Current Status: Card production ordered.
On February 12, 2007, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.
Dear co-sufferers,
It is with delight to let you know that my case (both main and dependant) was approved yesterday. It’s been a long and bumpy ride for both me and my wife, but we are willing to forget the ugly part and focus on a better future. After all, we are the first generation of immigrants and sucking it all is all we can do.
What will this green card mean to me?
I will be free to travel around the world freely (especially after I get my passport in a few years). I won’t need to face failed little people in the foreign embassies or airports checking my passport and making those despicable faces, trying all tricks in the book to humiliate the needy person in front of them. I have a long series of such faces in my memory, ugly and low-class faces, I can make an album out of them.
I will be free to work whenever I want, wherever I want, and negotiate my package like a real American. I won’t be subject to “non-sponsoring” denials, to H-1B caps, to conditioned negotiations based on immigration status, to “important” people taking a month before signing my immigration forms, to the fear factor that if (God forbid) I am fired for any reason, I would have to pack and go home and see my dream come to an end (I had an international friend of mine falling victim of a lay-off and packing home – it was very bitter after all the sacrifices he and his wife had made). In a few words, I won’t be subject to abuse on the name of documentation. There were countless times when I was treated like shit and went back to my computer and opened my USCIS account to check the status of my case, as if I was looking for revenge. Countless times that I wished I was free to just go, but I couldn’t. As I like to put it, they don’t send ships to bring them chained in the land of the opportunity nowadays, we come on our own, we actually try really hard to come on our own.
Last, but certainly not least, it is the official confirmation that I am starting a new life. I will be able to offer a better future, with many more choices to my kids. They won’t be subject to the same abuse their father was at the embassies, airports, or working places. They won’t face poverty, corruption, and lack of opportunities, even though they are smart and educated. On the opposite, they will be assertive Americans waiving their blue passport and demanding respect, fair treatment, and good salaries allover the world. This is my legacy.
I dreamed to come to America when I was 20. I will probably be American (have a passport) when I am 40. In this process, I have been through the same shits that all of you have been. This dream sucked me dry but at the same time kept me alive. I had a dream, and I prevailed. Years will pass by and we’ll all dust off memories of our freedom-craving time in America and the associated sacrifices. No one will believe our stories, not even our friends, and least our kids. We’ll carry those stories to our graves, as we’ll be marked for the rest of our lives as “first generation immigrants”.
My dear co-sufferers. Thank you to you, to this forum and all the ideas we have been exchanging with each other. I prefer not to mention names, as we all know the ones who contribute most. Their work screams louder than any written name. I wish the best of luck and speeder admission to all of you. We have all been like a family here, talking to each other on a daily basis, and yet, we never saw each other. My love to all of you. See you guys in the “life after green card” and “US Citizenship” forums.
