Rosalind F

Hey all, got an update due to citizenship application! I submitted N-400 in July 2022 in Cincinnati, got an interview notice for N-400 in mid-January, and then a few days later got an interview notice for I-751 (same place and time, so combo interview).

You aren't sure that a ten year old being raped and requiring an abortion is the only option? The alternative being that the raped child is forced to give birth with the potential danger to her life?
 
The world we live in these days I guess. 

So the original reporting was dragged because there was a single source (now corroborated) but now there appears to be a single source (not yet corroborated) for the story that the doctor who disclosed that a non-specified child had an abortion is now being disciplined for a HIPAA violation? Where is the outcry that there has been no corroboration of that? 
 
And that child needs to find a safe place to live. Clearly the mother is not providing one. 
 
Also, the true horror here is twice over -- first child rape, and second, that a child would need to leave her own community to access necessary healthcare. Ohio's AG is saying the child would be able to obtain an abortion, but the law doesn't provide for an exception for rape. And Ohio lawmakers have said that age doesn't automatically trigger the "health of the mother" exception. The risk has to be both substantial AND irreversible. Is the risk to the health of a 10 year old forced to bring a pregnancy to term "irreversible" even if could be substantial? How long would it take to determine that for THIS pregnant child? Every day that goes by with courts and lawmakers trying to figure that out is another day she is being traumatized.
 
The fact that the accused rapist is here illegally is probably the least awful part of all of this. We need to focus on the needs of this victim. It doesn't matter if she was raped by someone who entered illegally or by a billionaire born in the USA. It's a distraction, and a crime is a crime, and this child has been traumatized. It doesn't make it "more worse." The media is trying to distract you from the actual story: child rape resulting in pregnancy happens not infrequently in Ohio (I saw a report today that 52 abortions were performed on children 15 and under in the state in the year 2020. That's one a week. The numbers of reported  child sexual assault in the state are astoundingly high. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/07/13/ohio-abortion-sexual-violence-statistics-show-disturbing-likelihood-of-children-being-impregnated/
 
That's the story. Not whether doctors trying to help a child in a medical emergency because of a wrong-headed law that is too vague to let them know if they are at risk of prosecution did or did not comply with HIPAA. The people who want to defend these outrageous laws are trying to distract you from the brutal truth of what the laws do in real life. I have a 9 year old stepdaughter, who will be visiting next week. She is a child. An intelligent, precocious child who speaks like a little adult sometimes, but she is a child. I think what if this had happened to her and she couldn't get an abortion and I want to punch and kick and tear things up. All of the promise in this little being would be forever affected, over and above the trauma of sexual assault. 9 months of her body changing way before she was ready, way before she made a choice to be a parent. We at least have the benefit of her living in the UK so we can get her judgment-free care if she needed it. We also have a loving, caring family to support her, and we also have the benefits of our socioeconomic status. Children like our daughter are always going to have safe and legal options to preserve her dignity and self-determination.
 
Think of a 10 year old you know. Think of how desperate you would be to help that child as a caregiver. 

Wonder if they would have made the same decision if the coach was Muslim or of any other religion than Christianity practicing their faith and/or praying on the field with students. 
 
The erosion of separation of church and state is extremely concerning to me. 

OMG, woohooo!!!  I just now got an email from USCIS saying that hubby's card is being produced!!!!!  I couldn't believe it so I had to go to the site and check it for myself.  YAY!!!!!!!

I've been tracking ~10000 LIN cases around my case number (filed April 2021) and, unsurprisingly, there's been very little movement on a daily basis. I've collected data on June 10th, 13th and 14th and I've only seen 5 status updates among those 10k cases.
 
Still playing around with the range of case numbers I'm tracking in order to collect statistically meaningful data, and I can't guarantee that I'll be doing this regularly or consistently, but hopefully this will give some insights or patterns on how LIN is processing I-751s.

So, I just want to say this as gingerly as I can, as I think it is a topic that people really need to be mindful of others when discussing it..  It's not that we didn't *need* mental healthcare as much 50 years ago. If anything, people have always needed mental healthcare, but were unable to seek it, as people did not understand it. I come from a family that had a variety of 'issues', issues that would have made it a lot less dysfunctional if people had sought help. 50 years ago, we were locking people up and basically torturing them. Depression happened. Suicide happened. All sorts of things. We just didn't speak of it, as people were ashamed. It's never shameful to get help. We know some issues may very well be genetic, some issues are within the brain, and some are the result of trauma and abuse. I have been through some very difficult things in my life, never sought help, and pushed through it, because I know that there are some people in even worse experiences than me. It's probably pride, it's probably stubbornness.. and maybe I will talk to someone about it someday. I don't think that it's a bad thing to do so. 
 
In 1935, my great grandfather committed suicide. He lived in a tiny town. A farmer and father of nine children. I can only imagine the stigma my great grandmother went through, and how she had to cope. This is something I discovered while investigating my family tree in around say... 2010. This was kept a great secret of shame for that long. The story passed from generations was that he had passed in an accident or passed due to TB. The truth was, something snapped in him during WWI, and the man that came home was not the same man. He had no one to help him through that, and he suffered mentally. I have a family member that is bipolar. For many years they had no help, and it is always difficult when they are not taking their medication or are having mental breaks. You don't really know what it's like, unless you've been there or seen people go through it.
 
I just know this kid was not a good person, fundamentally because he also came from a family life that created that personality. And whether by part mental illness, part being taught to hate others, this conditioned him into the evil we are finding out about now. Not every kid will turn out this way. He needed help and did not get it. I know that may come off sounding sympathetic, it's not.. and I'm glad he's dead. But I wish we could get to a point where we could stop these people before they harm others.

I know many of you will never agree on my position about guns and arming teachers. That's fine.
 
This was a very bad kid that shouldn't have access to guns. So how do we stop that? I don't think we should ever be of the position of ''oh well.. that's just too bad.." By many accounts this kid probably had a very unpleasant life, and that life likely contributed to the horrible person he became. The persons involved raising him (drug addicted mother) and a completely dysfunctional family have a hand in that. None of them pulled the trigger, but he fits a pattern and profile of many individuals that should never ever be holding a gun.
 
But I still have questions I think that need to be answered in this case. I don't feel comfortable with the info that's coming out about this.
 
1) This town spent an enormous amount of it's budget on the police, in particular for the fortification of schools and protocols for active shooters. All of it failed here. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-security-plan-rcna30568
 
2) The shooter engaged the police and he still managed to get into the building. Once inside he remained in there, while the cops... did nothing.
 
3) While inside the school he managed to get inside a classroom which apparently was not following active shooter protocol by barricading the door. We know the door barricading/locking apparently works because by the time a group of CBP officers that had some kind of extra training, which was led by an off duty that was pretty annoyed at why the regular cops were still outside shrugging - that door was locked and the officers could not enter! They had to find a teacher.... to get them a key. They didn't actually breach the door with urgency... they just unlocked it. Which I got to say is still really odd.
 
4) Officers called out to kids inside to get them to respond which led to additional children being found and shot.
 
5) There is even some suggesting (testimony from some police) the officers waiting outside were only interested in trying to sneak their own children out a different way, while the shooter was ''contained'' inside the classroom - i.e. he had locked himself in with the kids he had just murdered.
 
6) It was so disturbing to parents that showed up very quickly to the scene that no cops were even trying to enter the building. Some angry parents did show up armed. The cops used threats and tasers to control the scene outside, while the killer had 40 minutes to an entire hour make kids suffer. https://reason.com/2022/05/26/witnesses-video-suggest-stunning-inaction-from-uvalde-cops-during-school-shooting/ Imagine if yourself, a gun owning parent were in this scenario - and was standing outside a school for an entire hour hearing gunshots while he murdered kids, and the police were not doing anything. https://hotair.com/headlines/2022/05/26/the-police-timeline-of-the-uvalde-shooting-has-a-lot-of-holes-n472131 I have seen many angry comments from cops, retired officers, and parents this morning about this absolute failure.
 
7) We have had many school shootings happen, we even had a sniper take pot shots at kids in a D.C. school recently, but never have I seen a group of cops so seemingly unprepared, untrained, and apathetic for a scenario they were supposed to be familiar with. The Parkland shooting also had issues, but this shooting seems like complete failure of protections on many levels.
 
 

Well we've probably talked about this in some of the million other threads that crop up every time something of this nature happens - but I still firmly believe that firearms do not belong in the hands of teachers, I am fine with firearms being in the hands of trained officers on the premise and I believe that we need many other security measures in place that do not seem to have happened here. Officers have also stated that they do not agree with teachers having firearms on the premises, because in an active scenario, things get very dangerously complicated fast. My husband works with teachers every day, and he would tell you that there are some individuals teaching that you would not want even remotely belong having a weapon around your kids... and students that you would not want anywhere remotely near a firearm. If I had children in a school, I would personally not feel comfortable trusting a teacher with a gun around my kids nor would I want those kids to be around it. I'm sorry, I just wouldn't. 
 
The problems in this case are glaring: he got access to the building despite being in a shootout with cops and then got access to a schoolroom filled with kids. how did he breach into the room, when other shooters typically could not? 
 
I take the usage of guns very seriously, because the purpose of it is ultimately to maim or kill someone or something. That's one of the reasons why I do not believe young men like this belong obtaining such firearms as easily as he did (where did he have access to a couple thousand dollars, and obtain large amount of ammo?). If we could address how bad people get guns to begin with, perhaps people would feel more comfortable around them. When I lived in the city, gun violence was everywhere. Kids were killed every day. Now that I live in a rural area, guns are everywhere - and frequently I see individuals not treat those guns with respect and participate in unsafe behavior. There are individuals that own guns that are often drunk and violent. I still do not feel safe.
 
I believe in many cases, parents need to be held responsible for the actions of their kids. I have seen a lot of kids that are ticking timebombs, their parents say that they are shocked and had no clue. Well, I think some people need to get a clue. There are a lot of mentally disturbed and abusive individuals. I believe that laws that enable someone to own a gun with no experience or training is pure stupidity and I believe the bar should be higher for those that are young or have prior issues. It's always the same old story - suspect was known to police, suspect had mental problems, suspect had prior convictions and just slipped through... 
 
The answer never seems to actually be an answer.

I cannot believe that women in US have less control over their bodies than women in Soviet Union. 
This is medieval.
 
I'm also going to leave this here even though somebody else posted it earlier in other thread. I think it's important for everybody who supports abortion ban to recognize that in this situation woman is given less rights than a corpse. 

Just so you know, I am against vaccine mandates.
 
And yes, there is a similarity in a way that both vaccine mandate and abortion ban tell you what to do with your body. 
 
However, NOT getting a vaccine is passive; nothing is required from a person who chooses to not get a vaccine. This person doesn't have to go to a clinic to not get a vaccine. And the person doesn't automatically loses the right to not get a vaccine in a period of 6-12-16 weeks. No additional measures (pills/inserts/etc) to prevent the need to not get a vaccine. So, there is no way you will not be able physically to not get a vaccine, it is always on the table. Argument can be made that the consequence of not getting a vaccine might be job loss. But it will not be possible to take an option to lose a job and still get an abortion. 
 
I'm actually not disagreeing with you but these are different

Covid Vaccines have been  denied to people since 2020 and continue to be denied outside of the USA.   Even while thousands of doses were literally flushed down the toilet. 
 
I drove hundreds of miles to get my first dose. 
 
The 4th dose isn’t generally available to every one.  
 
The issue is exactly the same. 

Just so you know, I am against vaccine mandates.
 
And yes, there is a similarity in a way that both vaccine mandate and abortion ban tell you what to do with your body. 
 
However, NOT getting a vaccine is passive; nothing is required from a person who chooses to not get a vaccine. This person doesn't have to go to a clinic to not get a vaccine. And the person doesn't automatically loses the right to not get a vaccine in a period of 6-12-16 weeks. No additional measures (pills/inserts/etc) to prevent the need to not get a vaccine. So, there is no way you will not be able physically to not get a vaccine, it is always on the table. Argument can be made that the consequence of not getting a vaccine might be job loss. But it will not be possible to take an option to lose a job and still get an abortion. 
 
I'm actually not disagreeing with you but these are different

I cannot believe that women in US have less control over their bodies than women in Soviet Union. 
This is medieval.
 
I'm also going to leave this here even though somebody else posted it earlier in other thread. I think it's important for everybody who supports abortion ban to recognize that in this situation woman is given less rights than a corpse. 

I cannot believe that women in US have less control over their bodies than women in Soviet Union. 
This is medieval.
 
I'm also going to leave this here even though somebody else posted it earlier in other thread. I think it's important for everybody who supports abortion ban to recognize that in this situation woman is given less rights than a corpse. 

I cannot believe that women in US have less control over their bodies than women in Soviet Union. 
This is medieval.
 
I'm also going to leave this here even though somebody else posted it earlier in other thread. I think it's important for everybody who supports abortion ban to recognize that in this situation woman is given less rights than a corpse. 

Never said that I forgot any such thing, nor has anything I said implied it. Nor have I stated any such thing about abortion either or implied it. If you don't really care about this issue, then why does it sound like you do? SCOTUS also previously found that protesting outside the homes of abortion clinic providers is perfectly fine as well. As a result, individuals have done so for years.
 
Ways to stop someone? What has already been proposed in many states already. Suing anyone who goes over the state lines to do and suing anyone that 'helps' someone cross a state line to do so. If a child has been raped and pregnant by her father, and her mother takes her out of state for an abortion, will the mother be arrested by the state or sued by the rapist? Rep. Coleman from Missouri thought that the suing method was perfectly acceptable. Because, as she believes if an egg has personhood and is a person of that state unable to 'speak for themselves', then the state has the right to stop a woman from obtaining an abortion, arresting, or suing her for 'harm' to that said egg or fetus. I'm not even about to get into the historical context and fallacies of such thinking. Other ways? If masks and COVID measures in many states could prove - a state can compel an individual to do any number of things, which did include travel. Papers please, indeed. I know you cannot see it at the moment, but there is plenty of Constitutional scholars and historical precedent that see the writing on the wall. I imagine it would become a constant battle.
Yes it does happen, somewhere.

I've posted before about my experiences so I won't go into detail. I have had a termination and also a miscarriage. The miscarriage was deeply traumatic for my ex and me -- we wanted this child very badly. I rarely think about my termination, except during times when abortion comes back into public discussion. It was the right choice for me at a very difficult point in my life, and I would make it again. I've been able to live the kind of life I wanted to live and eventually I came to the conclusion that while I love being a stepmother, bearing a child isn't for me. I would have loved my longed-for baby if it had come to term, I have no doubt. But going through the pain of losing a child and then the physical aftermath... I could never go through with a pregnancy. I thought on this a lot, and talked about it with my husband a lot before I remarried. This was our choice that we came to together.
 
But as a middle-class woman who lives in California, I will always have this choice until the end of my reproductive years unless some federal ban is put in place. Same for most of my female friends here. From my understanding, the restrictions in the UK are not very onerous, and far less than those in US states, and my friends over there will also face few issues if they need to (and some of them have). We're privileged by our class and location. Why should we have greater rights to dictate how our lives are to play out than other women do?
 
Abortion is healthcare, and family planning is up to families to decide, not the government. It will not stop here either with abortion. There is good reason to believe gay marriage is up on the block next, followed by contraception.
 
As @ROK2USA said in this thread, women who elect to have late terminations -- an unbelievably small percentage -- are not doing so because they don't like being pregnant and want it all to go away. You want that baby, but then something has gone very, very wrong. Your life is in danger, or the baby has died or its existence is "incompatible with life." It's heartbreaking for the families involved. 

States are neither sovereign nor nations, that is a matter of fact. There is no nationhood that I'm aware of that any US state has that is equal to that of the constituent nations of the UK, last time I checked people primarily fly US flags, not flags of their state. They are equally not sovereign, they are not able to act as independent actors on the international stage, nor do they have any means to secede unilaterally, two key components of sovereignty. You are not advocating for federalism, but instead independent unitary states, quite the opposite of federalism really. Federalism isn't the non-existence of a federal government, nor is it of concept of a weak federal government (that's confederalism, and that didn't last very long here).
 
It is established in many other Federal countries (Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia), that the federal level enshrines a baseline upon which all the component states, lander, canton, provinces and whatevers are bound to. However, unless otherwise defined, the state level has free scope to set policy as they see fit. This is something I strongly believe in...a guarantee of rights for everyone within the federal country, while giving wide scope to states giving them the ability to set policy as they see fit. This is opposed to unitary countries (France, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland) who issue all policy, laws etc at a national level which everyone has to follow. The US Constitution is vaguely worded enough that it cannot be seen as a document frozen in time, only guaranteeing rights to white males, still seeing people of color as slaves, women as subserviant and other minorities as non-existent...that makes the Constitution functionally useless. It has to be interpreted as a living document whereby its definitions capture wider groups of people as the progress of time marches on. The Constitution owes its longevity to this.
 
Unfortunately, the flagrant disregard for significantly established judicial precedent makes the concept of 'settled law' an impossibility now. Like I said, anything and everything is up for grabs. Inter-racial marriage, contraception, same-sex marriage, the privacy of the individual. Hell, even the concept of the 2nd Amendment could be reconsidered over whether it gives the right to a militia only rather than the people on an individual level.

Just checked the USCIS app & saw “New card is being produced”. LIN center. No interview. Biometrics were waived. Filed for I-751 in March 2021.

Just checked the USCIS app & saw “New card is being produced”. LIN center. No interview. Biometrics were waived.

Google Flights finds multiple flights. Most flights go through Turkey, Qatar, or Egypt. 
 
If your wife only needs to renew her external passport ("zagran"), it should be fairly easy to do at the consulate. Pretty sure New York consulate still did external passports renewals but I think only with cash. Even if her passport expires, she still can renew it easily after the expiry date with internal Russian passport or birth certificate. 

Nuts Vladimir Putin

We noted that the one group of fighters that even the Russian soldiers fear, Chechnyan fighters, have over 12,000 volunteers wanting to go to Kyiv.  If that happens there will be terrible and unspeakable bloodshed.

LIN service center here! Today my case is updated and new card is being produced! I really thought it would take much longer cuz I had no update since Fed 2021 after my fingerprints were applied.