Setting: Washington State, 1984
Search terms tried: illegal immigrant legitimized, illegal alien become legal, illegal immigrant route to legal residency, illegal immigrant under 18, also browsed the US's Immigration Services website ( Read more... )

Setting: Washington State, 1985.

I have a few questions about how a psychiatrist would deal with a teenager at this time.
( Suicide talk under the cut )

Doing some early research for my NaNo. I've asked a few similar things before, so this might look familiar, but still trying to settle on how the plot is going to go ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, I've been researching a couple of issues with little luck, so hopefully this comm can provide some assistance ( Read more... )

Hey guys ( Read more... )

Setting: Now, USA. (City not mentioned, but sort of based on Seattle)
Research: Live covers, copyright, wedding bands, cost of living (in Seattle and elsewhere ( Read more... )

1. If someone were arrested in the process of breaking and entering a business, but refused to answer any questions, what steps would a small-town police force in Washington state take? I assume they would hold and continue to attempt to question him, but he does not have any I.D. on him and won't give his name. Where do they go from here ( Read more... )

Googled: various permutations of Japanese internment, Washington State, Bangor Naval Base, etc. Found a lot about the Bainbridge Island Japanese community (which I was already somewhat aware of) but nothing more specific ( Read more... )

Hello. My writing partner and I have hit a bit of a snag in a story that we are writing because of one little detail ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern-day Seattle, Washington

I have a teenage girl (fifteen years old, to be exact) whose father passes away from morphine overdose and whose mother committed suicide about ten years before. Now, she doesn’t have any living grandparents or siblings. The only accessible relatives she has are her aunt and cousin, and while it was her ( Read more... )