My little latin love story, Part 7 of ...

Now the hard part...

The only difficult part about making a big decision, like marriage is all the paperwork that goes along with it. As soon as I got home I began to research exactly what it was going to take to bring Mili to the US. The following week; I sent a form, a set of pictures, and a copy of my birth certificate with $95.00 to Nebraska. We continued to chat and write letters. The overall tone of the letters had become more romantic and we constantly spoke about being together again.

A month later I received a letter from the Department of Immigration and Naturalization (INS). The letter said that they had received my petition to bring my fiancé to the US and that it would be about two months to find out if my petition had been approved or not.

The idea of being without Mili for two more months was heartbreaking. I missed her, and my coworkers and parents were getting real tired of hearing about it. I broke the news and we mourned together. The next day I took my computer to a friend’s house to have a LAN party, when I brought my computer home that night and plugged it in to write Mili, it began to smoke. For reasons that I was unable to understand God smote my computer, frying the Motherboard, the hard drive, the video card, the network card, and the sound card. I was surprised because I had a surge protector and when I told the techs at the computer store, they said, “Wow, really? I never heard of that happening before.” $400, the help of my computer savvy brother and a week later we were able to communicate again on a more regular basis.

In August I received another letter from the INS. They said that they needed more forms, copies of every financial document I ever had, proof that we were engaged, proof that we had spent time together, a letter from a third party saying the we weren’t getting married just so Mili could get a Visa and $145. It took me a week to gather everything up, get it all notarized and sent off.

Dun dun duuuuunnnnn....