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Green card update

At first I was concerned we would get the white male interviewer with crew cut and four American flags on his office window (one, normal; four, crazy town). Instead…

  • Sweet middle aged woman
  • Double-checked that our forms were correctly filled
  • Asked how we met
  • Spent ten minutes going through our travel photos asking what the countries were like
  • Out in 15 minutes, approved for permanent residence

5 Responses

  1. Great news Chris! Finally we Americans are importing something of value.

  2. So I guess even Yale academics stereotype and have bit a prejudice in them too, huh? Only against the approved classes though, like white men with crew cuts. Probably a former a military guy (you know how wacko those people are). Change the color or the sex, and then it’s wrong, right?

  3. ooh I remember mine!
    They asked my hubby what my parent’s names were. He said ‘baba Wanjiru’ and ‘mama Wanjiru’. He would never have reason to address them by their first names.

    Still got the card though.

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