Musing on marriage & immigration

My favorite wedding blog is apracticalwedding.com because it focuses more on sanity than on cute diy details....as well as focusing on the marriage that comes after the wedding day. Today, there's a post about the intersection of immigration and marriage and proving to big, faceless government bodies that you're in love. I thought it was something a lot of us here can relate to...

http://apracticalwedding.com/2011/04/reclaiming-wife-on-faith-and-proof/

what a great article to point out the struggles that a lot of us here deal with.

I get excited at every piece of mail that's addressed to both me and DB. Real. Legal. Proof. But at the same time, I also hate the fact that I purposely have to gather up these things as "evidence" to prove our relationship to the government.

But it's what we have to do to stay together, so it's not that big a deal. Someday we'll be past the paperwork, right??

The US is a bit more intrusive, on average, I gather. Also, they are almost always automatically suspicious when the couple isn't of the same race. It looks like the couple from the article isn't (judging by their Wedding Graduate post, linked there). Also, they eloped, which I think could count against them as far the US government is concerned. It just all adds so much extra stress.