新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit9b_new

[06:27.94]like any other citizen of the European Union?" I inquired.
[06:34.38]"If someone's married to a U.S. citizen,
[06:39.53]the assumption is they intend to reside there," he explained
[06:45.29]I said my wife had no intention of moving to the U.S.
[06:51.26]She had a teaching job in Italy to return to at the end of the summer.
[06:58.43]The immigration officer might believe her or he might not,
[07:04.30]I was told.
[07:07.14]Too many foreigners slip in as tourists
[07:12.00]and then try to remain on grounds of marriage.
[07:16.82]The procedure for determining that such unions
[07:22.15]are not tricks to obtain the treasured green card takes time
[07:28.70](sometimes separating couples for more than a year, I later learned)
[07:35.08]But surely there aren't many cases of marriage fraud involving Italians
[07:42.24]I suggested.
[07:45.41]There would be little reason to doubt my wife's word.
[07:50.56]The official gave me a look of pity for my simplicity.
[07:55.92]"I think you can understand why we can't have one policy for white Europeans
[08:02.98]and another for Filipinos and Mexicans," he said.
[08:08.95]So when my darling wife arrived at the airport in Washington,
[08:15.04]she wasn't wearing her wedding band,
[08:19.39]lest it provoke inconvenient questions.
[08:24.04]To be safe, she hadn't even packed it in her luggage.
[08:29.29]Nor had she flown on the same plane as myself
[08:34.51]doing so would have meant answering "yes"
[08:39.34]when asked whether she was traveling with any member of her family.
[08:45.60]Thus, she passed unhindered through the gates.
[08:51.04]When I met her on the other side we laughed with wicked pleasure
[08:57.19]as we'd gotten away.