hi emrn,
I emphatize with you. As I read your last post, I can imagine how hard life is for you. Well, maybe not financially, but emotionally. It is not easy to be away from kids growing up - to have instead watched them breathe as they sleep, to have instead watched them smile when they see you. Really, sometimes life is so unfair. I hope that your kids will be brought up by the father in a way to have fear in God, love for others, compassion, and a growing love for you as their mother.
Sometimes, we worry if the upbringing they have by your husband's side may not be as what we would want it to be. As you've said, your husband is someone influential in their locality. So, he may have the tendency to be arrogant and violent, and not much a good role model to the kids.
Why didnt you file custody for your kids. Yes, I know, there are maybe some other personal and extraneous factors behind such situation but I respect your privacy. All I can wish is that, just hold on, have faith in the Lord. You will only be able to fully appreciate the sunshine after a rain. My sister's experience is an awful lot like you.
Yes, we appreciate those who exerted effort to keep us going, to wish us good vibes in all these waiting games. But this is not like the Hunger Games movie, wherein the protagonist has control to change her story. She can control her own fate, her destiny. But for us who are waiting, we are like chessboard pawns, always on the lookout when is when is coming.
So, I hope that those who have been luckily granted a visa for a considerably shorter waiting period than us will just keep quite. To somehow 'admonish' someone na nagmura because he is desperately waiting, and cant wait any longer for the visa result is quite insensitive. Yes, we all have our ways of coping with life's chances and odds.
So, please people, dont JUDGE. If you have nothing much more to say to help those who are still waiting, maybe get over this forum. After all, you got your visa already. What is there more to stay? You are just simply adding insult to injury.