Re: List of the US Concentration Camps
That was no doubt a sincere advice. Thanks.
I have enough savings from my decade of hard work. It's her that hasn't been easy to replace.
If you are all alone in a country and they deny you the only person who cheerfully talked to you for an hour and 41 minutes (that's what a $10 phone card allowed) every time you called her (despite being a medical student) when others can't wait to get rid of you, you'd understand.
Visa involved no minor glitches. Learning of the visa denial over "no proof of relatiuonship" shocked me, but offered hope that there had to have been some major misunderstanding, and as such, it could be resolved. I had visited her twice, when only a single visit is required for filing of a fiancee petition.
I stayed up late to talk to the interviewer, who answered calmly until I identified myself, then hastily "I'm busy" and hung up. She didn't want to talk to me while petition was still there at consulate. That day, she and her vice consul hustled to get the petition out. So, when I called on the next business they, an initially giggly interviewer told me that petition had already been returned and without petition there was nothing they could do. Vice consul told me: "Don't call us, call whoever has the petition, call the NVC, call the CIS (now CSC), call whoever."
I express mailed them 103 pages of her pre-interview printed emails, but they insisted that I wait to hear from the CIS, which re-approved the petition based on the same emails, except now over a year of time had taken it's toll, which is exactly what they had hoped for.
She was a beautiful yet simple girl of Polish-Russian descent, with a deceased mother and no sisters so she wasn't too attached to her parental home. Her dad was a PhD agricultural engineer and brother an electrical engineer. Her family was pro-Soviet. She never wanted to come to the US. So, at the end everyone is happy except me.