^Staying at home is one thing. Trying to come home in the midst of COVID-10 restrictions in a foreign country in turmoil is the latest in a series of struggles Princeton native Justin Parke is facing to keep his family together.

Parke, remembered most recently here on the crew at Farmer’s Daughter restaurant downtown, is stranded in Suriname with his fiance and two daughters. Faced with the choice of leaving them behind to come to the U.S., he wasn’t on the last flight out of Suriname Wednesday.

But he’s still appealing to the government, to the U.S. Embassy, Department of State — to anyone who will listen — to help keep his family unit together and leave Suriname. He detailed the ordeal in a letter....

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:15 am I don’t know whether to pity him, or be angry at him, or just shake my head in bewilderment.

The guy is not even legally married to that lady, and he isn’t even claiming to be married (K-1 fiancée visa), so there is no legal family.

Now he wants to the US government to suddenly grant this Khmer lady, and her kids (not covered by a K-1 fiancée visa), relative visas (and eventual green cards). Why? Because he believes that the American government has an obligation to keep his ‘family’ together.

He even brought them all to a country in worse shape than Cambodia, for what? So then can all perish in an active civil war?

Meanwhile, I have been patiently waiting through the process for missus to get her visa to join me.

If this fool gets emergency visas granted for his ‘family’ before my missus, I’m filing a complaint with USCIS.

Except visa processing has been shut down due to the virus.

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:15 am I don’t know whether to pity him, or be angry at him, or just shake my head in bewilderment.

The guy is not even legally married to that lady, and he isn’t even claiming to be married (K-1 fiancée visa), so there is no legal family.

Now he wants to the US government to suddenly grant this Khmer lady, and her kids (not covered by a K-1 fiancée visa), relative visas (and eventual green cards). Why? Because he believes that the American government has an obligation to keep his ‘family’ together.