Dear USCIS (Immigration) YOU SUCK!

What was I thinking? How could I have the audacity to fall in love with a Canadian? Hmm...that's what the government seems to asking me. My hubby, Kelly, has been in the US, LEGALLY, for almost 10 years. The first 5 or so, he was here on a work Visa. Totally legit. Then he met me, and we married 2 years later. Upon marrying me, he could then apply for legal residence through marriage. That's when we started jumping through hoops, and have been doing so for almost 3 years now.

The first application we had to fill out an obscene amount of paperwork and send anything and everythin we had to prove we were actually together. I'm not talking regular stuff like statements and such. They wanted receipts from gifts we had bought eachother, cards we gave, ticket stubs from movies, love letters, wedding pictures, honeymoon pictures, cards that friends had given us at the wedding, Christmas cards that had been sent and addressed to both of us, wedding invitations, wedding program...the list goes on and on. Good greif they had more personal stuff from me than I had ever given anyone!

We had to have a meeting with a bitch of a lady downtown and try to prove to her we were truly in love...lol That woman was the nastiest, most cold hearted person I've ever met. She asked if I had the original copy of my divorce. I had it...and she TOOK IT! Not a copy, my original divorce, and told me I had to file some bs form to get it back from the government. WHAT??! It's my divorce, not his. I WAS BORN HERE! The divorce happened before I ever even met him. **side note here...I still have not gotten that divorce decree back..

3 months (as least) and $5000.00 in attorney fees and application fees later, he's approved. Ohhh but wait...2 months later and still no green card in the mail. The dumbasses at USCIS wrote our address wrong on the envelope and it was never delivered. WTF. Our address is written 10,000 times on paperwork you have, and you STILL can't spell it right...idiots. 2 more months and the card finally arrives.

2 years later...yup, the whole fiasco again. When you file through marriage, you have to file every 2 years for 7 years to prove you're still together. Whatever. Another 2000.00 in fees and another stack of paperwork and personal mementos proving we've been together...anniversary cards to eachother and from family, receipts for anniversary gifts bought...ridiculous.

And today I get an email from the attorney...the government wants more proof before they will approve. Financial records showing joint accounts and utility bills showing co-habitation. ...which I have already sent...twice...

Really, now I can see if he were from a country where the US has had problems. Or if he hadn't lived here before. But for Crying Out Loud he's CANADIAN!!! He lived here legally for 5 years prior. So we are going through all this bullshit, paying all this money just so we can say he's here legal. Meanwhile there's hundreds of thousands of people here illegally getting all the benefits that we are having a hell of a time fighting for. Go after those slackers! We have done everything asked and paid a stupid amount of money for you to say...hmmm I'm not sure.

So yup...I'm a little irritated to day. What a joke US immigration is...