Well, my answer is citizenship. But that is one if those things you hae to weight personally; I however really want to vote in the next election.
My residency interview was fairly cordial too. I think the people who make those decisions may be a little better trained, or possibly I just got lucky. Unfortunately some of their personnel are poorly screened and/or poorly supervised and some agents indulge their prejudices. One agent had me drive from Potomac to BWI because, bottom line, he had never heard of an I visa (dependent of foreign journalist -- my father was the Washington correspondent for Southam newpapers). I had to take my four year old brother and go right then, because, he said, I did not have a sort of landing card which, it turned out, everyone *but* Canadians was required to have. He then told me at great length, in front of a frightened four year old boy, that he did not like Canadians and thought we had it too easy and we should all be deported. He then had me walk over the "border' at the airport. I was then readmitted with the proper paperwork, correcting the agency's error, but this was not made clear to me or my brother until I was already on the other side. We do need an INS; but its like, is it better to have a friendly cop who gets the routine stuff done and goes on to real problems, or a hostile cop who creates problems? What I describe above was solely a result of the INS' lack of familiarity with its own visa regulations. Anyway. May the luck of the draw be nicer than that to us both this time. Dana Larry C. Lyons writes: > I remember all too well from my first set of interviews for > residency. The interviewer was absolutely convinced that I was > trying to scam the government, that is until she asked for > documentary evidence that Wendy and I were married. Aside from the > certificate that is. I had waited until my J-1 Foreign Researcher > visa was about to expire and so was able to present to them a lot of > documentation. When I gave the person 4 years of cancelled cheques, > all here response was Oh, My. > > Needless to say there was no problems after that. I cannot say that > about the guy a couple of cubicles down from my interview. They were > giving him quite the 3rd degree about a couple of arrests. > > I've taken a few practice tests for the citizenship exam and have > done fairly well on it. I really should complete the process this > year - its a dilemma? $150 for the CFMX cert or the $250 (plus) for > the citizenship... > > larry > > >ya, it's oral and more of an interview than a test, I gather. But they are > >careful not to ask you questions with no correct answer, like "who has the > >right to delare war?" Erm, are we talking high school civics or real life > >here? The quesions are all and cut and dry, like, who is your senator or > >what do the stars on the flag represent. > > > >fwiw I got 8 out of 9. I refuse to count that quesion about the rights of > >aliens; none of the answers given is correct. I did get life libery and the > >pursuit of happiness wrong. > > > >Dana > > > >Larry C. Lyons writes: > > > >> Same here. Mind you 10 questions are nothing like the actual test. > >> > >> larry > >> > >> >http://www.rd.com/common/nav/index.jhtml?articleId=9526064 > >> > > >> >I got 10 out of 10. > >> > > >> > > >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
