Basically it's recommended you don't bring a dog, lest one of your neighbors eats it when you're not watching.
- If you wait one more year, your wife can get her US citizenship. Well worth the effort to stick it out, then there's no more red tape. She's so close now; once she's got it-it's forever!
Don't leave the US during that year, or she might have trouble getting the citizenship. Not even to Canada or Mexico.
