> After getting married, all I needed to do was take the marriage certificate to the immigration office and was pretty much instantly approved for a 3 year visa

> After getting married, all I needed to do was take the marriage certificate to the immigration office and was pretty much instantly approved for a 3 year visa. Yeah, this is the part I always think of when I hear people here grousing about standing in line to submit visa paperwork or whatever. It's annoying to waste a day at immigration, but I know people in America where one partner is an American citizen and the other is an immigrant, but they've been watched and scrutinized and interviewed for years and years before the immigrant partner could get a green card. It's pretty ridiculous.