Since I came back from Iraq, my division of the office has been Legal Assistance.  It was the only part of the office I hadn’t worked in before.  The biggest - and definitely most mystifying - part of my duties is being the command representative for all the commands on base for Immigration and Naturalization.

After getting by with the minimum amount of knowledge necessary to get what I need to get done, done, I got 3 packages in 1 day and it was then that I decided I should probably force myself to learn the process better.

So I set out to learn everything I need to know and to make standard emails to send out with all the information to give to interested people.  It’s been a huge undertaking, but in the last 5 days, I managed to get a good grasp on what I’ve avoided for the last 6 months.

Believe it or not, my intention in my project this week was just to learn it, but by day 4 I’m thinking what better way to put this new knowledge to use than to apply it directly to us, and so?  In about a year, there will be one more U.S. citizen, one with the very short nickname of “B”.