TheDivaKnits

Did you ever see that movie? The one about the Russian mice who immigrate to America and the baby mouse, Feival gets separated from his parents? There’s a scene in that film where the Russian mice and all the immigrants are singing and dancing and the song they are singing is about how the streets in America are paved with cheese and how there are “no cats in America” in other words, opportunities abound and restrictions or dangers are nonexistant.

For 8 long, tiring, stressful years Barry and I have been attempting to live the American dream. You know, the ‘pursuit of happiness’ and all that baloney. There have been many times where I have said, “screw it– let’s move back to England” or “I hate not being able to do ____________” you name it– because of the whole immigration bs. And when he got a letter in January or February of this year, charging him with 11 different crimes, including “entering the country at an unknown port” *cough– I had no idea that LAX and customs is an unknown port, but ok* I about flipped my lid.

Thursday we had yet another court date. I am getting tired of these court dates. I am getting tired of being fed a constant and steady stream of how great America is and how lucky I am when my husband can’t get a driver’s license, can’t get a bank account, etc because of fuck-ups and snafus ALL on the government’s side of things. However, I am pretty sure that the NEXT court date will be the last. As for how it will go– it’s any body’s guess.

Hopefully, this year we will have an extra something to be thankful for. I don’t want any of my whining about the USCIS (INS) to make it sound like I am ungrateful– after all I live in a country where I can speak my mind freely, my education is partially paid for by the government, my daughter is in a school which is teaching to be a greater thinker than she already is, I have a roof over my head, etc. But, when the USCIS stuff is over with, it will be nice to not live my life always saying “once this is done we can ____” because we will be able to.

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