Update on my wife...

[Radar]

Well after waiting for four long years my wife finally got an interview to come to America. I was so nervous I was sick to my stomach. At 8pm here (10 am in Vietnam) she had her interview and was going to call me one hour later to let me know how it went.

An hour passed by....no call....another hour....no call....another hour...I knew something was wrong....and finally she called sobbing and telling me she didn't pass.

I've been in shock since then. If I must, I'll move to Vietnam to be with her. So I contacted our immigration lawyer and it turns it's not as bad as I thought.

After her fiance interview failed, we were told to give them more evidence. This time I didn't want any mistakes so I printed out 4 years worth of emails, gave them copies of reciepts from money I sent her, I gave them photos of us travelling all over Vietnam, I gave them my tax returns, I gave them our wedding photos, marriage license, wedding video, phone bills, letters, etc.

The interview is only 30 minutes long. They sent my wife away and told her they needed more time to go through all the stuff we gave them. They gave my wife back the wedding photos, reciepts for money, and wedding video but kept the phone bills, the original copy of our marriage license, our travel photos, and all of the printed emails from the year 2001-2002 (pre-wedding)

They kept everything they could verify. I think this will turn out to be ok.

My wife told me there were 20 other couples and out of those 18 failed and only 20 passed. They are turning away record numbers of people. My wife and I are in limbo until they can go through everything. I don't know if this will take a week, a month, or a year.

I'm still very sad because I figured she'd be here in a week or two, but I suppose we could be one of the 18 couples who got all their stuff back and were turned down.