From: engelsma@borzoi.cps.msu.edu (Jonathan Engelsma (Reid))
Subject: Re: Info on Green Card...please
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:26:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.145411.16527@newshub.sdsu.edu>, young@saturn.sdsu.edu (Alan Young) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct9.133223.10571@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> engelsma@golden.cps.msu.edu (Jonathan Engelsma (Reid)) writes:
|> >In article <1as4pmINN7bq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:
|> >|> 
|> >|> In a previous article, ramas@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (R. Ramasubramanian) says:
|> >|> 
|> >|> >A friend of mine is working in an US company. She intends to get married between
|> >|> >Dec 92 and Mar 93. She however plans to request her employer to start the 
|> >|> >processing for her green card by NOV/DEC 92. Some info required on :
|> >|> >    1. Is it ok to start the green card procedure before she gets married, as
|> >|> >       she obviously wants to have her (would be) husband's name into the 
|> >|> >       records
|> >|> yes, it is ok to start the green card process before she gets married.
|> >|> 
|> >
|> >We went to an immigration lawyer a while back, who told us we could not
|> >start the green card process before we were married.  We took his advice
|> >and waited.  Perhaps he was wrong?  It would be nice if INS would publish
|> >brochures giving the facts, on different immigration situations.   
|> >
|> >Does anybody from INS read this newsgroup?
|> >
|> >Jonathan
|> 
|> Why not go to the source? Go to the INS office nearest you and ask the
|> information officer. They're not bad people and it's not like they're going
|> to keep tabs on you since "they now know you want to immigrate".
|> This is really what should be the done all the time. You only want to go to
|> a lawyer when the officer recommends that you do, ie: when the process is
|> involved and so on and so forth.
|> -- 
|> Alan B. Young		       |
|> Graduate Teaching Associate    |
|> San Diego State University     |
|> Internet: young@saturn.sdsu.edu|


When is the last time you went to visit an INS office?  Its not as easy
as you make it out to be.   The lines are usually quite long (at least
the times I've been there) and the people working there are rarely friendly
and helpful.  Furthermore, I've witnessed and heard of situation where
INS says do "this" and when you do "this" they say the next week you should
of did "that".    There is no possible way to call and ask questions by
phone, at least at the office closest to us.  You can leave a message, but
they never call back (thats what we experienced.)

I realize that the US cannot open its doors and let anybody come in at
will, but many of us Americans were taught the words on the statue of
liberty..."give us your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath
free...".   While its not possible for INS to carry that out literally,
the persons working with INS could at the very least work in that spirit.
ie. replace the rudeness and impatience, with compassion and patience.  
Not all the people working at INS are rude and unhelpful.   On our last
visit the officer we dealt with was very kind.  However, I'm afraid such
people are rarely encountered at INS.
 

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