tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61574192024-11-01T01:35:52.965-05:00Ok so this is my blog. I've been trying to keep it up as often as I can.. Sometimes you have something to write about and sometimes you don't. So now and again, if I remember it, I will write about it. That's my pledge :)Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-56508225940650538672010-12-16T22:56:00.002-06:002010-12-16T23:36:25.461-06:00

I don't understand how someone is who currently unemployed (uh me) does not have time to post on this blog. And when I do have some time its when I'm back in Chicago visiting. Regardless, we're about to end this year I will realistically say it will not be my 2011 New Year's resolution to post daily to this blog. It is my hope by saying that I will do the opposite :) I think if I schedule it

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-6359927150115935802010-04-09T22:28:00.003-05:002010-04-09T23:01:34.481-05:00

Mentally I tried to prepare myself and Aaron for our inevitable return back home. Spending two weeks with my family is always a lot of fun and sometimes boring. I debated whether or not to write that last part because I know my mom will eventually read it. Hey she (and many others) complain that I never post here so might as well tell the truth. Ha! Ha! The day before I'm supposed to fly

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-3370201926509654762010-03-22T21:18:00.003-05:002010-03-22T22:16:32.310-05:00

Wow its been a really long time since my last post and ironic that when I do find time to post is when I'm not in Mexico. So where to start!? I did the math and realized that I have been living in Mexico for about 6 months now. Mexico has so many perks and some irks. PerkFirst the area we live is very relaxing. I've always appreciated when you run into the neighbors everyone says "Good

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-87638015022495965982009-09-27T10:54:00.003-05:002009-09-27T11:37:28.120-05:00

I can't believe I've been here one week already. I'm far from being moved in. Tomorrow and Tuesday are big move days for the Bohorquez house. I'll try to be brief! The day I arrived I accidentally drove straight into downtown Tijuana. Honestly after being used to the sights, sounds and smells of Ciudad Juarez and Mexico City .... Tijuana is pretty nice! They definitely cater to the American

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-86040344641745630732009-09-05T09:13:00.002-05:002009-09-05T09:47:21.800-05:00

Some of you know what's the story with Eduardo immigration case. For those of you that don't here's what happened. My husband arrived in Chicago (illegally) sometime in the early 90's. During which time he didn't live a good moral life. Others have said he was being young and stupid. So in the end he has a criminal past and associated with the wrong crowd which has haunted him until this

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-64549477669319347412009-04-13T16:45:00.002-05:002009-04-13T16:53:46.279-05:00

Last week, after months of daily harassment from our son, we decided to take a quick trip to Mexico City to visit Eduardo. I was diligently searching Expedia, Mexicana and Travelocity websites for flights deals because the prices were around $350 for each of us. After taxes it was nearly $1,000 for 2 round trip tickets. On top of that it was Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Mexico. Way too

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-65128216463209550572009-03-16T16:30:00.002-05:002009-03-16T16:35:19.217-05:00

Omg this morning was the worst morning… first I wake up an hour late, missed my regular bus, forgot my laptop, cell and iPod at home. Then while I’m waiting for the bus I realize I forgot my wallet. So I started praying that someone from work would be riding the bus… nope. So I thought I just couldn’t ask these Complete strangers for money, so I started asking everyone if I could borrow a cell

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-83020950272365250772009-03-11T10:05:00.000-05:002009-03-11T10:06:04.875-05:00

Ok,Here’s what you should know. The State Department (Homeland Security) made the final decision to deny my Eduardo the chance to file the pardon. The American Consulate in Mexico agreed with the State Department and the process was over for us.We started working with a group called Westside Minister’s Coalition (WMC) and they in turned had us work with Senator Roland Burris. Well you know

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-24227170323589482072008-11-24T09:38:00.002-06:002008-11-24T10:12:49.380-06:00

So its about time for an update. So many things have happened since my last post I know many of you are anxious for one. Let's start with the most important (and obviously the point of this blog)EduardoAs most of you know Eduardo had a appointment in October and now the consulate said that all they knew about my husband was his past. Based on their findings my husband was associated with the

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-27479899180712941722008-09-20T19:45:00.002-05:002008-09-20T20:04:35.338-05:00

I want to say it was a complete shock. Instead I was rather shocked who was let go. I started to worry and think about the situation my friends are currently in. I work in Architecture our work is based a lot on the current housing market. As I'm sure as you're aware if there's no need to build we won't. Our clients might find it difficult to obtain the necessary loan in order to construct.

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-43486115944748902732008-09-11T13:23:00.004-05:002008-09-11T13:40:22.195-05:00

I've decided to start carrying a notebook around with me. No not a huge notebook just something small to write my random things. Whether I'm on the bus or walking outside my mind is working overtime. I especially enjoy the moments when I think about all the things I can write about on my blog. As you can tell I haven't posted a single one of them. Ok I'll get the notebook and post more often

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-18623635885918999462008-08-28T08:02:00.013-05:002008-08-28T13:31:04.683-05:00

We left Chicago around 6 am and had a connection in Dallas/Fort Worth. When I looked at my itinerary I saw we had about an hour and a half before we had to change planes. Little did I know that an hour and a half wouldn't be that much time on the return. No problems while we were flying and we landed in Mexico City around 3:00 pm. One thing I don't understand, when going through Customs at

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-48988952470613189212008-08-22T12:12:00.002-05:002008-08-22T12:14:29.437-05:00

Saturday Aaron and I headed to Mexico City to visit Eduardo again. At this moment (from an immigration standpoint) we've done the following. We had the possession of cannabis charge changed do show that the case is officially closed. I have some doubts because when I first saw a copy of the disposition I noticed that the "possession of cannabis" was not written out at all. Instead there was

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-79125173762617341942008-08-08T16:27:00.003-05:002008-08-08T16:34:56.131-05:00

How do you explain to 6-year-old why kids exclude him from playing with them? It burns me to no end when children to it. There's no real logic trying to figure this out yet it happens. Can kids be that malicious towards one another? This I can expect from random kids you don't know but this happens within my own family too. Terrible huh? As much as I want to say to my son "nope you're not

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-43252768393796882572008-08-05T09:47:00.002-05:002008-08-05T19:55:45.166-05:00

Ever since we moved from Marengo, IL I've never experience such drastic weather here in the city. Last night Aaron and I went to the library to return a museum pass I got last Saturday. So we stayed there for a bit before heading home. Thank God we made it home before the storm hit. Here's another reason why I enjoying renting a basement apartment. That's the first place you need to go in

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-89938725278583858382008-08-04T09:16:00.002-05:002008-08-04T09:29:51.089-05:00

Well I took out a loan on my 401k versus cashing it out to pay for the immigration stuff, lawyers etc. Anyway the payments were going to be deducted automatically from my paycheck starting at the end of June. But I noticed it hadn't happened. When I questioned the finance person about it he said that it wasn't going to happen right away but soon... ok no biggie...When I called him on it again

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-69210412740839361872008-08-01T12:27:00.001-05:002008-08-01T12:28:20.585-05:00

After a few days of waiting I finally got the new court disposition I needed from the Chicago Clerk's office. After reviewing it (with my limited knowledge of criminal law) I can see that the possession of cannabis has been completely removed from the court record. That's really huge! So I've emailed that over to my immigration attorney Laurel. Right now the next steps is to get that new

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-22214314591867557652008-07-28T15:47:00.002-05:002008-07-28T15:55:48.754-05:00

Today has been a solemn day for me. Not many of you know but in December 2007 I had suffered miscarriage. And today marks the due date of our baby. I do feel sad of what could have been, but at the same time happy because I was at least able to cherish the small time I had with my with baby. I'll never understand the reasons for it happening but I'm grateful that the Lord allowed me to the

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-34466553450187174862008-07-25T09:31:00.001-05:002008-07-25T09:35:11.214-05:00

Wednesday morning I went to court for my husband possession of cannabis case and praise God we got it vacated... actually BETTER then vacated. The judged order it to be "annale"? I probably spelled it wrong, but its a Latin term that basically the case is abandoned.The judge couldn't understand why CDJ was being difficult about this case. And my criminal attorney explained to the Judge that if we

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-43957313987762748352008-07-15T19:29:00.003-05:002008-07-15T19:44:00.435-05:00

Ok, as you know last Friday I went to the City Clerk's office to get a new court disposition for Eduardo's 93 case of poss. of cannabis. At this time the consulate has said that what we gave them indicates that the case is still open. However, its not. At the recommendation of the Clerk's office I had to ask to call the file back from the "warehouse" and I would present myself with Leo (our

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-30987635979781897022008-07-11T15:45:00.002-05:002008-07-11T15:58:47.375-05:00

It's been a whirlwind kind of week. Here's what's going on now. We still have the gang problem and now according to the immigration officer there is a 1993 possession of cannabis case that the Officer seems to believe is still open. When you look at the court disposition it says "Bond Forf - SOL". I got a letter from the Chicago City Clerk's office that gives an explanation of that acronym "

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-79100644437644567082008-07-09T13:26:00.002-05:002008-07-09T13:32:36.532-05:00

They are still trying to see if my husband is eligible for the I-601 (the pardon). Here's one of the problems. On one police report it says that my husband said he was a part of the Latin Kings. My husband denied it and said that when he was arrested there were two other guys that were part of the Latin Kings but he was not. There are no other court dispositions or police reports that state my

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-31246293278563838892008-07-06T19:45:00.002-05:002008-07-06T19:50:01.677-05:00

So by some fluke I didn't get the DS-230 (the Beast of all forms) or the I-864 (the form that says I will support Eduardo .... $$$... for 10 years!) done and mailed off with enough time.Anyway. In the past I sent immigration stuff to my cousin Sandra in El Paso (FedEx, Overnight ... even Saturday delivery). However on Thursday, when I tried to prepare the FedEx label it tells me Saturday delivery

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-87828698991701070402008-07-03T11:47:00.000-05:002008-07-03T11:48:03.130-05:00

As some of you know Eduardo's first appointment is Tuesday, July 8. He arrived in C. Juarez yesterday afternoon. His medical exam was today. He just called and said the medical exam went fine (had to get one vaccination = $210) and now he's off to see the Psychologist. (When you admit to drug use you are automatically sent there). I reminded Eduardo to EMPHASIZE the fact that he has been

Bridgethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207969025672530619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157419.post-58589228355275878122008-06-30T14:26:00.001-05:002008-06-30T14:38:11.492-05:00

After many days (months maybe?) without any updates from the Bohorquez family you must be suffering. :)Throughout my month(s) of absence here's what's happened. As you know on April 25 Eduardo was denied his visa. To sum it up I didn't prove enough "extreme" hardship if I had to move to Mexico and Eduardo colorful criminal past. So the day I got the noticed I emailed, faxed and mailed requests

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