A dad walks into a market followed by his ten-year-old son. The kid is spinning a 25 cent piece in the air and catching it between his teeth.
As they walk through the market someone bumps into the boy at just the wrong moment and the coin goes straight into his mouth and lodges in his throat.
He immediately starts choking and going blue in the face and Dad starts panicking, shouting and screaming for help.
A middle-aged, fairly un-noticeable man in a grey suit is sitting at a coffee bar in the market reading his newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee.
At the sound of the commotion he looks up, puts his coffee cup down on the saucer, neatly folds his newspaper and places it on the counter.
He gets up from his seat and makes his unhurried way across the market.
Reaching the boy (who is still standing, but only just)the man carefully takes hold of the boys shoulder and quickly knees him in the groin.
The boy immediately convulses and coughs up the 25 cent piece, which the man catches in his free hand.
Releasing the boy, the man puts the coin in his pocket and walks back to his seat in the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting ill-effects, the father rushes over to the man and starts effusively thanking him.
The man brushes off the father's thanks. As he's about to leave, the father asks one last question:
"I've never seen anybody do anything like that before - it was fantastic - what are you, a surgeon or something like that?"
"Oh, good heavens no, I work for Revenue Canada."
Haha..now for the serious stuff
Having our son (some people call him our "Anchor Baby") born in the USA literally has no weight when it comes to getting naturalized, in fact my wife is scared that if we have to leave the USA that child welfare may take our son then he will be a ward of the state...I dont think that will happen though.
The company I am working for is trying to get our staus changed to immigrant alien but the paperwork is taking forever(http://atlas.doleta.gov/foreign/times.asp#state).
We actually have to go through a pile of government agencies like DOL (http://www.doleta.gov/), DOJ (http://www.usdoj.gov/), & DHL/BCIS (http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/index.htm)
I have also gone through backgroud checks & all that with the FBI, INTERPOL, RCMP (Canada) & local law enforcement..No criminal record anywhere...
The company just changed from one group of lawyers to another. The first lawyer in WA said that I could possibly have a green card by this November, the new immigration lawyer in DC is saying a few more years. Whats that all about, We are sort of getting dis-heartened by the whole deal, We really don't want to go back to Canada since it is such a joke up there.
My wife and I don't want to have to wait until our son is 18 to get naturalized...but we might have to
Oh well....take it easy
MD