Prisonmate

Did you get a letter stating that your wife's LPR card has been extended for 48 months until they process your case?

She found a job in a "call center" and is living with her clubbing friends. She said she will continue to go to the college on her own but I don't see how she can do it with her new lifestyle and working at the Call Center. Where will she find time to sleep and study and go to school after working the night shift at the call center. Her clubbing activities are important to her so I think she will give up on schooling. It's just funny how other girls her age would love to have someone sponsor them to go to college. Yet, this cousin threw away this opportunity away because her clubbing friends are more important than an education for a better life.

Just an update regarding my wife's cousin. To make a long story short, we had to ask the cousin to leave and we will stop supporting her and paying her college expenses. My wife's family caught the cousin clubbing and not telling the truth of her whereabouts. The cousin was also disrespecting my wife's mom by talking behind her back. Apparently, the cousin's social friends are more important than the family that is supporting her financially. It is sad that others would appreciate financial support to go to school but this cousin rather take a different path.

Thanks to all for your responses. My wife and her family decided to give her one more chance. However, if she gets caught doing it again, she will be kicked out of the house.

Her grades are very good in High School. But I don't trust the grading system there. Teachers give out good grades not on merit but if they like the students. Their education level is not the same as here. She went to a public high school not a private high school. Thank you for your reply.

This is for members that are from the Philippines: We need your opinion on this situation My wife and her family (Mother and sister) in the Philippines are supporting her female cousin ("Maria"). Maria lives with them and has been part of the family for several years now. They treat her very well and supported her schooling all the way to her recent graduation from High School. The plan is to send to her college in the Philippines. Everything was fine until Maria got caught posting photos of herself in her underwear with her face cutoff in a website call Pornview(?). At this point, my wife is upset and feel that Maria no longer deserves her financial help for college. There are other relatives that can use the financial assistance to go to college. Maria is 20 years old. Is my wife wasting her money supporting Maria? My question for other members that understands the Philippine Culture is my wife overreacting? Without college, Maria will have very few career choices in the Philippines. She probably end up doing laundry for others as a job with only a high school degree. What would other members from the Philippines advise in this situation?