ghill18299@aol.com (GHill18299) wrote in message news:<20030727032348.18197.00000420@mb-m15.aol.com>...
> Your wife can serve as guarantor, or her father. Anyone with a paycheck.

Heh, my wife doesn't even have a paycheque (well, she does, mine...)
but she worked out fine as a guarantor.

> Go to immigration, get the (few) forms needed.  One entails you write a short
> history of your courting period.  You will probably need to supply a
> non-returnable picture or two showing the two of you together on a date or
> trip.  Other than that, it's dirt simple.  Mine came in less than 2 weeks.

We didn't need the photo (or they forgot to tick the box saying
"please supply photo") and the dating stuff was simple "How did you
meet?", "Have you told your parents?", etc. I've heard they might be a
bit stricter if you were a dekichatta kekkon.

Ken