It's amazing how much people take their freedom for granted. As you can tell, the meeting with the lawyer did not go well this morning. First of all, it was a chore trying to navigate around downtown Tampa and the multitude of parking garages. Here is the gist of what I was told, try to follow as it does get confusing:

*I WAS chosen for the DVS lottery with no guarantee I would get a green card. My case number is 6693 which is a good number considering they picked over 100,000 people for 55,000 visas (they always choose over the amount because over half the applicants don;t meet the standards or neglect to apply) Now here is where it gets fucked.

*The lottery allocation is broken down into like 6 area-specific categories with the elgible countries (or states). I charged my lottery through my country of birth, Kuwait, which is under the Asia category which has 30 "states" in it.

*Each category is alloteed a percentage of the visas, and each state is allow up to 7% of the viasa (3500 people). The highest amounts always go the lower-economic countries...Kuwait not being one of them, however, they always have a LOW number of people apply. So chances are good.

*HOWEVER, for the first round, the number only went up to 1180 fore the Asia category. Which means my number has not come up. It may go up higher the next month or not at all. Since my number is so high for that certain category, a lot of those people have ot fail the criteria or fail to apply which will help my case.

*Now here's the rub, by Sept. 2002, you have to have a green card already in your hand in order to meet the DVS rules. It takes six months to process an application. This means that March is my last month. Which means that that 1180 number needs to get to 6692 or higher by then so I can apply. I can;t petition. Can't ask for forgiveness. It;s a lottery plain and simple.

*Now, what is even more screwy is that if the lower-economic countries are running out of visas, they will move quotas from the other countries to the lower ones, thereby reducing the number and chances even more for other countries to get the visas.

*This is truly going to be a game of chance for me to win. and I REALLY hope I do. I just have to hope that the number jump from Oc.t to Nov. is high enough to guarantee that the 6000 mark will be hit before March. Of course, that is assuming that more than 6700 visas were issued to the Asia category, keping in mind that poorer countries get the most visas.

So there you are...more slipshod red tape schemes at work. Sometimes I wonder what is better and what is worse. JUST GIMME A FREAKIN GREEN CARD!

The whole car situation with my mother is a nightmare. She doesn;t seem to understand some common sense things such as you can;t wait to buy a car that you find hoping that no one else will. I am actually not into this to get a new car and drive around in it (altho it will be used). I am trying ot make the payments lower for both of us, and if I have that chance now, then...hello???????

I am pretty much assuming that I did not get cast in Little Shop, did not hear anything yet. Altho, I ma happy that they loved my audition. They were really into it. Well, my goal is to be seen this year, not necc. to be cast, so we shall see. The childrens; theatre that I had to turn down told me that I can highly recommended from several people. This was shocking of course because not many, if any, people on that level of theatre know me. I need all this.

Alright, I am going to wallow in my Pier 1 import buys and feel sorry for myself.

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