First let me say that just becuase I am a US Marine I do not beleive I am entitled to anything more than anyone else. However if I can risk my life for my country and stand in front of the junior Marines I lead in a war (which i have done x2 deployments) than the motivation for why I fight for our freedom, my wife, deserves to stay here legally. I initally contacted the so called customer service center. I do not know why they call it customer service becuase no real service ever happens on those phone calls. I contacted them becuase I did not trust USCIS after reading and hearing all these horror stories. I was right. I was told me wife who is here legally til Sept on a J 1 Visa was going to be deported, then I heard she could stay, I heard everything. Thats what happens when the Goverment hires people with GED's and lesser degrees. I understand that part. So then we proceeded to take off work to go to the Washington field office to talk to a real live immigration office! What a delight that was! She was all attitude in between every chomp of her BigMac, which from what I could see wasnt the first one she had ever had. She gave us all the required forms. I 485, I190 I325. However to my dismay when we began filling them out they were all expired forms! Luckily my base legal office gave us the right ones and we filed them. I included a note that I need the process expedited and for good reason. I need to reenlist in the USMC so that way I can stay in the fight. It is in our ethos, Semper Fidelis. However unless my wife can become legal I can not do that becuase what if I deploy I need her to come with me, or im not here and she gets deported. Not to mention we have a new born, and my wife can not get a license to take him to drs appointments b/s shes not legal! We even sent it priority mail. I did this so that I could force USCIS to do something that I must on a daily basis. That is BE ACCOUNTABLE. If I am not accountable and my Marines are not accountable to me.... we die. However USCIS still fudged that up. They didnt sign for the package and all the Post office can do is assure me they have it. But of course inbetween the 3 packages they do a day in between their stuffing their face with Cheetos and playing solitaire I stilla month later have no reciept # so that my Senators offices, who empathize with me, can expedite it. My senators office needs to the receipt # so that way they can track it and have it sent to the local field office for expedition. In between all the fat mildly retarded Immigration officers, the red tape and the bullshit, I have grown to hate USCIS. They are part of the Department of Homeland Security. What makes our Homeland more secure besides the men and women who are sacrificing their lives for our freedom, in other words me? In conclusion I found a paper Dr Emilio T Gonzalez, head of USCIS wrote. It is all about how he feels Military claims should be expedited b/c he was in the army and he understands, yada yada yada. Hey Dr. Gonzalez, Im throwing up the bullshit flag on that one buddy. That paper may of gotten you the job and a standing ovation and some black tie dinner you gave it at, but here in the real world the rest of us know your full of caca. Semper Fidelis, keep fighting immigration, theres many battlefields and many warriors, and I am a warrior on the same battlefield as the rest of you. Good luck in all future endeavors.
