Our long distance journey is finally going to come to an end
on January 31st at 11:40am in Detroit Michigan! I’m so excited to finally
be with him in the same time zone I can’t even sleep at night now.
When I look back at the past 2 in a half years I just think
what an awesome plan God had for us because we have been through so much. We
have laughed, cried, been happy, been sad, fell in love, had misunderstandings
but through it all we stuck by each other’s side.
Soon I’m going to be Tom’s wife; I can’t even believe this
time has come! I never thought it would come to this actually; it was so hard
for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel some days. Now looking back I
can say that all the time and waiting was totally worth it and I wouldn’t do
anything different because every mistake we made with immigration taught us a
lesson.
My goal is to be able to help other people through this
process in any way that Tom and I can. Some people are not as fortune as we are
in being able to hire a lawyer plus pay all the fees that Immigration wants. If
him and I could alleviate some of those fees by someone not having to hire a
lawyer than I would know that this process and time it took would be all worth
it.
We started our process in the middle of 2011 as we gathered
all of our paperwork needed to submit to the USCIS. Then on January 20th
I took everything into our lawyers office, they looked over it, then needed
some other things and finally sent everything out in early February. The USCIS
accepted our paperwork on Feb 7th 2012 and our journey began. This is not the end of our journey at all, but
this has definitely put a big dent in our process and I am happy so far.
We are planning on being married on paper on Feb 2nd
by our pastor at our church, but before we get married Tom wants to take me out
on a proper date to the movies, out to eat and bowling or something. This is
how I know this man loves me because the little things like this are important
to him. I never even thought that we have actually never been on a “date”
together just him and I before. We have Skyped before and ate at the same time
but never in a restaurant just him and me talking alone!
We met in India in person for the first time on March 16th
2011 and now on March 16th 2013 we will have our wedding day in
front of friends and family. Even though we will be married actually on February
2nd I want our wedding date to be March 16th because we
are just getting married beforehand so we can get this process started a bit
earlier.
I really want to thank all of our friends and family who
have helped us get through this, there was many nights of crying with my
friends and not understanding why this is taking so long. Now looking back it
does seem like a distant memory and I think why was I crying? Why was I so upset?
And Tom would say to me “why are you crying? This is nothing to cry about you
big baby” (hehe) Now I see what he was
talking about because God bought us through this with flying colors and now
soon we will be together…
