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Published August 1, 2011

Back from Vacation

There have been few posts on this blog over the last week given that my wife and I were away on vacation.

Because I was applying for legal permanent resident status this year, we decided against international travel for our annual vacation, so we  first went to Pittsburgh, where I was asked to talk about impact evaluation and had to pick up  an award at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meetings. From Pittsburgh, we drove to Ithaca, where my wife and I met while we were in grad school, since it has been five years since we left. Here is proof that Ithaca is (still) gorges:

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Published July 21, 2011

Green Card Blues

Those who know me well know that I hate paperwork, filling out forms, and dealing with any kind of administration, and that I will only do these things when coerced. So when faced with the fact that my H-1B visa was going to expire at the end of July 2012, I finally decided to apply for legal permanent resident status (also known as the “green card”) in March.

I did so after nearly four years of post-marital procrastination. Indeed, spouses of American citizens have a much easier time when applying for legal permanent resident status. Since my wife is an American, I did not need to do much in order to get my green card save for gathering a number of identification documents and filling out a number of forms.

Last Friday, less than three and a half months later, I received my green card in the mail.

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