Archive for the ‘Greencard’ Category

Many of you should know by now if they are under the lucky few to receive a Greencard this year. If you are a winner, you should be full of questions you want to ask someone. When we won the Greencard, not only did we have thousands of questions, our family and friends did, too. When do we have to actually move to the US? When and how will we get the Greencard? Do I as Flo’s girlfriend (we weren’t married back then) have a chance to get the Greencard? Where do we wanna live in the US? Do we really wanna go through with this? When will be a good time to move? What are we gonna do abroad? These were some of the questions we had.

What helped us out a lot was the American Dream winner forum (which you can join as a winner) and Greencard winners that had already gone through every step of the process. I would like to kind of give that favor back now that we live in the US, too, and therefor want to tell every single one of you: If you have a question I might help you with or if you just have a certain topic you would like me to write about in the next weeks, please feel free to shoot me your question via the comment section of this blog! I promise, I will make sure to try to answer every question as soon as possible!

For now to every one of this year’s winners I would like to say: Enjoy this exciting and challenging time of your life and don’t let yourself or your dream get done by other people. To everyone who got left out by the lottery this year: Keep your head up high. I believe that fate will give you this chance, whenever it feels you are ready!

PS: Thank you Tanja for helping us so much in the past and thanks for being a great friend now!

Even if we already have the Greencard and live our dream, I am really excited for everyone who waits for the new Greencard winners to be announced. For us this dream came as a surprise. By the time Flo received the winner notification he had already forgotten that he took part in the lottery. But I still think I know how everyone of you guys must feel right now! Since the moment we actually won the Greencard, I couldn’t wait to make this dream come true and actually move out here!

With this post I want to give a short good luck shout out to everyone out there waiting! And it comes with a little advice: If you win, don’t rush things! This is a huge step in life and it should be well planned. Don’t expect everything to be better out here or all your problems or worries to just vanish! Life in the US is pretty, but it can also be pretty tough sometimes! So, use that chance with open eyes and an open mind and fight for your dreams! Winning the Greencard is the beginning of something big, but it’s not the end of fighting for your dream to come true!

Good luck everyone! I keep my fingers crossed for you!

Sometimes I feel like Flo and I actually live the dream of someone else. Yes, we both always wanted to move to the US. Yes, we are more than overjoyed to get this opportunity. But no, we didn’t wait desperately to get this chance. The moment we read this mail telling us that Flo won the Greencard, kind of blew us over. As I already told you, Flo took part in the lottery for the first time and I never took part in it. So it wasn’t as if Flo and I waited for this chance for the last 20 years.

Yesterday we met a guy, that has been visiting the US up to three times a year for the last 20 years and took part in the lottery ten times more than we did. This guy already is half American and would move right now, if he got the chance, too. He actually thinks about trying to get a Visa on another way and I guess would fit in the US better than any American.

Seeing this sometimes makes me feel bad, because the Greencard kind of come to us via fate and not via hard work. We didn’t pray for this for the last 20 years. We didn’t cry over negative notifications for the last years. And we didn’t leave the US after a holiday with the desperate urge of just running back.

I somehow believe in fate and know that this chance is a chance we just HAVE to take und that we will make something good out of it. But it is a strange feeling to know that there are people out there that want this chance so badly! If I could, I would give those people a tiny part of my Greencard to live their dream as well. But I can’t. So I feel like I have to make this chance – at least to not be a burglar of someone elses dream!