Ok, it looks like we should be on a safe side anyway. It would have been so unfair to come to the US legally to work; work, work, and work so hard nonstop for many many years, almost without any weekends and breaks, at the expense of sleep, personal life, and other basics; raise a child as a single parent; go through lots of hardships, privation, stress, and very serious health problems for the sake of work done, keeping job, and building son's future; sacrifice personal happiness for the sake of keeping job and continuously staying here in this country; go through the "nightmare" of getting "green card" ... and eventually get a denial and go back to where we came from! (I got my GC after 7.5 years working in the US, 4.5 years of which was awaiting for the GC - by the way, I am not an illegal immigrant; I am not a seasonal field worker; I came here not as a fiancee of a US citizen - I came here as a scientist and university professor with the PhD from one of the top Universities in the world, I have over 200 publications, and work hard on many industry projects that directly contribute to the US economy). No way I would have been able to do so much if I stayed in my country. I cannot continue my research effectively and efficiently if I go back to my home country! I am already too exhausted to start all over again in any other country. I hope Lord can see all my endeavor. Will the IO see?????
