Since I have gone through the whole immigration process and finally completed it, I want to vent and groan about the way immigration is handled in the US.

First off, a little history... I came to the US in 98 as a student, finished college, got married, had a child and applied for my residency in 2001.

It took until 2004 for these blokes to finally check out that I am a) legal, b) not a terrorist c) married and d) live in this marriage... WOOW almost 3 years to finish this crap.

But then again, my mistake was that I filed in Texas, which traditionally has the most illegal immigrants (right up there with CA) which bogs down the immigration process. I had a friend that from Germany, she applied and got her green card within 3 months... but then again she filed in Minessota (and who wants to live there).
All the while I have been following the news and realized that since 98 there have been 4 amnesties for illegal immigrants! Let me put that into perspective:
I paid over 4000$ for lawyers and fees to the INS and if I would have broken the law from the get go, I would have not had any problems getting a green card???! WTF? The assenine logic is the following: Break the law and you will be rewarded rather than prosecuted?????? You tell me if that makes sense!?

:bird: :gun:

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