The Privilege and Pain of Falling in Love Across Borders

There were no visas required when we fell in love online, but now we live in a bureaucratic nightmare

Leo Cookman
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readSep 18, 2019

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InIn an age of growing suspicion of one another, when policy is changing to build walls and ban travel, when nations vote to leave decades-old unions, falling in love with someone from another country…

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Leo Cookman
Human Parts

Peripatetic Writer. “Time’s Lie” out now from Zero Books.