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< Back to current issue of Immigrant's Weekly Dear Editor, I am writing in response to Elisa Martinez' letter. Maybe not as advice, but as an empathetic listener, I too, was in your same situation. I am a US Citizen and upon marrying my husband we applied for permanent residency (he was undocumented at the time) and he had to return to his home country to wait for his Immigrant Visa appt. at the US Consulate there. When he left I was 4 months pregnant with our son. My husband had to stay for 2 weeks short of a year to get his Visa processed. He ended up having 2 appts. at the Consulate within that year. I visited him once when I was 7 months pregnant, but because I was working and of my health insurance here, I could not stay there with him. Our son was born here without my husband being present (despite letters I wrote to INS about the injustice of it) and my husband did not meet our son until he was 6 months old!!! It's heart-breaking, it's excruciating, but you learn to live day by day and when he does get here with his Visa, you'll appreciate him all the more and be glad that it was done before your child grows up (even though I know that's hard to hear now). Now my husband is here and was able to witness our daughter's birth and this really was a healing process for both of us. It will make you stronger, even though it's difficult now. Hang in there! Hispanic Ministry - Diocese of Joliet @ Catholic Charities Copyright © 1999-2002 American Immigration LLC, ILW.COM
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