Amanda Gillespie Rules OK!
I spent a large chunk of the day today waiting in various rooms in a large office building in Garden City, Long Island. It was all worth it in the end, though, because I left said building with a green card. (Or at least a stamp in my passport which says that I'm getting a conditional green card.) Oh happy day!
To my enormous surprise, the entire process, from application to approval, took only a little over six months – everybody else I know who's gone through it spent years, and my good friends Alex and Amy still don't have their green card, despite applying in 2002! So something, somewhere, has become much more efficient than it used to be.
My friends Mimi and Elliott were incredibly helpful in this process, as were various other people including the Lawyer Crowd: Alison, Rosalind, Seda, Lucy – thank you all very, very much for your help, advice and guidance along the way. But for anybody else who's thinking of applying for a green card or any other visa (especially O visas), I just have two words for you: Amanda Gillespie. Amanda is some kind of immigration genius, and she's also an incredibly friendly and helpful person who deserves an enormous amount of credit for the successful outcome of my case. Amanda, you're the best, and I can't recommend you highly enough!
I also have a request for readers of this blog. It turns out I only have a conditional green card, and that I have to file something called an I-751 90 days before my conditional green card expires in 2 years' time. Says the piece of paper I got given today:
If the petition to remove the conditional basis of your status is not filed within 90 day period, your Conditional permanent residence status will be terminated automatically and you will be subject to Deportation from the United States.
NOTE: The Service will not contact you in regard to the above, and It will be your sole responsibility to comply with the above Regulation.
What that all means is that on or after July 4, 2008, I have to remember to file an I-751. So I'd appreciate an email on July 3, 2008, reminding me to do that! Thanks!
Posted by Felix at 21:12 EST
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I think that hiring a law form with both a good tickler system and large malpractice insurance might be safer than appealing to your readers.
Posted by: David Sucher at 1:32 EST, October 06, 2006
FYI, Amy is also very pregnant....and they still don't believe us! So heads up scally-wags, it'll take a lot more than 6 years of marriage and a baby to pull the wool over their X-TRA SOOPER STRENGTH 3D goggles.
If that aint homeland secooritee then I don't know what is!
Alex & Amy
Posted by: Alex Clark at 7:37 EST, December 02, 2006
FYI, Amy is also very pregnant....and they still don't believe us! So heads up scally-wags, it'll take a lot more than 6 years of marriage and a baby to pull the wool over their X-TRA SOOPER STRENGTH 3D goggles.
If that aint homeland secooritee then I don't know what is!
Alex & Amy
Posted by: Alex Clark at 7:37 EST, December 02, 2006
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