Survivor: The Sukwan Years

Since I mentioned my husband’s visa to the USA last time and got some great advice I will go into a bit more detail on that. Legal immigration to America is very confusing and for me difficult. People in Asia, the Middle East and Africa can’t exactly walk over the US border. They have to get on an airplane, which won’t let them on unless they have a visa.

That story goes like this: me and my husband legally married in November of 2019. I started work on his visa in January 2020. I went back and forth with a few lawyers and the US Embassy. They kicked my stuff back to file in the USA since I was US domiciled as Covid was ramping. Everything stopped for eight months of shutdown.

The I-130 (proof of relationship) was finally accepted after shutdown in late 2020. We waited too long after that it seems, because Thailand went Covid stupid again as I was filing the Civil documents and affidavit of support in May/June 2021. I filed my support documents from my 2019 taxes, which was allowed at the time. I didn’t want to file 2020 because I had to show a proof of being 125% above poverty level that I could not show in 2020 without the .gov help. The US Embassy stopped everything again, because Covid. They came back three months later, after the shutdown for stupid get jabs in everyone’s arms and ramp up fear campaign. Now they needed me to file my 2020 taxes. Oh, and my husband totally needed a Covid shot. science.

My husband’s civil documents have all been accepted, so he’s clear on police clearance, military, never married and no children before et cetera. I am the one who has the problem. My tax documents are not accepted. Actually they now say Not Uploaded. The IRs has this backlog, it Seems.

I have not filed 2021 because 2020 never even went through. The year 2021 is a total wash to $0, as best I can tell. I was in Thailand the whole year, and made very very little. I should not owe or receive. It looks terrible on my affidavit of support to say that, though. Only the house in Las Vegas holds it together at all.

My husband would also need to go through a medical check, which they always schedule near the time of interview. Of course this includes all vaccines, and I am still figuring out how to handle this. My husband Oh went through it in 2014. He was very chill with jabs at the time.

“No worries! Every time I stay in hospital they need me get new vaccine!” I remember him saying. He told me they gave him three at his medical check, one a huge size. Only two; TDAP and MMR, were mentioned in his record.

Oh suffered from what would soon later be diagnosed as IBS-D, gouty psoriasis, and acute necrotizing pancreatitis. None were tied as possibly related to the jabs except by me. He couldn’t work a regular schedule and suffered in pain.

My new husband Ka claims that he has never had a vaccine, ever. I can’t find evidence that he ever has had one. Oh had careful vaccine records that were ignored at his medical check. My new husband doesn’t want to deal with vaccines of any type. He has epilepsy, a seizure disorder where he drops to the ground and begins seizing up while foam comes from his mouth. It started from a head injury in a motorbike accident 20 years ago. It’s always grand mal and it hasn’t happened lately, in over a year. His brother’s death was tied to jabs and he wants nothing to do with them.

It’s a long story. But I am grateful to subtackers for literally keeping us fed. I mean literally. Money from my job did not ever come and my subscriptions came at a moment in time when they were most needed.

Shadow says thank you

I would like to leave the world better than I found it. I would love to take real world learnings from my experience to allow others to build on them. To quote Margaret Anna Alice, I am building my wings after being pushed off a cliff.

Thank you to all of you. God Bless.

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