I ran into an AM/LW couple that I know today at a model airplane fly-in. The LW (from Costa Rica), an English man who's family had sent him to Argentina during WWII as a child to be safe from the bombing, a man from Argentina and his 8yo twin granddaughters and I were talking about what's going on in Latin America and of course immigration to the US, legal, illegal and via spouses/fiancees. The Argentine took out his 'green card' to show the grandchildren and of course they wanted to know why is it a 'green card' if it is actualy pink?. I said "Well, a long time ago, they actually were green". Then the LW said "Yes, the one I got when I married Charlie was green, I'd show it to you, but INS kept it when I got my US citizenship a few months ago." I said "I thought, just assumed, you got your citizenship long ago" and she said "No, when they told me I was elegible, I told them let me wait a while, to be sure if the marriage is going to last, if it doesn't, I don't want to stay here. But the last time we traveled, at the border the INS man said 'Lady, you really need to update this card' so I went ahead and filed for citizenship"
The date on the green card that she had to turn in? 1951.
Do you think this marriage will last?
