~July 2007 K-1 Filers~

[rae_and_scott 1]

We only submitted a handful of new photos. My camera had broken so we actually had very few new ones. I really think it's practically unimportant.

I'm not sending any photos as evidence as they don't require it - it is just the passport ones they are after and I am not sure if we only need two or if we need two each for AOS/EAD/AP so six in total...

Whoops, yeah, I think I confused myself there and was thinking of the photos we took to the interview.

We also didn't send the 693, didn't even think about it, as our lawyer put our stuff together and she didn't even mention it. It seems to be the general case that if you get an RFE it's in the early stages of filing, and I think we're past that. Course, now that I've said that watch it come back to bite us in the #######.

[tucson_chick 0]

@ babbles... sent I864 (again too many form numbers so might be wrong but you know the one I mean) for both Nick and my co-sponsor, didn't send I864A for either.

At this point I know I'm at least getting 1 RFE for w2's but hey, can't change it so what's the point in moaning for sake of 2weeks? I know this sounds strangly unstressed and calm for me but trust me. I'm boiling over with financial stress and other stress just now.

With regards to world market being expensive...I don't care. I don't have anything like it here. I have to drive 3hrs to Omaha for it so it's a treat for me to get anything from back home. Not had a hobnob since march!!! I've had mixed reports regarding the Irn bru issue. My dad's hand luggage in October is consisting of my flute and 6 packets of hobnobs. My mammy bringing an extra suitcase with more of my clothes that I couldn't bring back in March.

i absolutely agree. we have a kinda worldmarket here, and I absolutely do not feel bad at all to spend 4$ for a pack of german chocolate cookies.

[Jeraly 4]

I think I want to leave out the I-693 purely because of the new TB regs and the HPV annoyance - if I can get through it without having all of that then it will likely save us over $200 - All I am reading about with getting the I-693 though is that most physicians are insisting that people take another medical!!!

Maybe it is a bit lazy But I figure I can research it more once I have sent things off and if there are any problems, they will be easily rectified I *really* would love to avoid the HPV if I don't need to get it though as it is so expensive

yeah, it was fairly easy to find a physician here in town that only charged 10 bucks for it, and i didn't have to do the HPV, so it was a nobrainer for me to just do it. but in your case-----i would take the risk, too

eric and i had a competition: he did the K1 without a RFE, so I had to do the AOS without RFE. well, we're just super-nerds.

Hahah - but nerds are cool! And Eric and Jeremy seemed to have a lot to talk about I bet by the time you come over he will be bursting at the seams to talk linux again and by the end of the evening I am sure he will have aspired to decorate our entire tiny apartment with things involving tons of wires everywhere

At this point I know I'm at least getting 1 RFE for w2's but hey, can't change it so what's the point in moaning for sake of 2weeks? I know this sounds strangly unstressed and calm for me but trust me. I'm boiling over with financial stress and other stress just now.

With regards to world market being expensive...I don't care. I don't have anything like it here. I have to drive 3hrs to Omaha for it so it's a treat for me to get anything from back home. Not had a hobnob since march!!! I've had mixed reports regarding the Irn bru issue. My dad's hand luggage in October is consisting of my flute and 6 packets of hobnobs. My mammy bringing an extra suitcase with more of my clothes that I couldn't bring back in March.

Aww hun - I can relate to the financial stress - although I found out that Jeremy hadn't divided the credit card repayments by four on the spreadsheet we are using for our budget. So now I figured that out, our weekly expenses are just under his income for the week which is better than the $40 over we were originally!! Phew!!

i absolutely agree. we have a kinda worldmarket here, and I absolutely do not feel bad at all to spend 4$ for a pack of german chocolate cookies.

I want to go to World Market now... I am so glad we have one near... Debz - when you get online you can actually shop online with them as well So it might be easier for you to get things from there than from home even I signed up to their e-mails as well

[tucson_chick 0]

i don't want to go to work tomorrow......the weekend was over WAYYYYYYYYYY tooo fast.

dang!

[*julez* 124]

I saw chocolate Hobnobs at Wegman's on Saturday. $5.99 for a small packet. Nearly fell on the ground! We didn't buy any!

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

We only submitted a handful of new photos. My camera had broken so we actually had very few new ones. I really think it's practically unimportant.

I'm not sending any photos as evidence as they don't require it - it is just the passport ones they are after and I am not sure if we only need two or if we need two each for AOS/EAD/AP so six in total...

I think I sent 2 for each

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

I got a letter from you know who today concerning the EAD service request and it says that the card production was ordered on 08-09 so I went and checked their website and there it says it was done on 08-14. Well in any case I guess I should receive it soon. So we will see.

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Sorry guys I wasn´t able to attend on Friday. I swear I hd a bottle of water ready to bring But time is running against me these days. I have a lot of thingsto finish before the trip

[StillThePrettiest 3]

hi all, sorry I've been away for a bit... been really busy

the place where I volunteered to tutor English asked if I could do some more hours - general office work, admin, assisting a program director, and helping co-ordinate a symposium coming up in September... all pretty simple, and pretty close to what I was doing in my last job (well, one of my last jobs ) in London, so it's been good, and great to be doing something and meeting people and all that

as well as teaching ESL to people who need it and are motivated enough to come to classes; it's great

still haven't filed for EAD

feeling really stupid about that now... at first it was because we were getting the cash together, but now it's just me dealing with things the way I sometimes do when I feel overwhelmed by them - by ignoring them and pretending that by so doing, they will go away... it's dumb of me, and just delaying when I can start actually earning some money (which is even dumber, cos we're starting to need it) so I'll make the effort in the next couple of days

if anyone wants to help me out in any way...

[rae_and_scott 1]

still haven't filed for EAD

feeling really stupid about that now... at first it was because we were getting the cash together, but now it's just me dealing with things the way I sometimes do when I feel overwhelmed by them - by ignoring them and pretending that by so doing, they will go away... it's dumb of me, and just delaying when I can start actually earning some money (which is even dumber, cos we're starting to need it) so I'll make the effort in the next couple of days

if anyone wants to help me out in any way...

omg, I totally do this too!

Want me to fill out your papers for ya? I charge waaaaay less than my lawyer! heh heh.

[weedebz 0]

Just as I needed it...more stress. Had to rush my kitty Oscar to vet this morning for emergency appointment. He had a very bad and smelly case of the double buckets (stuff gushing out both ends). Now I have a grumpy biting kitty at the best of times. I now have to medicate him twice a day for the next 10 or so days. It took 2 vets 45 mins to get the first doses into him so I'm thinking it's going to be a 3 person job. He looks funny as he had to get his fur shaved off his butt where it was matted with yuck so he's a long haired cat with a baldy butt just to add kitty indignation to his already grumpy demeanor.

[rae_and_scott 1]

Debz, I feel bad for your kitty, but that description was quite funny.

So, I went wedding dress shopping today. For those of you who didn't know or had forgotten, Scott and I will be having our "real" (real to me anyway, though non-legal) wedding sometime next year in Montreal, after he has AP of course. So I went to the new Pronovias flagship store here in NYC and ooooh... it was fun. I consider myself to be extremely picky; most things I've looked at in magazines I just don't like for one reason or another. But actually putting the dresses on, feeling their weight and beautiful material... wow! I really enjoyed myself. The first thing I did when I got there was flip through their beautiful books of pictures, and I didn't realize they pretty much had them from most expensive to least expensive. So I'm looking at all these $10k & $8k dresses & kind of freaking out! That's way out of my budget. Most people's, I'm sure! But I was good and didn't try on anything out of my reach and it was awesome.

[tucson_chick 0]

haha! i can TOTALLY relate to this wedding-dress problem. i got a really nice dress from davids bridal because the dress that i REALLY wanted was 6k and i realized that it wouldn't be my dream-dress anyway.

I just couldn't possibly kill my savings for the dress, knowing that we would need that money for the first months of living together. sometimes I regret not having my dream gown and a slightly fancier wedding, but - I am unfortunately not cinderella......

oh, we have our greencard interview tomorrow and i really don't feel quite prepared......

[rae_and_scott 1]

Actually I think even if we could afford my "dream wedding" I would actually feel like I was being really wasteful & throwing $$ away. The only thing I wish I could have unlimited resources for are to make it as green and eco-friendly as possible. It kills me that soy candles are like a billion times more expensive than regular ones! Ah well.

Best of luck on your interview tomorrow. I'm sure it will go totally smoothly! So just get a good night's sleep.

[tucson_chick 0]

Actually I think even if we could afford my "dream wedding" I would actually feel like I was being really wasteful & throwing $$ away. The only thing I wish I could have unlimited resources for are to make it as green and eco-friendly as possible. It kills me that soy candles are like a billion times more expensive than regular ones! Ah well.

Best of luck on your interview tomorrow. I'm sure it will go totally smoothly! So just get a good night's sleep.

Well, our church ceremony in germany and the reception was really really beautiful, i guess i just really really would have needed more time planning and more time for us as a couple. Erics family was staying at my parents house for 2 weeks and we took them on trips around the country until the evening before the wedding.

it is such a sweet and smart idea of yours to have your wedding eco-friendly!

we just tried to have not-wasteful wedding and to have a great time with everybody.