The K1 Experience

Well, this is not particularly immigration related but it has turned into one of those experiences that have been a royal pain. Suzie, like so many folks living in large metropolitan cities had little need of a car so she had never bothered to get licensed to drive in the UK. Living in a small almost rural US City it is almost a necessity to have your license to drive. So... here is what we went through starting with a couple of months after we got married and she got in the country. First we had to get her a learners permit. Study Study Study, take the online exam multiple times until she has it down so we take the time. Then after digging extensively through the website looking for any gotchas for non-citizens and not finding any we head down to the local DMV for her to take her written test. We walk in the door and in sun faded coffee stained glory that looks like it has been there so long they built the building around it is a notice stating that non-citizens can only go to a singl...

As anyone who goes through it knows the immigration process is nothing if not SLLLOOOOWWWW. The goal of this blog has been to document our experiences as we encounter them. We have been enjoying our current period of almost no paperwork while anticipating the next big step. Removing the temporary status from Suzie's Permanent Resident card. Just wanted to let anyone following us through the process know that this blog has not been forgotten and will pick back up in a couple of months as we get closer to the time we have to sumbit our next round of paper work. In the meantime happy New Year to everyone, I hope 2008 is a good year for you. Short of going down the road to citizenship this year should mark the completion of Suzie's process of immigration paper work.