I don’t know if you all knew that I was born and raised in Denmark!

I moved to Florida to go to college and then met a guy and you can guess the rest.

We got married after I graduated college, then some years later we moved to NC.

As a student I had a student visa which included a permit to work for a year after graduation, but then we got married and I started the Green Card process, which was not hard, we both got interviewed at the INS in Miami and lots of background checks and fingerprinting on me… The questions they asked were somewhat personal, but more to find out how we met and to make sure it wasn’t a fake marriage, they asked ME more personal questions about ME….

For years I kept my Greencard as I could do anything except vote and I didn’t really care until 2016! But I didn’t become a US citizen until 2017!

That process was a bit more involved and I had to go to get fingerprinted, background checked again, then study for the citizenship test, which you HAVE to know the answers to a possible 100 questions but they give you a pamphlet with the questions and answers and you can look up more about WHY those are the answers etc. Some are about Geography, some are about history and some are about how the government is set up, like the 3 branches of government and what they do, then you have to know names of your current president, VP, Governor and representative. Some of the Geography questions are super easy, like what’s the ocean to the East or to the West of the US or who’s our neighbors to the North or South…. also mention one native American tribe. The history is not that hard either but you do have to know some, like the Louisiana Purchase… If you’ve been here long enough and watched TV and follow the news it’s not that hard. I was asked 10 out of those 100 questions and had to get 6 right! (I got one wrong so she asked me the 7th question and I got it right)

You also have to prove you can read and white and speak English! We talked the whole time so that was not a problem and the reading and writing was SUPER SUPER easy!

My reading was “Who can vote”…. that’s it!! then I had to write “Citizens can vote” to prove I could write. EASY!!

then about 2 weeks later I was called in to the big ceremony and I cried the whole time!! Because I was waiting in line to go into the big hall and right in the middle of the hallway was a huge picture of the current president (in 2017!) and I was so happy to think that he was MY president now! If I mention his name this post will probably get flagged so I’ll leave it at that.

 

After the ceremony was over, I then got my new ID# and sent that to the US Passport dept and got my American passport a month or two later, and I used it a month after that in January to back to Denmark when my mom’s husband was dying and then two weeks later for his funeral!

 

I’m still a very proud American but I’m very sad about this country in the last few years, so many things I want to say about it, but it sure has changed since 27 years ago when I moved here!

 

Enough of that, let’s have a little celebration of this!

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