Immigration Update

So today Ron and I both mailed off the latest sets of forms needed for the process of getting Ron to the States. Fingers crossed that these will have fast turn around. With luck, all that is left should be the interview in London and the medical requirements, but it is hard to be certain of that.

In the mean time, my own latest visitor visa runs out in early September and with July fast running out, we will need to decide soon whether I am returning for another visitor visa or acting as the advance force in moving to California. Either tactic has drawbacks, but I'll need to look for plane tickets soon--either a round-trip to Europe to re-set the visitor visa, or a one-way to the States.


This week, however, will largely be given over to academic pursuits: revising my thesis into a book article. It is certainly strange to be going through all this again--a subject so very familiar but one I haven't touched in a year. I have a contract at last, and now have only to make good on it. I need to cut the length nearly in half, and it would be nice if the half cut away could resolve itself into a second publishable work, but we shall have to see. Much the word count may go simply in tightening up individual paragraphs and sentences to be more succinct.