I'm getting married! To someone from LJ! Again!

[joellevand]

 Yes, I'm absolutely marrying deathboy

...who posted the news on here faster than I could because LastPass wouldn't remember my password and I had to reset it.

I absolutely love Scott to pieces, more than words can say, and since we met via LiveJournal, it seemed only right to announce it on here--months after we announced it to the rest of the world.

But

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[haltedgrace]

Congrats!

[catyak]

Congratulations!

And good luck with the UK's immigration system. We did it back in 1998 when it was a lot easier, and they closed a lot of doors behind us (wasn't our fault though). Then we did the US version as well for good measure.

[joellevand]

Oh, i know. We're 18 weeks into the 24 week wait for family visas from outside the UK. It's been a longer and more convoluted process than bringing my ex from the UK to the US, which was just over a 5 month wait from application to arrival, but was as straight forward as apply, wait, interview, visa.

[catyak]

Ours was fairly straightforward for UK entry, filled in the paperwork, it was a phone interview with the consulate in LA (while chatting to me on-line), wait a bit, then the visa arrived. I don't know what the process is now, but back then it was a fiancee visa, which had to be swapped out after getting married to a 1-year visa, which then got swapped for a permanent one at the end of the year. Coming the other way was more complex with medicals and a trip to London to the US embassy, but at least the end result was a green card straight off. It helped that by then we'd been married for several years and had a child, so it was clearly not a marriage just to get a green card. Oh, and lots of $$$ (or £££).

[joellevand]

Currently, UK process is

[dreamallday]

congrats!