Does anyone else have the experience of being in a relationship where you’re from different countries but you met and started a life in a third? And then you tried to live in either of your home countries but your relationship somehow works better when you’re in a third country?
Or am I alone in this? It’s a very strange existence.
Who is forcing you to go back to America? wtf?
Well, I wouldn’t say being forced, but we’re having lack of options, for an American-iranian couple to live together and raise a baby together without a green card we’re basically limited to turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Thailand, Ecuador and american Samoa. Most of those aren’t for long term residency, most of those are for 4-6 weeks and then we’d have to move again to another country on this list and play round robin every 4-6 weeks country hopping. Our options are basically get a green card or I go to one country with our baby and she goes back to Iran, and she’s married a non-muslim American and had a baby with a non-muslim American, which is punishable by death in Iran. So…our choices are go to america or worry that my wife could be killed. No joke.
I assume in order to get permanent residency/citizenship for the one spouse, they have to be living in the U.S. for a few years (three to be exact) – hence being ‘forced’.
Yes, EXACTLY. Also, my family lives in Iowa and my wife’s family lives all over Europe (Iranians go everywhere that’s not Iran!) and we’d ideally like to go to Europe to live and raise our baby but since my wife is iranian right now America is the only choice we have. It’s not like most people on this subreddit that are from countries that u can easily get into this first world country or that first world country. My wife is iranian and it really limits our choices by immigration procedures and visas and openness to Iranians immigrating to these countries. Our options are quite limited, and so yes, being forced through lack of options to go places that are less than ideal