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Comment on Citizenship of a baby born in a foreign country by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:21 +0000

I am very sorry for your hurtful situation. It is very disappointing but you can have a happy life. I can tell you are a good hearted person. As disappointing as it is I would focus on the child’s happiness. You are paying the price and there is not reason to have your energy drained by an energy vampire. You are pretty girl I am sure and have a wonderful daughter that needs you. Especially if you have any family in Eastern Europe this is important. If you come to the USA you will be alone. Money is not a factor here, only the love and stability the child will have.

I am sure he has wonderful qualities and good points. You would not have fallen in love with him but it is an old story. Many men want to play. I would not say he is worthy of your love.

I am a father. Being a father has little to do with the act of conceiving the child. It has to do with being with the child and mother of the child with a humble heart serving God by loving those who need you.

You should not give up on you faith and belief in God and ideals and goodness.

Will your guy find God and redeem himself? I do not know him but I doubt it, unless he is a true Christian. Unless he repents I would stay where you are and focus on raising your beautiful daughter. You might even find a wonderful man. People do not care that much these days if you have a child or not.

You should not compromise on your child – she needs one normal parent. You have to be strong for your child and yourself. Your child needs love and stability. The USA is a great experience but it just and experience and not on par with having an emotionally balanced child. That is what I think. What do you think about what I have written?

Comment on US spousal visa – how to get your wife or husband into the USA with a IR1 immigration visa and greencard by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:08:21 +0000

Unless there is a great rush to go to the US for some reason I think it is cleaner to do it all before you move. Once you are in the US there will be a readjustment and mental effort to get assimilated or readjusted, you want to focus on your new life not paperwork from government offices. So I think the income for a military worker retired might just be enough.

Comment on Citizenship of a baby born in a foreign country by Liliana

Liliana — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:12:39 +0000

Hello Marc, I need your advice in my situation knowing that you have international marriage so you might know how to handle this situation. I am from Eastern Europe and my husband is US citizen. We have a daughter that is dual citizen since she was born outside of US and got her citizenship trough her father. Now, our relationship has a lot of ups and downs mostly because I am in Europe and not allowed to go to states until my I-130 is approved. It is very difficult to handle situation when husband is not cooperating. He is cheating on me while I am not there. It hurts a lot because I am raising our daughter here while he is having fun in US. I told me I will divorce him and then he threatened me that he will get 50% of custody, and when he will take my daughter to US she will never like to come back to Europe. I wonder is there really for him a chance to get 50% custody when he is so far away? When she will go to school how she will go 6 month here and 6 months there? Besides he never send us money and does not support us here. Since day one our daughter was born I am the main provider, I have house and I am working. Besides what court should I go for divorce if I am not allowed to go to US and he will not come to Europe. He asked me 20 000$ to help him before our problems started and I gave him this amount of money. Now he tells me that if I want to see this money again I need to sign off my rights or sign 50% custody for him. He wants to trade our daughter on my own money. Of course I refused. I don’t need money! I need my daughter that I am raising. In 15 months he saw her just 2 times. I asked him to come to visit us for coming Christmas but he refused saying that he cant. It means that by Christmas it will be over year that he will not see his daughter. I don’t know what to do. I feel trapped. Our daughter does not even remembers her father because he prefers to spend week-ends with his lover rather spend time with us on Skype. I am sorry this is so long and all over the place. Please give me some advice where to start and how can I protect my daughter from life where she can see her father with different women every day and drinking parties. I spend all my free time with my daughter.
Thank you in advance,

Comment on US spousal visa – how to get your wife or husband into the USA with a IR1 immigration visa and greencard by Robert chambless

Robert chambless — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:29:02 +0000

I have read all the comments and suggestions on get your wife or husband to the US. Here is my situation, I have been married to my wife for 12 years and want to get here to the US. There were problems and our money situation that kept me from get here here. I am retired military drawing 2,000.00 per month. I am here in the Philippines with her now and have been here for going on 4 months I have extended my visa 2 times. My question is what would be the best way to get her to the states, I’ve read things about I-130s or take them on a different visa and file when we get there. I just don’t know what is best should i do the paperwork while I’m here or start it when we get to the US. Your info would be most appreciated. Thanks Robert

Comment on Buy an EU citizenship by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:17:01 +0000

Anything you do will be a long term process. I would focus on one country where I think it might be the easiest, and start to build a case. I would even live there legally and teach English with a language school for example or try to get a company to sponsor.

Comment on Buy an EU citizenship by Keys

Keys — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:30:23 +0000

Was wondering if there was anything in the field of caring that I could study in the UK that would fill a slot for a needed skill that would enable me to stay and become a resident.

I have studied IT in my home country (I hold a couple of Microsoft Certified qualifications),but can not obtain work nationally (non EU), and internationally I can not be employed without 2 years experience, and then I still have to convince a company to sponsor me to do so.

I have 5 different kinds of EU ancestry,but each is removed by 1 too many generations to obtain an EU passport.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Comment on The hardest language to learn by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:57:26 +0000

I do appreciate your comments even if I disagree with them. Languages are largely subjective in terms of what experience you are coming from.

Comment on The hardest language to learn by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:33:47 +0000

I delete your caps as it is not good form. We can agree to disagree, I would argue this all day, and no Asian languages are not that hard, the grammar is simple and tones are less complex. Writing is the only barrier but that is not speaking. OK So what makes you such an expert? How many language have you learned or have you taught at any University like I have? How many languages can you claim fluency in?

Comment on The hardest language to learn by Frank Wellbinder

Frank Wellbinder — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:30:53 +0000

Okay this has become a dull exercise in futility. YOU have taught kids in Poland, YOU have lived in Poland. Yep, I think we all get it now. Pure objective assessment. Regardless of all the great counterpoint brought up here. I wonder how many countries you have lived in and learned the language in order to make this grand pronouncement? I have lived in 4, and still don’t know (second) language is the hardest, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t – for English speakers – Arabic or Chinese or Korean due to the alien factor and the tones/cultural component. Polish isn’t even close.

No way Finnish, Basque, Twi with its glottal clicks, Icelandic, Estonian can be nearly as hard as the fabulously difficult Polish either, which Russians, Czechs and other Slavs can understand to a large degree without ever having studied it.

I wonder how they do that, since Polish is impossible to learn? And Polish has seven cases. Wow. In Icelandic there are 17 ways to say the numbers 1 through 4 and three different ways to say some first and last names. And Finnish has a purported 16 cases. How’s the old Polish stacking up now? Seven cases doesn’t seem too bad.

The final word, to repeat this ad nauseum, is that No (second) language is ‘the hardest’ per se, it all depends on what your first language is. You really need to stop defending your ego turf with Polish.

No more from me on this, it’s gotten too ridiculous.

And to answer your question on whether I’ve taught kids in Poland, no I haven’t, but I have taught in Iceland, the US, Germany and Brazil, and don’t claim to know it all.

Peace peaceniks

Comment on Citizenship by marriage by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:46:13 +0000

Me, I would go right for the greencard or the I-130. But it will take time. Lets say you have a month or so before he arrives and three months on his tourist Visa, that is cutting it close. but since you have a good job etc, I would march to the Department of Immigration and homeland security yesterday and get an informational interview, and start the ball rolling. He can not just come here and start working, no way. He has to jump through a lot of hoops bureaucratically so start moving on the I-130. If you have the cash you can get a lawyer and he can hold you hand with the process. I also have someone I can recommend he is a British judge and lawyer but moved to the USA and specializes in this, I think he charges a lot less. Let me know if you want his name.