Moving to the USA // GOOD NEWS!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- We started the application for my Vietnamese wife's green card in January 2023. It took 1 year for USCIS to process her I130 and we just got an update with the next big part of her green card application.
It's almost time for us to finally move to the USA.
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When we moved my wife from Japan to USA the green card interview was very easy because we had many photos and stories of traveling together. They only asked basic questions about family and trips we went on together. The interviewer said it was obvious we knew each other, I guess the scammers they are trying to filter out make it very obvious they don't know each other. With a photo album and years of youtube uploads like this, I would expect your interview to be very fast and easy.
Yeah, we're hoping it shouldn't be a problem considering the hours of videos we filmed together 😂
Just cross the border, no need for documentation anymore...
@@TwoWheelCruisecan i join you. I also like green card
My wife is Japanese, but was already in the US attending grad school where we met. Her/our interview was easy as well. It's been nearly 20 years but what I remember was that they wanted to make sure our marriage wasn't a sham. That was easy enough to prove.
Wonderful to hear a positive update.
Good luck to you guys, been watching since the "Japan" days. I'm always amazed what people need to go through just to be together with your wife in your own country. It sounds like you guys are very patient, more so than me when my wife went through this process about 25 years ago. All the best!
Thank you!
Congrats guys! I've been following you guys since you were still in Japan! Now onto a different continent altogether, will still be following you! Gambate!
Awesome! Thank you!
Congratulations guys. Brought my wife in the US back in 2020. Its all worth it 👌
Good luck guys❤️
Thanks!
Good news indeed! As a bike tourer, I'm really looking forward your next postings. I can tell you come from a racing background when you talk about bike weight and efficient riding positions as I pedal around on my 30 lb steel frame bike and look for the most upright position to comfortably watch the scenery go by :) Enjoy your tour!!! I've always liked hearing your perspective on living and biking in Japan/Thailand/Vietnam so it will be really cool to flip the script a little bit and hear Thuong's perspective of living and biking in Michigan.
No traffic lights in Dalat, enjoy!
I've done the drive myself from Danang to Dalat on motorbike. I'd say avoid the costal highway (insane truck drivers) and go through the middle of the country and PLEIKO.
I lived there throughout the early pandemic in Dalat, Langbiang. Much nicer weather this time of year, very cool weather.
I miss Kem Bo!
August 14th 1997. I still remember the day of my wifes interview in the Philippines. At least you two have been together while waiting ! Back then it took 9 months or so. The interview is mostly a formality, nothing to worry about. Good luck to you both.
I wish you all the best for your next adventure together and will be looking forward to some U.S inspired cycling videos from Two Wheel Cruise.
Congratulations! Glad to see you are making progress with the move to the US. I’m looking forward to watching your bike packing adventure!
Wishing you guys all the best for a speedy and successful conclusion for your move to the US 👍
Im going to miss the vietnam rides but im super happy for you guys
Hopefully we'll be back in winter :)
@@TwoWheelCruise I was going to say, Thuong will change her tune fast come November and you'll be looking for a more southerly summer home or at least getaway - perhaps in the desert Southwest where I live or our playground, San Diego! As a viewer, I have mixed feelings about your move as your Japan, Thailand and Vietnam adventures and perspectives have been so enjoyable vicariously! But, as someone else noted, it will also be especially interesting Thuong's observations and thoughts when you guys complete your move. Unless you've done a video on it already, it would be great to also hear her "pre" thoughts about coming to the US.
1:05 the bridge looks awesome!
So happy for you!
Good luck, that folder looks a lot like a Brompton
Amazing guys, can't wait to see you both biking in the States!
Nice update and congrats on clearing the first portion. Wish both of you smooth sailing !
Good to hear - congrats, guys!
Thanks!
Omg .. planning to move to vietnam from Michigan..too cold and expensive here lol
Great Love Story, just goes to show, you never no when or where your going to meet the love of your life, all the best for the future, JC.
Thank you!
Best wishes, Happy for you guys to be able to have a more permanent abode.
Thank you!
Excited for you guys!
My sister has been "documentarily accepted" for literally 2.5 years. We get an email update (same form letter) every 6 months telling us everything's been completed and they are just waiting for the interview to get scheduled. But also a warning not to make major decisions pertaining to the migration. The hold up is usually at the local embassy - Has nothing to do with petition approval - it's more of local government bureaucracy/red tape. Since Covid, local embassies have been backed up processing visas and interviews, so NVC is unable to schedule interviews quickly. I hope you've got better luck in Vietnam to get that interview scheduled.
Hell yeah! Nice progress update 👏🏼
God speed and all the very best to both of your future endeavors.
Great to see you! I have missed your rides!
I'm so pleased that most of the green card application has been dealt with and it just the interview where they require the verbal confirmation what was submitted in the documents.
Exciting times ahead for the pair of you. 👍🏻
So happy for you both!
Looking forward to your touring videos. Thanks for Update.
Another adventure good for you all ❤
Congrats on the good news! For Cruise, welcome home!! And for Thuong, welcome to the US!! We’ll be all the richer for having you both here in the US. You both bring a broad understanding of the international community and show a great openness to sharing your experiences as well as learning new things. We can use a lot more of that!! All the best on this new chapter in your journey!!!
Thanks so much! 😊
Congrats dude, hope everything proceeds smoothly
Good luck to both of you 🙏 congratulations in advance 🎉
Very exciting for you guys
Great to hear! Hope she makes it to Michigan soon.
Best of luck with the green card. Sounds like your done with DaNang. I’m planning on a tip to DaNang in April or May, I’m use to the heat as I live in Naples FL. and do a lot of biking on my Trek FX 3.
Thanks! We'll hopefully visit DN again in the future. It's a fun place to be.
My word, they are taking their own sweet time to garant that visa, it is border line ridiculous ! I am glad you will be able to live in your own home within reach of family support.
As for your last rides in Vietnam , feel free to make your own choices and make the most of the few weeks you have got left. We will always enjoy whatever you decide to film !
On a less pleasant note, I have had all 4 wisdom teeth extracted and it was a highly fargettable experience to say the least ! Good luck with that, Thuong..
Yeah, it really does take too long :(
The process continues if she keeps her green card and keeps her Vietnamese citizenship. I did my wife's 10 year renewal in 2016 and it was 800.00, plus doing the paperwork at the INS office and dealing with that. Soon I'll be doing it again.
Congratulations 🎉🎉
Good luck. And the bike ride, go north😊👍🏻👍🏻
Best of luck in your interview / green card!
Best of luck on the interview!
Thanks!
Congrats!
Great news. My daughters mom and new husband moved to Michigan a few years ago, but his parents did NOT get along with her so they moved to Texas again. lol
congrats!!
Great news. Also, you are going north 😇
I would strongly suggest you reconsider
My thoughts as well. Things are very rough here, but I don't know what situation they're in exactly.
4:45 that Osaka to Kyoto ride with all the weird bike path barriers was how I found your channel and made me binge watch all your videos you had then
Any chance you'll do any epic rides once you're in the USA like the great divide trail (new mexico to canada) or the american discovery trail (coast to coast)?
That was a fun day haha. No plans for big rides in the US yet, but I'm sure we'll start planning some once we get settled over there.
Very good news! Great!!
My inspirations 👏🏻
Wow, from here in California, you guys look like you are in paradise. Why anyone would choose to go back to cold winters in Michigan is beyond my comprehension. I know that you two are still relatively young and are still at the age where you have to make as much income as you can and invests in a house so that when you reach your 50s, you can live a financially independent life style. I'm lucky, because I have already retired and living the FIRE life style. I chose to live my FIRE life style in my own paid off house in California because California have great weather and I can actually afford to live here in my retirement. Goodluck with everything that you guys pursuit, because what ever it is, I know the two of you will make it successful. Looking forward to many more videos from this channel even after you come back to America.
It definitely is paradise here and we'll likely come back during some winters 😁
More ratio of thoughtless drivers in vietnam than in Japan.
There's a lot of thoughtless people on mamachari in Japan to be honest
Congratulations on moving forward on your visa. I was just notified by email that our I-130 has been approved. We submitted our application at the end of April 2023. Definitely following this…you didn’t mention anything about having to get a physical done.
Nice! Apparently you can get the physical once the interview is scheduled.
Good luck to you
I went through all that ten years ago with my Indonesian fiancée
It was a long nightmare
Never doing that again
Nice. But I can see Thoung is excited. Happy for Team Cruise
Wow 🇻🇳 looks so good and clean...where specifically is that place in 🇻🇳?
Da Nang
Very good Em Thuong va chris!!reading over some of the comments I’ll mention it should be successful.the interview are conducted in Vietnamese unless the dependent wants to speak English a local staff will be there likely or the officer will speak Vietnamese .whom knows him or her may want to speak some Japanese or some English look forward to the great opportunities of you coming to the USA.and importantly for your husband and American family
Awesome
There are more videos coming with Brompton, on your channel..??
All the best on relocating to the USA. Safe travel. BY the way would you recommend the dentist you both went to in Da Nang. Looking for a highly recommended dentist to see when I visit Da Nang later this year. Thanks
Great news! Congratulations! Now you’ll have the option of living in both countries for extended periods of time.
Yes, and Thuong will be able to visit Japan and Korea :)
I live in the US and in DaNang currently, visiting the city for my first time. Saw a big cycling event this morning in front of my hotel near the dragon bridge. Did you guys participate?
Today was the half Ironman, we didn’t participate
Good for you. Running the gauntlet of US immigration red tape is no small feat. I hope you find success here. You might like life in Vietnam better.
Speaking of VN traffic lights. In Saigon the lights are the same. What ends up happening is three seconds after the light turns red traffic is still running the light. Meanwhile a few seconds before the other direction light turns green people also start running the light. So for a few seconds you have traffic chaos while everybody is crisscrossing the intersection.
Exactly the same here 😂
Got to take Thuong to a Wings game
That will definitely be a new experience for her
@@TwoWheelCruise Wings are awful w/o Larkin. Go see Bedard/Demidov in Chicago. Or, better yet a college football game at Ann Arbor
Little Caesers pizza sounds good
😂😋
Thoung in the USA? There goes the “neighborhood"…😉
Good to hear the good news. Thoung will have a time acclimating to Michigan winters. Even down in Missouri, I have many sessions on the smart trainer during the winter months.
John in Bethel. Missouri. USA
Missouri winters are heaven compared to Michigan winters 😂
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This is great news. Thoung can acclimatise before the deep freeze in December.
😂
Are there any shops in Vietnam where you can get taiyaki? That might be a fun thing to do together before you leave. 🎏
Yes, but it is not the same. We will show it during one of our upcoming bike tour videos
Moved from Japan to SE MI two years ago. Feel free to reach out.
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Don't forget the health check and the vaccines! My wife had to get tons of vaccines and it cost 90,000 yen or so! We entered the USA together last month, you are nearing the end, Congrats! Also, don't be worried when Thuong gets pulled aside to secondary screening when entering the USA. Took us 30 minutes in secondary, they just need time to process the Green Card.
Thanks and congrats! Yes, she's been getting all of her vaccines recently. She still needs to do the health check though once the interview is scheduled.
Congratulations, my wife and I are a few months behind you guys. We were just notified that our I130 was approved and everything is moving to NVC now. Hope things move quickly
Better not be the fake con19 one again.
This is honestly the worst of the “first world” countries to live in. Move to Canada or something.
We have rampant crime, terrible infrastructure, crooked politicians from both sides of the aisle, terrible weather.
If I could I would move to Vietnam in a heartbeat.
Suggestion move to US city with large Vietnamese community..
Helmets?
How has the maintenance been for the Mobot Royal since you got them 2 years ago? I am having a hard time justifying the price of a Brompton, even used ones, especially since it seems their price is more about brand than actual innovation as their copyright expired. Despite everyone saying "they are built like a tank" I see stacks of different issues on Reddit that those bikes have so I get the feeling it's just buyers cognitive dissonance
The frame has been solid. Some of the gears don't work anymore and either needs a tune up or replacement, but the bike is still perfectly rideable.
@TwoWheelCruise same happened with my current foldable bike. Cable is wearing out and the derailer has takena beating. Bound to happen to any bike with a derailer 👍
What is your average mileage in Vietnam? Stay safe and God bless
All our ride data is on Strava at Two Wheel Cruise
When my girlfriend/future wife went on her interview, they asked her questions regarding our relationship ... about what you would expect. Once it was completed, they asked for her passport. They overnighted it back to her the next day with the visa attached. This is the last step.
Good to hear it sounds like the interview questions should be pretty simple
@@TwoWheelCruise They just want to verify you are a real couple and not a scam to get a green card.
She will be shock in Michigan's Winter... hahaha
One and done likely. LOL.
😂
No helmut??????
Good news but I hope you prepare her for the culture shock going to the states.
KWUHZ
Life in detroit must be so grim
Only in the winter 😂
Just walk in and say you came from Venezuela
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Stay in Vietnam Belive me
We'll be back
Congratulations. It is going to be great following Thuong's journey into a new country but please don't become another generic US orientated channel. Your primary USP was showcasing the geography and people who live in a non-western dominated world and for someone who lives in the UK it has been highly educational and informative.
We are hoping to visit Asia each year
Badddd choice IMO coming to the US
Moving to America by mistake oh well enjoy paying things at high prices
The price to pay for passport security
America basher huh? America has highest GDP for a reason, I'm viet with american citizenship, will never live in vietnam ever.
@@marshapelo9830 how about being a little more respectful where Cruise and Truchong are I don’t think they would like how you said it like that either will never live in Vietnam like that
Adults with bicykle are suspicious in USA so change chanel driving big cars in Vietnam and wife will enter easily.
Moving to the u s is never a good news
A no helmet day
We don't usually use them for our casual city rides
@@TwoWheelCruise quite counterintuitive because you're most likely to get hit in the city!
Drivers are usually more careful around casual cyclists in normal clothes without helmets and the inner city speeds here are way slower and safer than our usual road bike riding.
Your poor wife is going to hate living in the u.s, soon she will beg you to move back to Vietnam
Are you crazy??
Better to stay in Vietnam or Thailand instead of USA.
I agree with you on that.
Hard to beat the quality of life there and I'm sure we'll be back
@@TwoWheelCruise They can keep the green card.
Agreed Thailand and Vietnam is the spot to be. The US has changed soo much and the cultural values are not recommended. Not trying to steer you away but this is the reality right now.
Green Card still a thing??? I thought open border policies allowed anyone to just walk into the US 😂
Most likely will not watch much anymore that you are moving from the beauty of Asia. 😕
We will try to make yearly trips back and visit other countries Thuong couldn't visit before once she gets her green card
@@TwoWheelCruise I will still watch I will miss seeing you guys in Vietnam and Asia and mostly definitely Tru Chong’s walks there but will be fine with me to also see you in Michigan your home town I hope things work out well for you guys too here really do 🤝🤝🤝
are you not angered by the fact that you are doing it legally, coming to the usa, and yet hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens just walk right in with assistance of the government and many foreign ngos?
2 completely unrelated issues and it doesn't hep to redirect anger at a group of vulnerable people, many of whom are escaping horrible life conditions. The government is intentionally understaffed for processing legal immigration, so I'm more upset by that.
@@TwoWheelCruise the anger is at the government for ensuring that it happens - and they are related immigration is immigration - and there are many many other things like first safe country, coming from other continents , 4 million of them in the usa
rip off brampton
Copyright is long expired 🤷♂️
She is going to hate living in America
Just show American immigration your RUclips channel that should be enough
It's on our application 😂
@@TwoWheelCruise it’s obvious that you two have a real marriage. You don’t have anything to worry about. 🚴♂️🚴♀️
BTW if you have heard about the current situation in America, worst case scenario fly her to Mexico and just walk across the border with her Joe Biden will give her a $12000 credit card and two years free apartment ,,,, definitely get a few new bicycles out of that😁🙏😇😇