A US migrant from a Schengen country here, that moved here for family reasons, and I absolutely concur. I’m currently on my third application for a permanent r

A US migrant from a Schengen country here, that moved here for family reasons, and I absolutely concur. I’m currently on my third application for a permanent residency. First one got obsolete, second was denied because of a technical error, and the current one was filed in last August and is still pending. I have been in active process since April 2020. I have close to a thousand pages of filing documents, several thousand dollars, countless stressful moments, a couple of missed weddings of siblings back home, etc. I am currently waiting for a my I-131 and am not allowed to travel back home unless I can prove it is an emergency (and then only for 3 weeks), and I am not allowed to work (though, rumors have it that illegal work is not enforced for spouses of citizens). You file an I-765 for work authorization which is handled along your I-131. The current average waiting period for that is 10.5 months... I’ve waited 9. I don’t recommend this for anybody.