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We are having a crisis. Not an emergency, just yet...but definitely there are some very-bad-things going on in the periphery of what we are trying to accomplish here.
There is some question as to the state of Hamid's visa to India, as seems to be the case with many visas for Iranian students who have money and have learned in India to pay bribes as a matter of course.
We will find out tomorrow if he has to leave the country.

I've prepared all of our papers for the States, our pictures, copies of everything (and then some) so that if we get the news he's on his way out we can at least file the papers. Because we were married in India we must apply together to enter the United States from India, New Delhi to be exact.
The other option is for me to go to America on my own and file the papers from there - but as far as I'm concerned that is not an option.

I can't go with him to Iran because my Persian passport and identity card are not ready. Two more months they say.

Everything seems so tenuous all of a sudden. In Iran when they told me to leave after two and a half months, and in the middle of an already-extended-for-the-second-time visa, at least we knew we could go back to India together.

When things like this come up for us - and this isn't the first, won't be the last I'm sure - I start to tick off in my head the options, the different countries we could go to. It's kind of like being on the run, only we're not trying to be.
I find it ironic that we have to work so hard to stay here. But we need to be here if I ever want to go back to the U.S. again, and I do. But I won't go alone.