The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Melissa G.:

Another bit of fun with the INS:

Friends of ours moved from CA to Canada for his work. While there, their son was born. Pretty soon after that, the job went away, and they moved back to the US.

Fast forward 3 1/2 years. Turns out, since they didn't "report his birth to the US embassy in Canada," they now have to go thru filing a full immigration request, along with a $1300 fee. Along with a full medical exam, and fingerprints (at their expense). And, probably, an immigration attorney, since the paperwork packet they were given has only vague instructions.

Of course, nothing was mentioned to them when they moved back to the US. Oh, no, that would have been too easy.

You'd think that in this kind of situation, if the INS _really_ wants to be sure that this minor child was produced by these two natural-born citizens, couldn't they just get a DNA sample to confirm he's actually their kid?

Emily @ #20: Iowa DOT has a website that's being updated pretty constantly, but the Google maps part of it is on the "high speed" side, and is being hit by enough folks that I'm getting time-outs trying to look at it.

That being said, I'm in Marion (on the NE side of Cedar Rapids), and have been working on how to get out of town fro a previously planned trip. We were supposed to leave this morning, but, well, our options for getting south and east of here were mostly under water.

For those who haven't found 'em yet, the web presence of the local news outlets:
KGAN (CBS affiliate)
KWWL (NBC affiliate)
KCRG (ABC Affiliate)
And the Cedar Rapids Gazette (includes a free online edition of the print paper)

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