So apart from getting consent from our parents, we also need the permission of the US government before we can get married in Seattle this summer.

Thinking about it just now as I am trying to formulate my thoughts on how to retell the process on this post makes me all drained and tired, but in all fairness everything has gone well so far even if it has meant a lot of work. It all started about 6-7 months by my fiance applying for the visa process to start through filing with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Of course we prepared it together and there was a lot of documentation that was needed to be sent in.

Luckily, a friend told me about an excellent website called the visajourney.com, which is about (in their own words) marriage and family Immigration to the USA (K Visa). To give you an idea of how many steps a fiance visa consists of 23 steps as seen below:

This image I captured from the following page (since the page is long I had to do something better than pressing the PrtScrn button on the keyboard, so I used HyperSnap-DX). So long story short, I am on step 13, having had my interview and am waiting to get my visa.

As it turns out there is still another two years of paperwork ahead of me before I can take a break after getting my green card or become neutralized as the correct terminology for it is. Hope that at some point when the citizenship process has to start, it will be less of a pain.