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Let us know what you learn, because this might be enlightening for others here.

You dodged a bullet in that she didn't understand or stick around for Adjustment. If your new relationship progresses, make sure that she knows all about the scam situation. The Bogota consulate might ask her for details about it, at the eventual visa interview.

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Read the last paragraph! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After Fox Interview, Kamala Calls McDonald's To Ask If Her Old Job Still Available U.S. — Immediately after leaving her interview with Fox News, Kamala Harris called up McDonald's to see if she could by chance have her old job back. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/after-fox-interview-kamala-calls-mcdonalds-to-ask-if-her-old-job-still-available

Democrats Wondering If It's Too Late To Go Back To Joe Biden U.S. — After watching Kamala self-immolate on national television, Democrats have begun wondering if it's too late to just go back to Joe Biden. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-wondering-if-its-too-late-to-go-back-to-joe-biden

'Oops, We Meant To Say UP,' Explains FBI After Months Of Saying Crime Is Down WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress Wednesday, confirming what many have known for months: the crime rate is not down, it's up. In his opening remarks, Director Wray said, "Oops, we meant to say up. Crime is up. It is not, as previously stated, down. It's possible we have been holding the chart upside down for the past several months. Our bad." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/oops-we-meant-to-say-up-explains-fbi-after-months-of-saying-crime-is-down

ABC News Argues 9/11 Overblown As It Was 'Only A Handful Of Buildings' U.S. — In a tense exchange with Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance, ABC news anchor Martha Raddatz argued that the tragedy of September 11th had been way overblown since it only involved a handful of buildings. "They only hit three buildings, and you're calling this a major issue?" asked Raddatz, incredulous. "You realize I can literally count on one hand how many planes were hijacked. Stop making 9/11 out to be such a big deal." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/abc-news-argues-911-overblown-as-it-was-only-a-handful-of-buildings

Iron Dome Jew vs. Beeper Jew In a searing short video, Tom Trento of the United West highlights the bloodthirsty, perverted, and bestial actions of Hamas which led to the October 7, 2023 Holocaust in Israel. In the video, Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone speaks of "the Iron Dome Jew who spends a lot of time trying to figure out how not to get hit versus the Beeper Jew who figures out how nobody can hit [him or her] ever again." Clearly during the massacre of October 7th, the Iron Dome approach failed. It has become increasingly clear that the only way to stop Hamas is to totally and irrevocably destroy it. Israel is doing the world's job by cutting off the head of the snake. The words of Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Senator Joe Biden in 1982 reveal the need for utter devotion to this goal. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/iron_dome_jew_vs_beeper_jew.html

That Fox News Interview May Have Done To Kamala What The Debate Did To Biden [...] Remarkably, she offered nothing new in terms of her weak, often confusing answers to obvious questions, but she did finally face probing lines of inquiry and necessary follow-up when time after time she attempted to change the subject from her performance in the White House to attacks on Donald Trump. [...] https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/16/that-fox-news-interview-may-have-done-to-kamala-what-the-debate-did-to-biden/

Another dumb article by inferior humans. We'd rather fling it than eat it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scientists discover concerning behavioral changes in chimps: 'Could something so small have prevented the pandemic?' Scientists have found that chimpanzees are turning to bat feces for nutrients in concentrated areas of deforestation, which could have implications for human epidemics, reports Mongabay. What's happening? In the Budongo Forest in Uganda, animals — including chimpanzees, monkeys, and antelope — rely on minerals from decaying palm trees, per the report. However, between 2006 and 2012, these trees were excessively cut down to use as strings for tobacco leaves to dry on. Because chimpanzees crave sodium, they turn to other means to get it, including chewing on cement bricks. According to a new study published in Communications Biology, some animals have made changes to their diet to include the guano, or animal droppings, of bats. The study found 839 instances of three species feeding on bat guano from July 2017 to October 2017 and from September 2018 to April 2019. This behavior had reportedly never been documented among forest-dwelling mammals before. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-discover-concerning-behavioral-changes-103051365.html

Thrilling Wednesday report, see man: Miu was batpoop-crazy in the morning, absolute wildmiu man. Zoom zoom zoom "miu miu miu" crash bang jump "miu miu miu" zoom crash jump "miu," wow man. We had to brush her twice, no effect man. This went on for over an hour straight, oh our heavens man. By eve, miu sat lazily on our lap for half an hour, then zzz'd out, lazing zzz-ing miu man. As ex-Mrs.-T-B. often said, "Send her to the miu psychologist, si man," si man. Lunch was 2 turkey-&-cheese sandwiches, ingest we man. Took Mama T-B. to get shot, inoculated senior she man man. Mama T-B. then wanted to browse CVS, impatient we man. We're afraid that we made it unpleasant, must apologize we man. We then delivered Rx's to Uncle T-B. and collected needed stuff, new investments man. We then got a few requested grocery items for Mama T-B., upset-at-us senior she man. We acted and feel like a rat, sigh man. Din-din was Tuna Glop, ingest we man. With miu asleep upstairs, we put canned stuff into the pantry, no invasive miu man. Thursday is Two Guys eve, Two Guys man. And that was/is our thrilling Wednesday, report we man.

Good luck and keep the faith, si Y ma'am.

No BLM members were around at the time, apparently.

Ooo -- that's some article. I hadn't heard of it in San Antonio, but it's unsurprising. They'll have some success but will also be dealt with more aggressively, I bet.

Matthew, welcome to VJ! Your inquiry has been merged into the long-standing Panama thread. Read through at least the most recent posts for possible information. You can also read the "Office Reviews & Info" under the dropdown tab atop any VJ page. Good luck in your process!

Indeed. Fulfill the requirement in timely fashion, then plan the big shindig at your leisure.

Thread is moved from the K-1 Process forum to the Social Security Numbers subforum -- topic involves that phase.

Again, time together and familiarity (the unknown becoming known) should prove the ticket in most cases. Time heals all wounds. In addition, time wounds all heels.

It is Wednesday -- time for our approval-evoking* Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: *if correlation = causation =========================================================== MARITAL STATUS I went to the store and bought a banana, cereal, and milk. The female cashier said, "You must be single!" I said, "Yes, but how do you know that?" "Because you're ugly!"

Terrified Tim Walz Stands On Chair All Day Waiting For Wife To Get Home And Kill Spider SAINT PAUL, MN — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz canceled his campaign events today after spotting a spider on the wall of the living room and immediately jumping up on a chair to safety, where he spent the rest of the day waiting for his wife to get home. "Ahhh! Kill it! Kill it!" Walz reportedly cried aloud to an empty house before remembering his wife had gone out to run some errands. "Gwen, where are you? GWEN!?" [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/terrified-tim-walz-stands-on-chair-all-day-waiting-for-wife-to-get-home-and-kill-spider

Important. ~~~~~~~~~~ Islamic Scholar Lets Slip the Truth: 'If Preserving Life Had Priority, There Would Be No Jihad' After 9/11, we were inundated with the claims that by this time have become near-universal assumptions: Islam is peace. Jihadis are just a tiny minority of extremists. Jihad means a spiritual struggle and is willfully or ignorantly misinterpreted among jihadis. Yet an Islamic scholar has just offered a succinct and telling enunciation of Islamic values that differs sharply from these claims. Is he an ignorant, racist, bigoted "Islamophobe" whose views can be easily dismissed? Hardly. He is an internationally respected Muslim Brotherhood leader whose words should be carefully pondered in Washington, but they won't be. The Kuwaiti Islamic scholar Tareq al-Suwaidan, who has been named among the 500 Most Influential Muslims for the last three years, recently enunciated a vision of Islamic values that differs markedly from what we have been told again and again in the West: "Preserving life is not the only objective of the shari'a – these include the preserving of religion, life, lineage, intellect, and property. These are the main objectives of the shari'a." That all sounds reasonable enough, but then al-Suwaidan added, "Which one of these objectives has higher priority? It is preserving religion, not preserving life. This is why there is a thing called 'Jihad.' If preserving life had the priority, there would be no Jihad – we would abolish it. Preserving religion takes priority over preserving life." Thus peace, which would preserve life, is not the ultimate goal; Islamization is. [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/10/15/islamic-scholar-lets-slip-the-truth-if-preserving-life-had-priority-there-would-be-no-jihad-n4933363

Is this accurate, or what? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kamala Harris Is an Idiot [...] I will offer another candid take: Kamala Harris is an idiot. Like the little boy staring at the naked emperor in the famous fairy tale of yore, I can scarcely believe what I am seeing before my eyes. Since she replaced Joe Biden on the ticket, reporters have struggled mightily to find kind ways of describing Harris's ineluctable inability to convey anything comprehensible, complex, or concrete. [...] https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/kamala-harris-is-an-idiot/

Asia owes us an update and more regular participation, oj tak. Owe-updating participate-not-enoughing Asia! Owe-updating, OWE-UPDATING participate-not-enoughing PARTICIPATE-NOT-ENOUGHING Asia!

Thanks to all for minimizing political talk in this thread. --- To the OP: There will always be a small segment of people (related to us or not) who will consider anyone from Panama, Ecuador, or wherever to be a "stupid Mexican" or an "illegal" or whatever. Simply ignore it, from all quarters. If a stranger or slight acquaintance says something, blow it off. Why should we value the opinion of someone whose advice we would never ask for? If it's an "important" relative, give him/her time, and let your beneficiary win him/her over by means of friendly, smiling, gracious behavior. Try to have that relative outnumbered in the company of supportive relatives, especially at first. If it's a supposed friend, try the same as just above; if this isn't successful, re-evaluate whether this person is a genuine friend, and act accordingly. If anyone openly says anything prejudiced or rude, get in their face and let them have it, verbally -- even if (and especially!) in public. That should shut them up and make it clear exactly how wrong they are. Hopefully, this won't be necessary, but bullies will always back down when we stand up to them. I don't think that the relative and friend are necessarily part of a political environment. Rather, I think that people react as individuals in negative or dismissive ways when they fear the unknown, whether it's an unknown situation or a person whom they haven't met. Legal immigration, as we here know, is a process unfamiliar to probably 99.44% of non-VJ people. When you let your reluctant people see that your newcomer isn't a threat and you educate them to the process bit by bit, I think that they'll come around. Mentally formulate a couple of avenues and approaches in advance, tip off your beneficiary as to people's possible ranges of reaction, and you'll be prepared. I have a feeling that all will turn out fine for you.