Originally Posted by meauxna

It's also an opportunity for dense legal lingo to be translated into words that actually mean something to people.

Originally Posted by Michelmas

Dictionary!!!!

Originally Posted by Folinskyinla

I will confess to a particular fondness of a statement from a Court of Appeals some years back: "We enter the never never land of the Immigration and Nationality Act where plain words don't always mean what they say."

Originally Posted by ian-mstm

Actually, you can thank Rete for that. She was instrumental in getting the Usenet newsgroup alt.visa.us.marriage-based started... the newsgroup that was eventually ported to BE as this forum. Mind you, that was a while ago... when information was *not* "freely available elsewhere".

Ian