My example is such. I met my wife-to-be on the Internet. A Russian studying Chinese in China. After visiting her for two weeks and seeing the opportunity to find work, I gave my two weeks notice and came back to stay. We lived together for 7 years in China and started a new family.
The single biggest reason that we never came to the USA during that time was the immigration process. During those seven years, my jobs were all for Chinese companies. I was unable to show the ability to financially support my family, despite the fact that since I was 18 I had been working, and thus had a history of showing I'd find a way to make ends meet.
So I was in a catch 22. Stay working in China to keep my family together would not allow me the opportunity to find the gainful employment I needed in America to bring my family there. The only option was to separate my family as I found work in the USA, then begin the immigration process.
After seven years, I finally tried it. Now, anyone who has been together for seven years, who has gone through those ups and downs of being together and raising a family together, they've pretty well established that the basis for their relationship is not to take advantage of a system or a government. I don't see why it is so god damned hard or necessary to keep a family separated for a year or longer. What information will be found to detract from the meaning of this establishment the family is united under?
Unfortunately, the US immigration policies don't care. The members of our government don't seem to care. I implored my Democratic senator, Amy Klobuchar, for help in reuniting my family sooner. This was the response.
Not very helpful. And the reasoning USCIS gave was poor. Humanitarian. What does that mean anyways? From Google:
hu·man·i·tar·i·an/(h)yo͞oˌmanəˈterēən/Geez.. so there was nothing humanitarian in my request to reunite my family in a timely manner? In the meantime, my step-son is having issues finding a proper education and my wife is having trouble finding a place to live resulting in them floating back and forth between Vladivostok, Russia and Dalian, China. They lack access to adequate healthcare over there yet I have a job which would provide health insurance for all my family once they are here in the USA. And then my son could have access to a more stable education. Color me stupid but forcing them to continue separated from their father and husband, and my daughter who is here in the USA with me, that is very humane.
adjective1.
concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare.
"groups sending humanitarian aid"
synonyms: compassionate, humane;
This is the sort of garbage that gets my blood boiling. And just to set matters straight, I did try to bring my family here once in 2014 but had the petition withdrawn because I was unable to prove the ability to financially support my family in the USA. There's a case number and everything for it. I'm not sure why the process couldn't be started from there or at least sped up a little. All the casework had been done before.
