[[Aahh, a pit rant I can agree with whole-heartedly. The INS are the biggest bunch of assholes in the U.S. Government, the IRS could give them nice lessons.]]
We brought our son through INS from Jamaica when he was a baby. Jamaica won’t allow adoption there, so they “release the child for adoption overseas” and you gotta get em over here to do it. I have a lot of perserverance, but I tell you, those sadists sabotaged us every step of the way. A month after we returned certain forms to them, they’d tell us that they were the wrong ones “you need this one in green, not red.” And these were the forms they’d given us. Four hour bus ride with a wet baby on my lap to an appointment with them in Kingston and they’d tell me, “Come back tomorrow.” They sent a whole packet of really valuable, stealable identity type papers - marriage license, birth certificates, etc. to the US INS which bounced them back to Jamaica… they went back and forth until someone in the US who was friends with somebody in the office intervened for us. Took us nine months to get through, and it was much harder than a pregnancy.
Methinks we all need to get together and plot the demise of the Most Evil of Agencies…