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In reply to the discussion: The NVC rejected my marriage certification. My wife's Green Card is dead [View all]DFW
(54,268 posts)My brother's wife is from Japan, and it took them some serious overcoming of bureaucracy to permit her to live with him in the USA. Not only did they have to get married, but because of his top security clearance, she had to renounce her Japanese citizenship and become American. Their sons have dual citizenship with Japan, even though their mother no longer has a Japanese passport. The main obstacle is to be permitted to live where you want. My brother's wife would have been OK staying in Japan, but preferred to come to the USA because in Japan in 1981, a female bank teller had zero prospects of getting a better job in a Japanese bank. Within 10 years of coming to the USA, my sister-in-law was vice-director of the World Bank in Washington (for Asia, of course). But the initlal process of getting her in with a residence permit wasn't easy, even back then.
These days, it seems the whole process is like a car tire trying to navigate a street full of nails and thumb tacks.