These are people with valuable skills - he is a graphic artist and computer technician; she is an RN. I have been doing a slow burn for months now, while the Democratic Multicultural Peoples Republic of Maryland has done everything to avoid recognizing her RN certificate from the UK.
With the country in dire need of RN's, she is being ignored. I checked into it, and lo and behold, the head of the office in Maryland responsible for this is a hard-core leftist, appointed by ex-governor Glendening, arguably the worst governor in the history of the state.
Meanwhile, women from the third world who went through UK nursing schools after her, then transferred here, have had no trouble.
So don't get me started on the subject of amnesty for illegals.
Mum doesn't have a driving license much less than a police record.
Also the intensive medical, blood and urine tests, X-Rays etc...etc....
Final insult ......they searched her handbag at the airport.