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25 January 2007

¡¡¡GOURANGA!!! I bought a ticket to the states. One-way! I just got the date of my visa interview, and it should really be a formality. After that, I'll be marrying the nice lady I met in the now-defunct MetaFilter IRC channel. A new life awaits for the generic one!

post by: Pretty_Generic at: 18:11 | 26 comments

awwwwwwww! Nice lady lurrrrve Pretty_Generic. So sweet.

posted by taz 25 January | 18:13

Exciting! Where will you guys be living, again? Will you be stopping by NYC to meet up with us?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 25 January | 18:21

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by Pretty_Generic 25 January | 18:22

Indiana to start with. Then prolly DC.

posted by Pretty_Generic 25 January | 18:23

Yay, indeed!

posted by By the Grace of God 25 January | 18:27

That's great news.

posted by essexjan 25 January | 18:49

Congratulations!

posted by pieisexactlythree 25 January | 18:51

God Damned Immigrants.

posted by seanyboy 25 January | 19:00

*shakes fist at the stealer-of-Pretty_Generic*

posted by grouse 25 January | 19:07

I hope you really love her. I hear the new body cavity search at customs is a bitch.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 25 January | 19:08

Hello I am a girl and I enjoy pink things. I am excited to get married to Pretty_Genrick.

posted by Pretty Generic's Totally Not Made Up Fian 25 January | 19:23

Then prolly DC.

Gonna sleep on Steve_at_Linwood's sofa are you?

posted by terrapin 25 January | 19:55

Congrats, P_G and PGTNMUF! May your new life together be full of joy, success, and whuffles. Lots and lots of whuffles.

posted by elizard 25 January | 20:12

The love of pretty_generic and thirteenkiller - it has a ring to it. Congratulations, you two crazy kids! And by crazy I mean, well, crazy.

But in a good way.

posted by mygothlaundry 25 January | 20:18

Heh! I'm at the beginning of the whole visa process (and the alphabet soup of bureaucratic hooey -- I-129F, NOA1, G-325A, blah blah blah). It'll take about nine months, I figure -- in September I'll give birth to a six-foot-tall baby with a beer gut, stubble and a British accent. I looking forward to it!

Congratulations on surviving the process, and best wishes on your life together!

posted by psho 25 January | 20:33

Awww, congrats!

posted by Specklet 25 January | 20:55

Congradulamations!

posted by deborah 25 January | 20:59

psho - this is what you need

posted by Pretty_Generic 25 January | 20:59

So once you arrive you can get married and then file your 485 for AOS, your 765 for your EAD, your 131 for your AP, and associated stuff like your 865.

Then you wait eons for your interview, and then 20 months later you file your 751 to remove your condition.

Clear and simple, and only ~$1000 in fees.

visajourney is excellent, as is alt.visa.us.marriage-based

posted by ROU Xenophobe 25 January | 21:00

Congrats! Take pictures of you guys together after you're married. The INS will want them in about three years. And is that the hedgehog with a flower in your photo montage? I love that hedgehog.

posted by youngergirl44 25 January | 22:27

fucking awesome, peeg

posted by trondant 25 January | 23:17

Congrats P_G and 13K, really pleased for you both.

posted by greycap 26 January | 02:20

Mazel tov!

posted by sisterhavana 26 January | 02:26

Congrats! Wishing you much awesomeness!

I hope the u-SOFA is good to you. Don't mind the mess. Or the idiot in charge.

posted by grapefruitmoon 26 January | 04:14

Happy times!

Ah yes, I remember my green card interview like it was only 2 years ago.

posted by gaspode 26 January | 10:35

P_G: I've been visiting VisaJourney for about 6 months now -- it has been very helpful indeed. It's good to know that we're not doing this alone.

posted by psho 26 January | 12:57

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