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

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I just had to write a letter to the INS testifying why I KNOW the marriage of one of my oldest friends to his Haitian wife is a genuine marriage. It infuriated me that I had to do this -- that THEY have to do this, go begging to their friends to witness that they have a 'real' marriage. Especially when I have witnessed so many 'real' marriages that are no marriages at all.

Can't help Bruce though as I haven't seen him the flesh either lo these many years.

Love, C.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I do feel I should add re the speculation that Bruce and his wife didn't play by INS rules and should have known better -- um, my friends, who I wrote a letter for? They obeyed all the rules to the letter, and then the INS suddenly determined there was another rule which they hadn't bothered to inform anyone of, as to how, in the letters already written by friends, the Haitian wife's name was to be written out!

The rules are all subject to the individual whims of the staff of the local INS agency you are dealing with.

Love, C.

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

This is so true.