ATTENTION JULY FILERS! (2)

[Rob & Jin 0]

i'm sure your date is coming very soon

Edited April 30, 2008 by Rob & Jin

[Jeraly 4]

I am too kinda - I leave two months today and I am getting nervous!!

But you have your visa!

*jealous*

I just want my interview date at this point!

I know how you feel - I just wanted it all done and out of the way, even though I knew I still had a wait... now I keep thinking I should be doing more but...

[rae_and_scott 1]

Nah, enjoy the fact that everything is all done! That way you don't have to stress about visa details in your last couple months and can just spend quality time with the people there before you leave.

Thanks Rob. I am hoping every day we get our date so I can have something concrete to focus on.

[Jeraly 4]

Yeah - it's just things like selling my stuff, packing... I don't know - part of me wants it all to just magic itself into boxes and for some of it to just disappear, leaving behind only a small pile of cash

[Rob & Jin 0]

A big pile of cash would be better

[rae_and_scott 1]

[Jeraly 4]

A big pile of cash would be better

Yeah but beggars can't be choosers

[Rob & Jin 0]

Any news guys ?

[rae_and_scott 1]

nope, not on my end.

[Rob & Jin 0]

nope, not on my end.

jezz they are bad

[Thee_Rak 0]

Sorry I've been absent for a while but just haven't had much of anything to talk about.

You may recall that I was in a bit of a jam 'cause when we got NOA2 I went ahead and "guessed" how long it should take for the rest of the process (based on a lot of reading here). I booked my ticket to Thailand for May 29th and I booked our tickets into the US from Bangkok for June 13th feeling quite sure that I'd left plenty of time and that she should have the visa in hand no problem...

So we send all the stuff into the Embassy the first week of March and at the end of March we get packet 4 with the interview date JULY 11th.

I e-mail and e-mail and finally get an answer that they normally don't reschedual intreviews but that he'd send my request up to the officer... well a few more weeks go by and I don't hear anything back from anyone. I'm sorry but my workplace doesn't deal well with last minute requests for a month off so I've got to make plans right. I send in another e-mail and tell them "not to change anything" and that I'll rebook everything.

So today I'm looking at the Thailand group and somebody who got NOA2 three days b/4 me and sent packet 4 in about the same time has just the other day gotten packet 4 and their interview is MAY 28th[/]

I mean to tell you that I was literally begging them to change our interview from July 11th to late May. ####### I ask you.

[Jeraly 4]

Omg that is so horrible - I don't understand why it would work out like that... That really sucks I know I had a week's notice for my interview where some people had a month so there must be an element of luck of the draw but still...

*hugs*

You set a new date yet?

[*julez* 124]

Wow, Thee Rak, that really sucks big time. It really makes you wonder at how they determine who gets to interview when. Mind boggling! Hang in there.

[Thee_Rak 0]

Wow, Thee Rak, that really sucks big time. It really makes you wonder at how they determine who gets to interview when. Mind boggling! Hang in there.

Thanks all.... nope no new date set yet. At this point all I know is our POE is San Francisco on 21-Sept and that means we need to be married by Christmas. It really screws everything up for us on the wedding front. It's a good thing I hadn't actually planned anything (remember that I'm a guy). I was going to do it in Michigan where my folks spend the summer but now they'll be in Florida (where they spend the winter). I wouldn't be able to get my sisters all to come down there and I'm sure none of my friends would make it so it's all a mess.

My thought at this point is to try by brothers house on Smith Mountain Lake Virginia. It's a rural area and they belong to a tight little church who I'm sure would put on a nice ceramony. He's got a huge house so the party could be there. The trick is going to be getting my folks to come and my sisters too. Then when we are back in Kansas City I can throw a big party for "friends".

[Jeraly 4]

It all depends on how you want to work it - we had our "wedding" in Feb so we are just going to have a legal thing when I get there