Support the newlyweds to stay together
Hello everyone, my name is Kongcheng Kimyang. This past May 31st, I got marry to the most beautiful and loving woman I know, Haju Kimyang, the love of my life who came from across the ocean literally. She is intelligent, independent, strong, joyful, diligent, faithful, hardworking, and always humble before God. Haju is a woman who knows how to love others around her and knows how to be there for them. She always helps me to be a better man before God and before others.
Haju and I met in 2016 our freshman year of college. She always tried her best to do the work God gave her. No matter if that’s working, studying, or loving others, she always have done her best.
We have gone through some hardships after I proposed to Haju in 2019. Our engagement season was filled with unmeasurable amount of tears and desperate prayers. We prayed God to give us wisdom and peace to go through that season. There were so much unbearable difficulties in our lives especially for Haju. The pain was killing her from the inside. I had to watch her almost losing the light and joys which always sparkled in her eyes. It was one of the most painful times of my life watching the love of my life losing her passion for the Church, smiles, and hating herself and others from the deep end. She was not the bright and joyful person I knew. Depression and anxiety took her over.
By the grace of God, so many people around us helped Haju to fight that pain back. I witnessed how God heals our pain and redeems our darkness with my bear eyes through Haju’s recovery. She bravely fought that suffocating depression and anxiety that were taking her breath away. She and I finished our undergrad this April and she finished it off the program with summa cum laude. Sadly, COVID took our precious graduation ceremony away and also messed up our wedding plan that was supposed to be on the 1st of May. Her biggest disappointment was her family had to cancel their flight due to COVID. She was sad on the rehearsal day not having her mom right next to her. But through all these chaotic moments, God taught us how we are to trust God and depend on Him in every situation. Now, we are married and we are still going strong before God, now as a married couple.
This month, we are facing a big step as a newlywed. Haju’s student visa allows 60 days of grace period upon graduation which will end this month. Our original plan got messed up completely because of COVID-19, and now we are in a lot of needs.
Originally, we were thinking of applying for Haju’s green card towards at the end of this year (2020) as we will work and have to save application fee and extra charges which is close to $5000. So, Haju applied for a work visa and still waiting for the approval. However, due to the pandemic, now the government is considering closing off the OPT program (US college graduates work permit upon graduation) and we are not sure if the application will go through or not.
Because of this, we now have to apply for her green card as soon as we can before this month ends to make sure that she can stay in the US with me. If her visa just expires without any other visa, she will have to leave to Korea which will cost more money and time, and especially a long, unpredictable time away from each other right after we got married.
Your donation will go to pay the application fee and attorney fee, to help us paying other bills, and also to help our new start as a married couple because we are in a very tight financial situation. Any amount of help will make a big difference in our lives.
