I was busy washing our M3 this afternoon since it had rained quite a bit the last weeks, and the car was pretty dirty so it was about time someone did something about it, plus I am the one who usually drive in the BMW and Michelle usually only drives the Mercedes so I thought it would be justified for me to wash ‘my’ (haha) car.

While I was washing the car (this reminds me of a joke: “what was was before was was was?”, I will give the answer later in this post), the mailman (woman) dropped by. I checked if there was any mail for us, and what do you think? There was a letter from the USCIS (Department of Homeland Security). Exciting!

I opened the letter right away, while my hands were still half wet hehe, and I read the following:

“WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

“This is to notify you that your application for permanent residence has been approved. It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to permanent resident status in the United States.”

And some other information about the card and such. The letter stated that I can expect my green card within three weeks by mail, but I think it might actually be with a week, that is, if I can believe the statistics… the statistics said that I would receive this letter after about 8 days when I was approved, and indeed, it has been exact 8 days ago and since the statistics also say it takes 7 days after this letter for the green card to arrive, I think I can expect it soon also. I am curious if it is true but I am not worried any more

This is really great news. We will not have to worry for another 2 years after we received the green card. The only thing we need to do is to make sure that we can show them in 2 years that we are still married (which is just the same as we did now so I doubt that will cause us problems) and request a new card.. after that it is over with us having to prove that our marriage is for real and in good faith because then I will come out of the conditional status (these two years are conditional: I have to stay married in order to be able to stay here during these two years, but yeah, do you really think I would stay here when I was not married to Michelle? Not really, then I would rather be in the Netherlands as I have my family there and there is not much here, besides Michelle and our ‘peanut’). And if I want, then I can request citizenship within three years, after which I get a US passport next to my Dutch one and then I can also vote in the 2012 elections haha.

Right, I still owe you guys the right answer, here goes: Before was was was, was was is!

Think about that

Tags: Greencard, Immigration, Marriage

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