In past jobs where I did this kind of work, we usually explained the whole conditional status thing to the applicant (and spouse, if they were present) and asked what their departure plans were and whether they’d want to hold off until they hit the two year mark. But usually that was if they were within a month or so,…

Your husband can contact the Consulate where he interviewed and ask to receive his visa immediately. Typically, waiting until the second anniversary for a couple, if it’s close to the interview date, is done as a courtesy to spare the couple having to get to the US and almost immediately apply to remove the…

For what it’s worth, I work in this field, and it’s extremely, extremely difficult to revoke U.S. citizenship. To the point that I’ve seen more cases where citizenship was fraudulently obtained and the citizen was allowed to retain their U.S. citizenship in spite of that (because the bar for revocation is so high)…

I’m a gay, Jewish lady, and I don’t mind saying that at this point, the prospect of the GOP randomly turning to Kasich, for instance, and installing him in Trump’s place is still preferable to what we’re getting.

I’m planning to write Susan Collins. I wrote her during the campaign after she denounced Trump’s comments about Judge Curiel; while she’s a Republican, she’s very much a moderate, and they’ve been calling her a RINO for years and years. The Senate is so close that it’ll only take a couple of Republicans to side with…

I’m drinking tonight and watching Law and Order: SVU because at least there when you grab a pussy you get your ass caught by Benson and Stabler.

Speaking as a Mainer, if it weren’t for the fact that at the end of the day, Collins is still signing on with the GOP and what they stand for, I’d vote for her. As it is, I think I’m going to sit down and write her a letter telling her that I respect the position she took with Trump during the campaign, and I really,…

I wonder if anyone’s told him yet that as long as he’s president, he has a legal requirement to release his tax returns. Whoopsie!

Oh, I’ve already got a mental list of friends and relatives who will not be inviting to my gay-ass wedding precisely because of this. It looks like the girlfriend and I are going to have a civil service ASAP, because we want to get her immigration paperwork started before they have a chance to try and repeal any of…

He... doesn’t look especially happy to have won. None of them do.

I was thinking as I read this that I found the author’s apparent lack of understanding of bisexuality generally and bisexual men in particular way more annoying than what was described of the game’s gender dynamics (although the decision to have all female pawns ready and willing to couple with other female pawns is…

Hahaha, holy shit. That rests my mind considerably. Thanks for mentioning that. Not to mention that national polls are irrelevant, really, since it’s the Electoral College that matters here.

I’m seeing that since J. Edgar Hoover, only one has made the full ten-year term, and that they can, in fact, be removed if they don’t resign, themselves. So, it sounds like there is very little chance he could make it far in a first term Clinton administration.

I read somewhere that his appointment lasts for ten years- if so, we’re stuck with him until 2023. Thanks, Obama.

In fairness, he can’t help his crazy dad (who I really do think fucked him up beyond hope). That being said, I’m never going to see another one of his movies or believe that he’s magically no longer an anti-Semite. Sorry, Mel.

He didn’t cheat on his wives or ignore his kids or cheat on his taxes (all of which Phil did).

I had a throw-down with a guy on my cousin’s Facebook page about this. First I asked him why he didn’t seem to give a shit about Anne Smedinghoff, who was killed by an IED right around the same time but hasn’t gotten jack in the way of congressional investigations or just attention for her sacrifice, and of course he…

I was in Girl Scouts through most of my childhood and adolescence, and I’m almost positive that there was a similar rule in place there. I remember my mother mentioning that we wouldn’t be able to go on some trip or other if another leader didn’t show. I’m also pretty sure that leaders were completely barred from…

I like Autostraddle, but I have noticed a real dearth of articles for/about butch women, especially lately. When I look at their archives, it seems like they did way more. It’s odd- on every article about femmes, the comments are full of discussion about femme erasure (which is real and exists, not saying otherwise),…

Oh my God, the pig bladder. You’re not really poor until you’ve gotten legitimately excited about playing with a pig bladder balloon.