angry day

today is angry day. it is the day the amount of time my fiance and i are waiting for equals the average time it takes for this “phase” of the visa process. For us its been 124 days since we filed our petition. the average has probably gone up a bit to 126 days, but today is the day we set in our calendars which allows us to get extra pissed off at the whole process. not that we haven’t been pissed off at this whole process from the very beginning. for those of you not in the know, it takes a stupidly long time for the US government to process a fiance visa, and an even more stupidly long time to process a spousal visa.

picture this. you are a us citizen. you fall in love with a non-us citizen. if you decide to marry him/her, and want to go through the legal process of bringing your beloved into the country, it could take a year or more from the date you get engaged or the date you get married, to actually be reunited with your love.

why? because the US government doesn’t care about you. you are a us citizen, and therefore can be treated like shit. however if, you are an illegal immigrant, or a criminal alien as i like to call them, you are showered with free stuff, free money, free health care, and in the end, if john mccain or barack obama have their way, citizenship. thats right folks. us citizens sit in limbo for years, while criminal aliens get rewarded. this is the topsy-turvy world we live in.

why are citizens treated poorly while non-citizens get the benefits? well, its like something greeks like to do to each other – basically if you are dealing with another greek, they think its ok to screw you because “it’s ok, you’re greek” – that you’d be ok with shoddier service simply because we share a culture. so the us government likes to put up a friendly front for illegal immigrants, but to their owns citizens, they say screw you.

criminal aliens don’t have to wait. whole families cross the border. criminal aliens don’t have to be separated from their families. criminal aliens get to be together right away, and with most likely no repercussions.

so you think why don’t we do that too? cause i don’t believe in breaking the law. those of us who honor the law are punished, while those who break the law are rewarded. this is the world we are in.

so we suffer. we seethe. we get angry. but in the end, it doesn’t matter. some low paid government functionary holds 70,000 peoples lives a year in the balance, takes their time, doesn’t really care that the names on those petitions are living breathing people with lives who miss their loves desperately.

no one cares.