Well, my personal loan payment hit today, and almost the whole payment went to principal! $614, to be exact. So that means I've paid $1631 off this month, exceeding my goal of $1600. And I may still have another of AS's student loan payments hit yet this month.
Even more exciting for me, the personal loan, which is my highest-interest debt and a $623 monthly drain on the budget, is now under $10,000! Yep, it looks a lot prettier at $9,803. Even more incentive to snowflake the hell out of it, now that I can see the end in sight.
I've been meaning to write a blog entry about "side hustles" (thanks to Frugal Dad for the cute term), avenues for extra income that I'm thinking about pursuing, such as creating blogs to make ad revenue with. But we just got an RFE (Request for Evidence) for making NT's U.S. residence permanent, so I'm going to be throwing all my energy into creating an exhaustive packet of evidence to send off to them. Don't want to screw this up! I will talk more about side hustles once this task has been taken care of.
Reached June debt goal! Green card stress
June 17th, 2009 at 06:23 pm
June 17th, 2009 at 09:13 pm 1245273182
Good luck with throwing together your RFE. Sounds like it shouldn't be too hard to do, given your a legit marriage!
Pre 9/11 my best friend considered marrying the brother of my other friend's Pakistani husband. The offer was $15K cash for the marriage of convenience. Probably a good thing that she didn't do it. If she was offered such a deal now, she'd probably take it.
June 17th, 2009 at 09:23 pm 1245273805
Your friend doesn't sound organized enough to have pulled this off, so good thing she didn't try. LOL. She certainly would have earned that $15K by jumping through all the immigration hoops, putting together fat packets of documentation and convincing evidence--not to mention they probably look at Pakistani applicants much more closely now because of the Taliban.