Updating the never ending saga of my wife and my travels through immigration pt infinitum

[AZLD4Candidate]

My wife has grown tired of the Chinese idiocy surrounding COVID19.

Every three days, he isn't "forced" to test, but if she doesn't, her green status on their tracking people app turns yellow, meaning if she leaves to go anywhere, she will be required to quarantine up to seven days before doing anything in the new location, even if she just goes one city in either direction.

While we hear about Shanghai, no one mentions the Chinese countryside where my life lives. Things are dire there.

She has had it with this, and with the Chinese "family means everything, except yours" attitude. They won't even adjust their incoming direct flight policy to reunite a family. And there are now no direct flights that cost less than $18K USD until the beginning of August.

We have decided to go to other countries: Either Taiwan, Korea, or Thailand.

The GFM I started will make that possible.

China and the US have gone to great lengths to keep us apart. I am soured to there. She is soured to coming here alone.

Governments are going off the deep end.

[XanaDUer2]

1. Sounds awful and stressful

I'd lose it

[DFW]

4. Air traffic has been cut way back. Airlines flying long direct routes can charge whatever they want

There are no nonstops from central Europe to Hawaii, but we just did a round trip with our daughter's family. We could have had a two stop (Paris and Seattle) from here (Düsseldorf) for 30% less than it cost for a one-stop, and it only involved one overnight flight on the way back instead of two. But it would have meant traveling separately from our daughter and her family, so we let her decide, and flew with her from Frankfurt.

There is a far cheaper roundtrip from L.A. to Shanghai, but it involves a torturous detour to New Zealand on the way there, and a few stops at out-of-the-way airports on the way back. I wouldn't want to do that to myself, either.

[hlthe2b]

2. Thailand has quite the expat community who really enjoy it. I have had friends in S. Korea too...

Seems you may have options. Best wishes on getting this moving forward.

[XanaDUer2]

3. My relative lives there nt

[JCMach1]

5. Which country is her current application through?

I only ask because I had something similar with my wife and Kenya's election several years ago. We could have gone to a 3rd country with an embassy: Bahamas, TZ, Uganda...

However, because we filed in Kenya, she would have to conduct all business through that embassy.

Also, be bipartisan if you need help from a congressional office. My Dem. Rep and Sen. were useless. Sen. Rubio's office was extremely helpful. Help sometimes comes from places you wouldn't expect necessarily.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. She is going through this insane process in China, but we may need to switch when we move

next month to be back together after two years to either Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, or possibly Burma.

[JCMach1]

7. It used to involve a complete refile, but I am probably preaching to the choir