It's continues to be an overwhelming few days...

As most of you know I have petitioned for Walo since 2001 and up to now it's being a really grueling process. You never really know what to expect when you start the immigration process and when you're doing it alone you find that you have no real support. Sometimes even Walo doesn't even understand everything that's involved.

I find it frustrating when people offer blind suggestions on how to fix our case. Just hearing some of the comments from others who are offering their "help" really makes me tired. I get to the point of not wanting to talk about where our case is because it somehow I'm made to feel like it's my fault the things that have gone wrong. Maybe that's not the intention of the person who's making the comments and I'm exaggerating but that's how I feel.

Some of the comments I've received are:

"You lawyer doesn't know what s/he is doing!"
"How come it’s taken so long and so and so is already done and back home"
"I know someone who knows someone that can fix Walo's papers fast!"
"But why did you do this or do that?"
“Have him come back and wait over here!”

I shouldn't say I don't have much support because I have my family and I2US.net. A great wealth of knowledge and support from many women (and men!) about their experience throughout the immigration process. There we celebrate the approvals and cry with the denials.

The bottom line is that Walo’s case is complicated and the timing was bad. Eduardo has asked me to come and move to Mexico this coming June. As much as that scares me, I hate saying and hearing "just wait I'm sure something is coming in the mail..." because we say it week after week and there's NOTHING in the mail.

I’m getting ahead of myself because we still need to know what the final decision is for Walo’s waiver. I don’t want to needlessly worry myself about moving because it’s not time too.

Up to now, I think I’ve contacted every single source of help. Tomorrow is another day of calling and what’s better is that it’s double the mail tomorrow thanks to President’s Day… so maybe there’s something there for us.