German wife still foggy

[PortlandDad]

Beautiful weekend going on. Was out and about yesterday and took the kids to see Star Trek. It was good, but not great. I would recommend it if you are like good action movies, but I'm a real trekkie at heart so there are a few things I can't swallow without some indigestion.

Anyway, I spoke for about an hour with my MIL yesterday. First time in a few weeks actually. We talked about the W and what she is up to and how all that dreck is going. I asked her if she knew anything about her getting her German citizenship back and she told me that she didn't until I wrote her the e-mail where I asked about it, and she confronted the W with it and she confessed that she did get it back. I asked her how she was able to get it back so quickly: the last time I helped the W investigate it, it was going to take 4 years and proof of income. She told me that they gave her some sort of fast-track treatment because she had lived there for 18 years and was going to school at the time. *sigh* yet another bad decision that she made while she was in WAS mode.

Since Germany won't allow dual-citizenship anymore, that means that she had to renounce her American citizenship. Her mom says that she thinks she still has her American passwort, but doesn't believe that she can enter the country with it. I asked her if she thought that the W was still making arrangements to come back, and she told me that she did think so. The W has been packing and doing a lot of preparation work to move. She is having trouble getting rid of her car because she doesn't even have the title; my MIL had to co-sign for it and that is why she had to come out of retirement to help pay for her car!

On top of that, IF she comes back she is going to need a green card again or she will be an illegal alien her in the US. She also won't be able to work here until she gets the green card. Man, she has made an absolute mess of this. Apparently she is wading into that mess right now, but she hasn't deigned to let me in on how that is going or what help she needs from me to make this happen.