Thursday, March 30, 2006
Notice of Action
There is fresh news today about mine and Nian's plans for the future. First, our second "Notice of Action" came in the mail yesterday, the one for Nian's K3 Visa. According to the website we should expect a 60-90 period before it is processed. I had taken this to mean Nian would likely get her visa in about 3 months. She feels it will be at least seven months based on the experiences of others who post to a forum about Chinese/US immigration.
I had promised her if she wasn't here by August when my lease runs out, I would find some job overseas where we could be together for six months or so while we await her Visa to be issued (she can get non-US visas much more easily). These things are hard to time however, so we agreed I should start looking now. I polished up my Resume today in anticipation of sending it to a job prospect in South Korea; an SAIC job opening so I wouldn't have to worry about various 401K and insurance matters. I discussed things with my immediate manager and he felt a departure from the DEMACO/SAIC office could be accommodated for upto a year without great difficulty. So off into the internet ether went my resume. The automated response indicated I should get an answer or at least some kind of additional inquiry request within two weeks. I placed my availability at May 1st, 2006, so maybe Nian and I will be together much sooner than we originally planned.
Nian hooked up a new webcam to her computer back in Guangzhou. I was really surprised how crisp the picture looked. We evidently had a good connection last night as the images updated very quickly also. I will find some way to take a screen snapshot of our next video chat session. It had been a long time since I had last seen her face live, as her old camera had become balky and hard to use. I was surprised how emotional it made me to see her live, since we talk for about 2 hours almost every night, and had exchanged some pictures in the last couple of months, but her face held an angelic quality when it popped into view that is hard to describe, and something about the way her hair fell about her shoulders made her look like a teenager. How I deserve such a wife is beyond me -- should the South Korean job materialize, taking it would be one small step towards being worthy.
