Coming to America

It’s official! After nine long months of waiting, Jason had his immigration interview with the US Consulate in Auckland on Monday. True to form, he was guided through a metal detector, and then made to wait until he was called to a selected window and “interviewed” by two separate individuals. The first was a New Zealander who was there simply to collect his documentation and instill some fear when she curtly informed Jason he had applied too early and would need to get an extension on the fiancé visa petition so as not to arrive in the United States too early. The second was an American, who clearly had been doing this job for some time longer then the first, who held a very casual conversation with him about how we met and served to alleviate his fears when she said everything looked in order and issuing a visa should be no problem. She also confirmed that we were in fact not too early as the visa granted him six months to get into the country, however, he was free to wait to get the visa if he wished, no extension of petition required. He declined the offer of extension and sure enough the following day a courier package arrived at our front door with his “visaed” passport inside. Looks like all systems go.