Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic Request Your Moral Support

[ellen_datlow]

This one of the dumbest things our government has tried to do yet:

The "Exotic Enemies Do Get Married" Campaign


I've never actually seen the couple together (in fact, I hardly ever see Bruce at all these days) so I can't help, other than to spread the word to those who have met them. For anyone reading this who has met them as a couple, please write a letter as per the plea and send it on to them to use for immigration.
You'll be doing a good deed and it costs you nothing but time.

Comments

[n5red.livejournal.com]

http://unless-spring.livejournal.com/171688.html

I will also comment that I knew Bruce before he became so famous. Fame has certainly gone to his head, the last few times I've seen him, he has not been nearly as nice to be around. Such is life.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I've found him the same as he's always been when I see him. Sorry to hear your experience is different. But that's really irrelevant to the problem he and Jasmina are having.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Actually, it is relevant. Being so famous may have given him an exaggerated sense of entitlement. INS rules really are well known and ignoring them can cause exactly this sort of issue. Over the past couple of decades I have corresponded with a number of folks who have gone through this process. Sometimes it goes extremely smoothly, particularly if the couple are very well prepared. Sometimes it doesn't go well. And sometimes the paperwork gets lost (oops!).

Yeah, INS rules are probably unfair a lot of the time, but they are the folks in control.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Or he and his wife don't see any reason for them to buy a house together, have a joint bank account, etc. It's an imposition on them by the government (any government) to be required to do such things.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I don't see it as a sense of "entitlement" but a basic citizen's right. There are plenty of other ways to "prove" a marriage.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not fair, but that's the way the INS works. For her to get American citizenship, certain hoops must be jumped through. They can both continue with their respective citizenships or they can follow the process. American citizenship is considered a privilege. And there have been enough "Green Card marriages" that the INS has put the current rules in place.

I've looked at a lot of immigration and emigration issues over the years, many of them are quite an imposition.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I don't believe she wants American citizenship. She merely wants to be able to travel back and forth with her husband.