Interview 10th July London

[Lou Lou 1]

[geordieluvr 1]

YEa!!!!! Congrats

[Bella 0]

Thank you everyone!! to those of you who are still waiting.. just keep the faith.. !! Dreams do come true!!!!!!!

[ajames79 0]

congrats!!

And thanks for sharing!!

Good luck with all future paperwork and such!

[jenart 0]

'CONGRATULATIONS' - have a wonderful life...........

[Rebster 0]

Congratulations!!

[godsavethequeen 0]

Well today i had my interview. First things first.

So yeah it all went smoothly.

I arrived at the embassy just before 9 a.m. and saw a big line of people outside standing in the road(which has been closed and looks like it will be for some time. The embassy is now surrounded by a big thick fence and has lots of armed po po doing patrols and staring at you to see if you look dodgy i guess. I tried to avoid looking like a terrorist.

....do you think a 1960's mod look is too edgey for the interview??

A guy from the embassy in a blue jacket(like the FBI etc wear) with American embassy or something on the back of his jacket told people to line up 9.30 and earlier on the left and later on the right. I swear though that he smiled at one point and looked just like David Duchovny.

...only when he smiled???

Eventually the line moved. The guy checked my letter and passport and sent me up the road aroudn the outside of the make shift fence and into the little security hut. Airport style scan. So then you walk all the way around outside the building past the sentry and around to the visa entrance at the side of the building. Then he tells you to switch off mobile phone and go up the stairs to the left. You go through take a number from the woman and then you sit down and wait for your number to be called.

A hut like a building site??? Was there a Tea Urn and Pin-ups?

I sat down with number 11 and waited. They were callign out 242 and numbers like that which at first confused me. Then i realised immigrant visas had low numbers and other visas had higher numbers. So yeah i eventually got in the building by about 9.47 (when i turned my phone off). I got called up after a short wait an dhad to go to the window and he asked for my paperwork. I handed him all that was required and he handed back some stuff i had included which was not required. He copied my documents which i had not done. I was expecting to pay $1 for each one but he did not charge me. He then gave me the courier form to fill out while i waited and sent me back to my seat with my x ray which he said i need to take when i fly. I dunno why. I didn`t see anybody else with one. He told me i had 6 months to travel and as my wife said since i don`t have that long. haha.

X-Ray when you fly!!! MMMmmm.... that is very strange....

So then eventually i get called to a different window and this is the interview proper i guess. He said hi and the first question he asked me was how i met my wife. I said it was a band website and he asked which one.

Which One then Yabasta?? really I wanna know.... Not the....... OK I won't go there

He aske dhow long we had known each other, asked if i was living in GA when we married. Asked what my wife did for a living , asked what i did and my in laws. He also asked who my co sponsor was and if my wife had any children. He asked how old the child was and he asked what i intended to do for work in America.

Oh yeah and he made me raise my right hand and swear to tell the truth before that.

was a bible involved??

Then it was the usual airport style fingerprint scans. He then said that the fingerprint checks take a few minutes and is borign to watch so he said that he woudl assume they are o.k. and let me go. He was friendly enough as everybody there was, it was just the place that was cold and unfriendly. So then i took my form to the courier desk and paid the £13.50. The letter i got said £9.50 but this was of course a lie. ha. Then i came out of the embassy and called my wife from the park on my mobile. I hung up when she answered and she called me back on our calling card.

Then i came home and made this post. Hope it helps put some minds at rest. The process was straight forward as i expected. Some waiting involved and that was it really.

At least the wait was shorter than the wait for your interview..... How many extra grey hairs and stress lines have you???

So again thanks for all your help everybody. I have asked for help a lot and so has my wife. Usually people have been very understanding and helful. It has been a long hard road but by the end of the week i will have my visa.

Thank you all and good luck to all those still waiting for their trip to the most protected waiting room in London.

Thank you Yabasta for your sensible advice .....a voice of sanity in here.... to me any how.. and the humour.

Good Luck, Bon Voyage and every Happiness with your Wife in the US of A....

[yabasta 0]

No bible was involved, it was just raise your right hand. I can`t remember though if he said "so help you god" or not. I just waited for him to finish and said "i do"(i think we might be married now).

The band was thankfully nothing anti-american sounding but the website is now useless for meeting a spouse(haha). The band was Hole.

The Embassy guy looked kind of like David Duchovny when he didn`t smile but not really as much as when he smiled. His hair was too short too.

A mod look could be bad but not as bad as say a Lennon cut. The hut was very much a burger van type thing but with a metal detector in it instead of a frying worktop thingy.

No pin ups that i recall but i was not in there long.

thanks for all the well wishes everybody.

[godsavethequeen 0]

No bible was involved, it was just raise your right hand. I can`t remember though if he said "so help you god" or not. I just waited for him to finish and said "i do"(i think we might be married now).

LOL

The band was thankfully nothing anti-american sounding but the website is now useless for meeting a spouse(haha). The band was Hole.

Ahhhh Courtney, love her (when she sings eerrr sorry expresses her deepest anger), the wife does too.... A good place to start a romance

The Embassy guy looked kind of like David Duchovny when he didn`t smile but not really as much as when he smiled. His hair was too short too.

A mod look could be bad but not as bad as say a Lennon cut. The hut was very much a burger van type thing but with a metal detector in it instead of a frying worktop thingy.

lol....... I have the 60's Garage Look too .........in fact that is more USy than the UK mod style so I'll try it....

No pin ups that i recall but i was not in there long.

thanks for all the well wishes everybody.

When are you off have you your tickets?

& What did you do with the record collection.... I'm worrying about mine... Getting expensive shipping with the P.O.........

[yabasta 0]

When are you off have you your tickets?

& What did you do with the record collection.... I'm worrying about mine... Getting expensive shipping with the P.O.........

No tickets yet. My problems are financial. I am a lover not an accountant. I have however told the agency i work for that my last day will be 27th of July. I am going to book my flight for the friday or saturday i think but i am waiting to have the visa in hand just in case. The visa should arrive tomorrow hopefully.

I have been taking my record collection over in bits during my visits over the year. Not many have made the trip yet though and i still have a good few apple boxes worth of vinyl to transport. I will hopefully be able to afford to ship a pallet or something without selling my babies. People on here have mentioned excessbaggage.com and they do seem cheap. I had another place that ship 2 cubic metres of whatever for like 600 or something like that and they shrink wrap and box up etc. That looked a nice secure way but until i have that kind of money then i will just leave my dad with my collection and take some each time i come back to England. I have got most of my clothes in America at least, trouble is i use clothes to cushion my vinyl. ha.

Do you have a lot of records to transport? What about other stuff?

Edited July 14, 2006 by yabasta

[godsavethequeen 0]

Lover not accountant not seen much loving nor money recently either.

I know what you mean about expensive. I sent a guitar amp, a small one for £100 wrapped in a quilt going on a slow boat. too much ££ Clothes, already left lots over there too the winter coats I ain't gonna need, N Carolina well hot.... the rest of the possessions I'm not too fussed about, mostly vintage half knackered 50's 60's stuff. I am a second hand freak so Yard Sales & thrift stores in the US gonna be my stalking ground mrswhizz has been doing a grand job fitting the US end out finding cool retro Americania furniture, she found our little dream home to rent last week & she's gonna move in there soon

Mostly It's the records and a guitar or two, perhaps the newish computer I'm worried about this end... .... been selling quite a lot of discs on ebay the last 6 months but that pisses me off it's so slow and it hurt's... Owch ...another load ends tonight ....sad;¬( .....most the music I like is US 60's garage / psyche. So the stuff I'm selling here i hope to find there for cheaper... yeah in my dreams.

I found somewhere that'll ship 100 square foot for £900 door to door I can't afford it, too much debt already with immigration & mrswhizz living here a year & not able to work legally you know the story. Gonna end doing the same as you & leaving with family and invite them over if they bring a box with em'

What about work?? are you going to find it easy. Those Americans work long hours for their meagre bucks!!! No EEC employment regulations there, the employers hold all the cards. It's like socialism never happened!!! I found my dream work place just gotta send some positivity that way and hope that synchronicity exists.....lol .... I shall be perfecting my queens english accent and lose some of the midlander in it..........

[yabasta 0]

I had a job lined up through my father in law but the Ford plant is now closing down so i will just have to apply everywhere i can think of. I might go back into retail for the money but i don`t really want to. Otherwise i will perhaps take a trip to unionjobs.com and learn a trade and get medical etc. A union job is where it`s at over there.

[godsavethequeen 0]

I had a job lined up through my father in law but the Ford plant is now closing down so i will just have to apply everywhere i can think of. I might go back into retail for the money but i don`t really want to. Otherwise i will perhaps take a trip to unionjobs.com and learn a trade and get medical etc. A union job is where it`s at over there.

I'm sorry about the job. A union job, like On The Waterfront cool!

I tell you the accent may get you a great retail job. I was told about a British guy, a right crook and con man, who sells some ####### over there and makes big money. His customers think the English don't or can't lie, they trust the accent!?!? .............Those women flocking round urrggghhhh.... "Saaaaya Saaamthin, I louurrve yuuur akkssssaant" Tell 'em to flock off and they squeal with joy wetting their pants, and I mean UK pants not US pants.

...good luck in whatever you end up doing Yabasta.

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

I had a job lined up through my father in law but the Ford plant is now closing down so i will just have to apply everywhere i can think of. I might go back into retail for the money but i don`t really want to. Otherwise i will perhaps take a trip to unionjobs.com and learn a trade and get medical etc. A union job is where it`s at over there.

I'm sorry about the job. A union job, like On The Waterfront cool!

I tell you the accent may get you a great retail job. I was told about a British guy, a right crook and con man, who sells some ####### over there and makes big money. His customers think the English don't or can't lie, they trust the accent!?!? .............Those women flocking round urrggghhhh.... "Saaaaya Saaamthin, I louurrve yuuur akkssssaant" Tell 'em to flock off and they squeal with joy wetting their pants, and I mean UK pants not US pants.

...good luck in whatever you end up doing Yabasta.

Sure but most can still spot an ####### hole from a mile away.

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

Congratulations, Yabasta and Bella! Glad to hear you were approved and will soon be reunited.