JS>Unfortunately, Dave, there are those who become citizens not because
JS>want to be Americans, but because it allows them to petition for the
JS>remainder of their family that is back home.
 
MA>       John I read carefully your posting and the impression given is
MA>that when someone obtains citizenship this immediately means that all
MA>sorts of family members will almost immediately arrive with visas.  We
MA>both know this is an inaccurate impression.
Mike:
If you truly read my posting, you saw that this mass migration 
took a period of years and that I specifically said that there
are SOME countries in which 4th preference visas are no longer
available because the backlog is so great that a petition filed
today won't have a visa availability number in anyone's lifetime.
I specifically took pains to mention several times that chain
migration occurs over a period of years and not an instant 
process. 
As for your wife and you going through the "maze" at INS, you
and I, and everyone else should know, that there is a certain
amount of "bureaucratic lag time" ie. processing time. 
However, once again, I took specific pains to make the distinction
between Non Preference categories in which I stated a visa was
"immediately" available but that there was processing time involved.
The context it was given was that in comparrison to preference visas,
non preference visas were relatively quick in processing and that there
was no numerical limitation. 
John , jnsampson@ibm.net 
 "To find reasonable doubt, one must first be capable of reason."
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