery Times". They tend to repeat these programs, so you might want to check it out.

Good luck to all!

AKDiver

Thanks, sounds interesting...of course we are kinda living the documentary anyway!!!!!

I always thought the seventh dwarf was SLEEZY....!!!!!

i am not a dwarf

Then I must be....

19. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing? BASHFUL

I always thought the seventh dwarf was SLEEZY....!!!!!

You are an idiot.

Damn!!!!

I am not "all you" or "you all"... I posted what I thought he is legally supposed to do....and kept my opinion to myself because I do not know all the facts...

I'm just curious as to why all you people are assuming that he is a big bad man? That he wants to put this poor little innocent woman and her daughter out on the street. It's been well documented that foreign women do use USC's simply to get into the country. This could be the case here couldn't it? I don't know if it is or isn't. But Geez! Maybe you all personally know the OP. But I don't.

Not that it really matters here but, When I went to pick up my wife, I think I was more upset about my wife leaving her friends and family than she was...I kept telling her, "I think I have something in my eyes and they keep watering..." she would just laugh at me....

So you think she has not given up her whole life to come to be with you???

She has spent her life living in Kyrgyzstan surounded by her family and friends, Knowing how her society works and understanding all the social aspects of her way of life.... It does not matter how well edcuated she is she has left her home, left her family... uprooted her child and all for your love.... if you dont like what you now see then be a man and be honest tell her you have changed your mind dont try to make it out to be her doing by insisting she now agree to something that was not agreed on before she arrived in the USA...

For anyone going through immigration process to think that the person moving from their home country to be with them has not given up there whole life then my friend your head is up your ###....

Kezzie