Still processing to get Tino's status adjusted. If we had simply tied the not while I still had residence in Tanzania (which has become harder to get in the past year) he would already have a green card and driver's license. As it is, we have to spend $1,000 to change his status now, and it will take up to a year. That and he has to answer some very revealing questions about himself and his intentions in the states, such as the following.
Have you ever or do you intend to:
Knowingly commit any crime of moral turpitude?
Engage in drug trafficking?
Prostitution?
Polygamy? (just say no, Tino.)
Espionage? (some kind of reverse psycology?)
Genocide?
Did you, during the period from March 23, 1933 to May 8, 1945 associate with Nazis?
These are rather personal questions I think, and I am offended that the government meddle into our marital intentions this way.
Anyway, there may be some challenges (and some regrets I try not to focus on) but we are so extremely lucky to be together, that every single thing that Tino does for us is gigantic. He is champion of changing diapers, and soothes Elias daily with a bath. But he is mostly occupied with teaching Elias his first word: Daddy.
