Un-Naturalization Process

Annie left last night for U.S. to fulfill part 133 of step 356 in the manual called the United States Naturalization Process. It's quite an understatement when people say it is harder to become a U.S. citizen nowadays. In total I believe I have spent at least $30,000 USD in travel and application fees to get this far, and supposedly Annie has the easy route in becoming a U.S. citizen by marrying an already U.S. citizen and having an already U.S. citizen child. Unfortunately we did not compute how my ex-pat stay overseas would impact this process. From what I have learned so far is that if this is a normal situation in which I lived in U.S. and Annie and Mimi is living in U.S. it would not be too bad. However anything out of the ordinary such as the person applying for the Naturalization is living outside the U.S…..things get hard and complicated. In these situations no one understands the laws fully and there is no document or manual to tell you what to do. Luckily I think Annie and I are near the end of this process which we started 3 years ago. She left yesterday for biometric fingerprinting (her second) and will be back to Taiwan Saturday morning. She will spend a little of 44 hours in Boise and about that much in planes and airports. The next step will be the citizen interview/test which we will get an appointment after the fingerprinting. If Annie passes the test then she will finally get an unconditional green card which allows her to travel back and forth from America freely.

On the way to the airport I bet Annie $100 NT that Annie’s mom would cry even though she will only be gone 4 days total. Then I bet $50 NT that Annie would cry. Then $10 that Mimi would cry. Annie owes me $160 now.

Mimi cried a lot when Annie left. She said ‘Mama, mama’ over and over. It was very heart breaking.