Bruce Sterling requests assistance proving the validity of his marriage

http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/bruce-sterling.html

by haasted • 17 years ago

38 13 17 years ago

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Log into your Flickr account or your "My Pictures" and produce printed copies of the hundreds of digital photos you took together. That is a solid place to start.

mahmud• 17 years ago

Jasmina Tešanović is no goddman mail-order bride. On her own, without a USian hubby, Tešanović is exactly the sort of person any healthy democratic society needs and we should welcome her with open arms. Of course, I wouldn't put it past Uncle Sam for targeting her because of her activism. Warlords have their kids and trophy wives here, naturalized and all.

thras• 17 years ago

I think that they should each use their private SSL keys to double-sign a document stating that they're married.

jerf• 17 years ago

Wrong Bruce.

abstractbill• 17 years ago

The INS is despicable. I hope I never have to deal with them again.

elai• 17 years ago

Immigration & Customs in almost all countries tend to be despicable in general. It's harder to get accountability from them, since the people they lord over tend to have no voting powers.

oyving• 17 years ago

But they are also a very easy target. Immigration services do a job that is never going to be popular, but in the end their actions and decisions are mandated by a political leadership.

It's too easy to single out these agencies in a hatefest.

patrickg-zill• 17 years ago

If you are dealing with the INS, chances are you are not a citizen. Therefore, congressmen and senators are much less likely to be concerned about your welfare.

dinkumthinkum• 17 years ago

Doesn't the US government have more important matters to deal with? The US is one of those most xenophobic first world Western nations I know of.

rs• 17 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking! Why in the world are they spending tax payers money on 2 seemingly do-good-ers when there's a plethora of really important stuff out there to fix ?

BTW, I'm not in the US, am in the UK at the moment, and even here, the same bloody nonsense happens. Government spend scarce resource on really minor matters

kingkongrevenge• 17 years ago

> The US is one of those most xenophobic first world Western nations I know of

Are you fucking kidding me? You have national front and neo-nazis sitting in european parliaments and councils.

Bruce Sterling requests assistance proving the validity of his marriage

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