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Faith Dwight

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Faith Dwight's parents knew she was a strange one when, at the age of five, she asked for "a book with no words." 21 years later, her heart still races at the sight of a blank page. After traveling the world for five years, she's decided (for now) to settle not-too-far from the tiny North Carolina t...

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He's comin' to America...

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Yahoo!  If you’ve been reading my blogs, or my editor’s letters, or just about anything I’ve written over the last four months, you’ll know that I’ve been pining away for my husband, who’s British and has been waiting for his VISA to come through.

Well, this morning, at long last, we finished the VISA process.  He had an interview at the US Embassy in London, was given “the golden handshake” (as he calls it), and was told that he’ll receive his Passport with VISA inside in about a week.   This means  that we’ll FINALLY be together, after  way, way, WAY too long of a wait, in about a week and a half. 

I’m pretty excited – I can’t wait to see him – and I’m trying to focus on that instead of the many disappointments and obstacles we’ve faced over the past four months.  I know that the immigration process has tightened since September 11, but this has been ridiculous!  In fact, the first three months weren’t even tight security, they were just the government being slooooooow.  Our application sat in someone’s file folder until the middle of April, and we sent it to them on January 21st.

When I moved to England after our wedding, my VISA process with the British Embassy took about 2 weeks. 

Anyway, I could go on, but I won’t.  Today, I’m just going to savor this Victory.

Finally, finally, finally...