Nov 14, 2007 19:23
Today I found out that Nadezhda's friend Masha will also be coming to America to live. She will be in Detroit. That is such wonderful news to me. I am very happy for her. She can have someone in the US that will understand what she is going though. Someone she can call and not worry about the time difference. Someone who can relate to her and help her with some of the issues that stem from leaving the motherland. I want so much to be everything she needs, but I know that I can't, and I am so very happy to hear this news. Nadezhda is very happy about it too. I think it means a lot to her, even though it isn't so close, it still isn't so far! Today Nadezhda also told me to start looking into the Visa applications. Wow, that is a big step forward for her. She is really starting to feel confident and ready for the next step. It will cost us well over $1,000 in immigration headaches to get her here. First I need to do a huge application and provide proof we are together and happy. I need to bring e-mails, dated pictures, receipts, phone bills, and anything proving we have been together and we are happy. Talk about an invasion into our relationship. Remember that movie with Mandy Moore, Robin Williams, and Jim from The Office? Yeah, it is sort of like that. Atleast I think it is, I haven't watched the movie. After I fill that out, it will take 4 - 6 weeks for it to be approved and sent to the embassy in her country. Then she'll have to fill out tons of paperwork, go to a doctor and be evaluated for tons of things, get all the shots she needs, and pay them more money. After that she will have an interview and they will then decide if she can come for 90 days. If they give her that she will come for 90 days within 6 months from that date, then before her 90 days here is up we need to file a petition to extend her status here indefinitely, this takes twice as much paperwork as the original visa, twice the cost, and must be completed in a few days!
It will be great to have it all done with and just have her here with me. I can't imagine what it would feel like to hold her in my arms and not have an end in sight. There has always been an end ever since we met, not an end of us, but an end of when we can be each other, when we can touch each other. I want there to be no end, to know what that feels like with her! It will be so great!