Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 6)

[BelwinMills 0]

awakening1 congrats on the interview date :dance:

Ms. B;

I want a to have another baby. I was feeling old at 37, but look at you SON awwwwww the more I want one more. How u doing since his birth?

Sorry Ms. B;

That's what I get for drinking NYQUIL in the day time...I met to say your baby girl. I'm mixing you up with my co-worker who had her son the same day as you daughter. Okay. No more drugs for me.

awakening1 congrats on the interview date :dance:

thanks and congrates on your beautiful princess. She is an absolute doll!

Awakening;

Did you ask you SO if he remembers some physcho women (would have been me) outside the embassy the day he dropped of his DS-230?

Thats ok Lawny!!

The funniest thing when we were at the hospital 2 nurses ask my dad if he was the father. He laughed and said no that Dwain had gone to School and he took over on the day shift. He said the only way possible to be the father is if he was a plagimist from like the Texas Ranch. I started laughing really hard. Here my dad is 54 and they thought he looked a lot younger.

Oh it reminds me I am going to get a new pic soon and have her in pink

That's 2 cute. What a complement. You must have a phine daddy. When my son was born all the nurses thought his dad was either white, chinese or hispanic. His father was sitting in the corner and they would ask when the dad was getting here.

LOL Yeah when Dwain came back to the hospital. My dad said here is the father and we look nothing a like. She looks like her daddy but has my very light skin which I was so suprised. Dwain said she looked mexican at first. My cousin and friends have biracial kids but they are all a lot darker. And my cousin is very pale with natural blonde hair. So I guess thats why we were surprised.

[BelwinMills 0]

Oh you said it was you Bel!! So were you and Lawn there on same day?

Alright I need to go wake up princess. I let her sleep a couple extra hours. She needs to nurse or I am going to be up all night again. I will Check in later. Have a great day ladies.

[Islandwoman 0]

By the way, mornin' everyone.

So I know its too soon to start getting impatient about my petition ... only been sitting at VSC for a little over a month... but been wondering have any of you been approved without any touches, like you just got an email saying you were approved? just curious....

That was me - never touched a single time. Then all of the sudden one day I got the e-mail!

Where you been all day. I need to laugh. SOMEBODY ANYBODY make me laugh

Working!!! Boss has been in the office every day this week. Time for him to leave so I can chat it up on VJ!

I see everyone making appointments to drop off the DS230. Is the other option by mail?

[Islandwoman 0]

awakening1 congrats on the interview date :dance:

Ms. B;

I want a to have another baby. I was feeling old at 37, but look at you SON awwwwww the more I want one more. How u doing since his birth?

Sorry Ms. B;

That's what I get for drinking NYQUIL in the day time...I met to say your baby girl. I'm mixing you up with my co-worker who had her son the same day as you daughter. Okay. No more drugs for me.

awakening1 congrats on the interview date :dance:

thanks and congrates on your beautiful princess. She is an absolute doll!

Awakening;

Did you ask you SO if he remembers some physcho women (would have been me) outside the embassy the day he dropped of his DS-230?

Thats ok Lawny!!

The funniest thing when we were at the hospital 2 nurses ask my dad if he was the father. He laughed and said no that Dwain had gone to School and he took over on the day shift. He said the only way possible to be the father is if he was a plagimist from like the Texas Ranch. I started laughing really hard. Here my dad is 54 and they thought he looked a lot younger.

Oh it reminds me I am going to get a new pic soon and have her in pink

That outta keep Lawny straight - hehehehe! Just kidding - Love ya gurl!!

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

By the way, mornin' everyone.

So I know its too soon to start getting impatient about my petition ... only been sitting at VSC for a little over a month... but been wondering have any of you been approved without any touches, like you just got an email saying you were approved? just curious....

That was me - never touched a single time. Then all of the sudden one day I got the e-mail!

Where you been all day. I need to laugh. SOMEBODY ANYBODY make me laugh

Working!!! Boss has been in the office every day this week. Time for him to leave so I can chat it up on VJ!

I see everyone making appointments to drop off the DS230. Is the other option by mail?

My can send it express. Which is the only way I would send something to the embassy. I DO NOT TRUST THE JAMAICAN MAIL SYSTEM. (That way you have a record)... All now my fiance don't have packet 4 which they say they mail out 2 weeks ago and send me an appointment letter also since I'm attending. I guess it's still be typed up.

[clairern 0]

awakening1 congrats on the interview date

Ms. B;

I want a to have another baby. I was feeling old at 37, but look at you SON awwwwww the more I want one more. How u doing since his birth?

Thanks Trelawny and Awakening.

Awakening your interview reminds me of us a year ago. I can't beleive we had our interview just one year ago in May. It feels like forever ago. How time flies.

I am doing just fine after I take my pain medication. She wants to be fed about 12 times a day so for the most part I am tired. My mom and dad are coming to help Thursday-Saturday nights. This is when hubby goes to work. Its hard cause he wants to help but I want hubby to sleep because he has work and finals next week. The sooner he is done with school the better off we will be. He wants another one but I don't at this time pregnancy and labor was ruff. Maybe we will think about it when he finishes school. He has 1 year done out of the 4 years. One thing is hubby and I can't believe how light she is. I can't wait until she is a few months older and not sleeping all day.

Good mornig you all,

I have a question to ask (maybe silly to some of you). Have you ever heard of anyone filing CR1/IR1 being denied in Kingston. Im just curious my case was just completed at the NVC and im just curious.

Thanks,

Kishmar

When I went to my interview I did see a CR1 case denied. The reason the guy didn't finalize his divorce from his first wife before they got married. Eric on here got denied for ganga. He was baned 3 years and waited. Then they recieved their visa. I really don't think its anything you have to worry about as long as every thing is ligit. You will do fine cause your using this site. Just bring as much prof as possible down. All the best!!

Thanks Bel for the info not really worried. Ive been married to my darling for almost 4 years now come July this year......Not sure of the evidence my hubby will be coming for the interview and i have a few pictures, cards, and such like....My marriage to my husband for almost 4 years and him coming back and forth should be proof enough dont you think???

Regards,

Kishmar

Kishmar that is plenty. Being married 4 years is great enough evidence in my book. All the best.

That is what I keep telling her

[clairern 0]

By the way, mornin' everyone.

So I know its too soon to start getting impatient about my petition ... only been sitting at VSC for a little over a month... but been wondering have any of you been approved without any touches, like you just got an email saying you were approved? just curious....

That was me - never touched a single time. Then all of the sudden one day I got the e-mail!

Where you been all day. I need to laugh. SOMEBODY ANYBODY make me laugh

Working!!! Boss has been in the office every day this week. Time for him to leave so I can chat it up on VJ!

I see everyone making appointments to drop off the DS230. Is the other option by mail?

My can send it express. Which is the only way I would send something to the embassy. I DO NOT TRUST THE JAMAICAN MAIL SYSTEM. (That way you have a record)... All now my fiance don't have packet 4 which they say they mail out 2 weeks ago and send me an appointment letter also since I'm attending. I guess it's still be typed up.

Did you receive the letter from Kingston? Since you are going to be there at the interview, you can fax him a copy of the letter so he can have his medical done and hopefully by the interview date comes around he will get it. Or you can use your to take to the interview.

You know what is strange... Mike never received any mail from the NVC but when I told him I received the letter from Kingston, he sent his daughter to the post office and he got his also. They mailed it 4/8 and he got it last week...That freaks me out. I don't bother writing to him anymore, cause its a waste of time and money and effort---it getting delayed and all.

Edited May 1, 2008 by clairern

[clairern 0]

HEY CLAIRE...are you ready for 5/6/08????????????

Ready fe wha? Afta a nuh me a guh?

[SupportOAFJF 0]

Lawd Claire...no bodda act like yuh no well excited !!! mi know yuh cyaa wait fi si Mike !!

So...oonuh memba the sexual harassment case...well di gyal did a lie..a she did a harass di man...dem interview the boyfirend and him not even mention nuttin bout SH to dem..the gyal and di man wah she a tell lie pon used to be in a relationship and him lef har and she vow fi get hi man..yuh si how tings go...so ther goes my 15 points

[Marlita 0]

Hello everyone! I'm back from a wonderful visit with Dwayne. We had a blast just being together. Anyway, I must share what happened as I prepared to leave Sunday. It's pretty long but I figured someone could relate or benefit from my lessons learned.

I get to the Kingston airport and they ask for my passport. No problem I think and reach in my bag. OH LORD no passport!! I get out of line and rip open suitcase and no passport!! I had to call Dwayne to come back to get me. We go back to the house and search and search no passport!! I'm crying at this point because I'm supposed to be back at work next day. Dwayne family was all talking in loud patois about it being stolen and how people will take your picture out and sale it on black market. They fuss and fuss at me about not keeping up with it (Like I didn't fuss enough at myself). So I call the embassy and they were closed. My sister (Jawi876) looks up process for getting a temp passport and this is when the worse stress of my life begins. She tells me I will need a police report. So off we go to local police station in the area to report it. They look at me as if I have 4 heads and say, "You lost your passport or it stolen?" I say I have no idea it was not in my purse when I went to airport. They write something in a huge book about what I said and tell me I must go to Spanish town tomorrow to collect a form before they can do the report. I say, "You have to be kidding me!! Why can't you just give me the report?" They tell me it doesn't work that way and I say, "it sounds like you are giving me procedure for Jamaicans who lose their passport not Americans. This is what Dwayne had to do because his passport from birth was wet up and he needed to file a lost/damaged form. This is what took so long for him to order a new one. We basically ran around from town to town building to building 5 days of my trip). The police scratch their heads and say no "We THINK you need to go to Spanish town." So next morning we are off to Spanish town and when we get there they again do the 4 head look at me and say, "You lost your passport or it stolen?" OH Lord Gawd!! They say stand outside. I wait outside and then they call me back and give me the same form Dwayne had to fill out and say you will need to take this back to police station where you reported it lost and they will stamp it and then bring it back here. I said, #######!!" Dwayne grabs my hand and pulls me out because I'm crying now and acting like a crazed lunatic ready to windmill on some dummies heads. So they agree I don't need to bring it back to them but I do need to go back to police station for report to be filled out. So we go back to station (4 hrs to get back) and they say, "The person who needs to sign this is in court. You will need to come back tomorrow." I'm seeing red I'm so mad. So Dwayne makes a call to a cousin who is a policeman to see if he can help and he tells us to leave the form and come back tonight and he will have it filled out. We get back that night and the form is not done. They say he has been in court. The officers at desk do the 4 head move again and say, "Ma'am we have to investigate this passport issue and it can take 3 weeks or more before we give you these forms and a report." I freak out and start yelling again that it is absurd, so they send me to see the Chief. He sits behind his desk looking aggravated that I disturbed him from reading the paper and does the 4 head thing at me again. Then he says it may not take 3 weeks but this doesn't happen in one day. It may take us 1-2 weeks to complete this investigation. He says, "You see ma'am police are suspicious by nature and we need to find exactly what happened to your passport. It can't just be gone because you come in here and say it's missing." I tell him it is gone and he presses for more details of when I last saw it in my purse. He then says again, "Yes this will take time to investigate." I say, "What exactly are you investigating and can I help you complete the investigation tonight?!! I need to get to embassy tomorrow with a police report." He says, "Ma'am you see this looks suspicious so we have to find out if you sold it for money and thought you could come in here to get a police report for a new one." I say, "I can't believe you are accusing me of something like that and then say, "Why on earth would I sell my passport when my plane was scheduled to leave?" He says, "That's what we need to get to the bottom of." Anyway, we argue back and forth and Dwayne is trying to tell him I must get back to my job or risk being fired. He chuckles and says, Ma'am you were given a passport and you failed to keep it safe. You must deal with the consequence of that and your job is not our concern." Over an hour I argue my case that I'm willing to assist in investigation but I'm not leaving the station without a police report. Finally Dwayne calls cousin and he comes to the rescue and asks the Chief if he can do the report and he tells him ok. We do the report which was nothing but my statement on notebook paper. The next morning we head to embassy and I pay the $100.00 to get the temp passport. So lessons learned 1. Get a purse with a zipper. 2 Never leave passport in houses (lock it up somewhere safe). 3. Never lose passport again

On my way to airport yesterday, Dwayne's brother called and says excitedly, "Me find de passport pon de floor in de car!" It fell out into his car and we didn't see it in the search!! LAWD GAWD

Dwayne received a letter that our interview is scheduled for 6/24/08 at 7:30 am. Yippie.

I'm praying for those of you still waiting on details on your status.

Good Lawd!! Just reading this had me stressed out. But the whole time I'm reading it I'm thinking...."why didnt she just go to the US consular office?" When in a foreign country there are consular posts throughout the country/island that assist US citizens with these exact problems. You should register your travels and passport with the consular before making trips abroad. Here is the link to the main Jamaica page for US citizens travelling to Jamaica. And here is the link to register your travels. This is a standard for US citizens because of the high threats that can come against us just for being Americans. Many times people who are doing missions or some sort of extended stays register their travel just incase country violence begins to happen or passports are stolen and this registry helps you get back to the US and provides protection and assistance to you as an American citizen. Sounds like you were doing the procedures of a JA citizen who lost their passport.

When you register you can opt to get email travel alerts of Jamaica. They will tell you where there are places considered "unsafe to Americans". These are usually places where there is political violence or purposed attacks against Americans. In this past month I'v been receiving alot of emails on Jamaica and the different political viloence being played out all over the island. Its just a good idea to register.

Glad to hear you got your interview and that the passport was at least found.

Edited May 1, 2008 by Marlita

[nannygirl82 0]

awakening1 congrats on the interview date :dance:

Ms. B;

I want a to have another baby. I was feeling old at 37, but look at you SON awwwwww the more I want one more. How u doing since his birth?

Sorry Ms. B;

That's what I get for drinking NYQUIL in the day time...I met to say your baby girl. I'm mixing you up with my co-worker who had her son the same day as you daughter. Okay. No more drugs for me.

awakening1 congrats on the interview date :dance:

thanks and congrates on your beautiful princess. She is an absolute doll!

Awakening;

Did you ask you SO if he remembers some physcho women (would have been me) outside the embassy the day he dropped of his DS-230?

Thats ok Lawny!!

The funniest thing when we were at the hospital 2 nurses ask my dad if he was the father. He laughed and said no that Dwain had gone to School and he took over on the day shift. He said the only way possible to be the father is if he was a plagimist from like the Texas Ranch. I started laughing really hard. Here my dad is 54 and they thought he looked a lot younger.

Oh it reminds me I am going to get a new pic soon and have her in pink

the nurses kept asking me if her father was mexican.....

[Forever Young 1]

LOL Yeah when Dwain came back to the hospital. My dad said here is the father and we look nothing a like. She looks like her daddy but has my very light skin which I was so suprised. Dwain said she looked mexican at first. My cousin and friends have biracial kids but they are all a lot darker. And my cousin is very pale with natural blonde hair. So I guess thats why we were surprised.

Jax,

Here's a secret...if you look at the color of her fingers...right above her cuticles...that's typically a good indicator of what her final complexion will be. I didn't believe it either until I did a test on my 2nd son, Gavin. I checked out right above his cuticles...a few days after his birth...it was darker than my complexion or my ex husbands...but sure enough his complexion is true to the color of his cuticles...he doesn't look like either one of us...Gavin looks straight Koolie...but is the dead stamp of his older cousin... Genes are an AMAZING thing!

Bless,

Gill

P.S.- I hope I didn't offend anyone with this tip!

P.P.S- Don't forget to post the pink dress picture...I love Baby girl's clothes...they are so cute...dem come in like dollie!

[shrewdgal 0]

I just got back from walking over to the hospital with my mom. My Aunt died about 10 a.m. today. I'm so glad it's over for here. She struggled with this for so long and in great pain. My dad is a mess. She's his little sister. Added to the fact that we lost my grandmother, who lived with my mom and dad, just one year ago this Thursday......well, you can imagine how torn up he is right now. I feel so bad for him.

Sorry for your loss of a love one. My condolence to your and your family.

Death leaves a heartche no one can heal, love leaves memory no one can steal

Be Blessed

I am sorry for your loss and understand what you are going threw. Dwain lost his dad in October and then the next October I lost a great uncle. My prayers go out to your family JOMO. I just celebrated the life that they had.

Does anyone know if i need to send NVC the 2 copies of the police certificate or should I keep one and send another photo copy of it also? I got 2 form hubby and they both have his passport photo stapled to them so now I am not sure if I am supposed to send them both or just send one?

Just send one and keep one for the interview.

Do they always give two copies or do I need to request one?

You automatically get two copies.

thanks..if i ever MAKE IT to NVC that will be good to know!

Girl you will get there, don't you worry. God has a plan for you, You just don't know it yet. After you get to NVC you will speed up like Marlita. Paying online and all speeds it up.

I hope so. I really do. Today is a really hard day. My work is super stressful right now, I am past 180 days at VSC with no news. The phone card I have been using for like 3 years (Sprint International) just suddenly went up to 50cents a minute, and lots more things I just want to crawl in a ball and whine about. cry about.

thanks ladies for the continual support and prayers.

and....did anyone else use sprint? what other calling cards are good? I cant really get a plan on the house phone b/c I just rent a room from a lady...so..any help?

Hello everyone! I'm back from a wonderful visit with Dwayne. We had a blast just being together. Anyway, I must share what happened as I prepared to leave Sunday. It's pretty long but I figured someone could relate or benefit from my lessons learned.

I get to the Kingston airport and they ask for my passport. No problem I think and reach in my bag. OH LORD no passport!! I get out of line and rip open suitcase and no passport!! I had to call Dwayne to come back to get me. We go back to the house and search and search no passport!! I'm crying at this point because I'm supposed to be back at work next day. Dwayne family was all talking in loud patois about it being stolen and how people will take your picture out and sale it on black market. They fuss and fuss at me about not keeping up with it (Like I didn't fuss enough at myself). So I call the embassy and they were closed. My sister (Jawi876) looks up process for getting a temp passport and this is when the worse stress of my life begins. She tells me I will need a police report. So off we go to local police station in the area to report it. They look at me as if I have 4 heads and say, "You lost your passport or it stolen?" I say I have no idea it was not in my purse when I went to airport. They write something in a huge book about what I said and tell me I must go to Spanish town tomorrow to collect a form before they can do the report. I say, "You have to be kidding me!! Why can't you just give me the report?" They tell me it doesn't work that way and I say, "it sounds like you are giving me procedure for Jamaicans who lose their passport not Americans. This is what Dwayne had to do because his passport from birth was wet up and he needed to file a lost/damaged form. This is what took so long for him to order a new one. We basically ran around from town to town building to building 5 days of my trip). The police scratch their heads and say no "We THINK you need to go to Spanish town." So next morning we are off to Spanish town and when we get there they again do the 4 head look at me and say, "You lost your passport or it stolen?" OH Lord Gawd!! They say stand outside. I wait outside and then they call me back and give me the same form Dwayne had to fill out and say you will need to take this back to police station where you reported it lost and they will stamp it and then bring it back here. I said, #######!!" Dwayne grabs my hand and pulls me out because I'm crying now and acting like a crazed lunatic ready to windmill on some dummies heads. So they agree I don't need to bring it back to them but I do need to go back to police station for report to be filled out. So we go back to station (4 hrs to get back) and they say, "The person who needs to sign this is in court. You will need to come back tomorrow." I'm seeing red I'm so mad. So Dwayne makes a call to a cousin who is a policeman to see if he can help and he tells us to leave the form and come back tonight and he will have it filled out. We get back that night and the form is not done. They say he has been in court. The officers at desk do the 4 head move again and say, "Ma'am we have to investigate this passport issue and it can take 3 weeks or more before we give you these forms and a report." I freak out and start yelling again that it is absurd, so they send me to see the Chief. He sits behind his desk looking aggravated that I disturbed him from reading the paper and does the 4 head thing at me again. Then he says it may not take 3 weeks but this doesn't happen in one day. It may take us 1-2 weeks to complete this investigation. He says, "You see ma'am police are suspicious by nature and we need to find exactly what happened to your passport. It can't just be gone because you come in here and say it's missing." I tell him it is gone and he presses for more details of when I last saw it in my purse. He then says again, "Yes this will take time to investigate." I say, "What exactly are you investigating and can I help you complete the investigation tonight?!! I need to get to embassy tomorrow with a police report." He says, "Ma'am you see this looks suspicious so we have to find out if you sold it for money and thought you could come in here to get a police report for a new one." I say, "I can't believe you are accusing me of something like that and then say, "Why on earth would I sell my passport when my plane was scheduled to leave?" He says, "That's what we need to get to the bottom of." Anyway, we argue back and forth and Dwayne is trying to tell him I must get back to my job or risk being fired. He chuckles and says, Ma'am you were given a passport and you failed to keep it safe. You must deal with the consequence of that and your job is not our concern." Over an hour I argue my case that I'm willing to assist in investigation but I'm not leaving the station without a police report. Finally Dwayne calls cousin and he comes to the rescue and asks the Chief if he can do the report and he tells him ok. We do the report which was nothing but my statement on notebook paper. The next morning we head to embassy and I pay the $100.00 to get the temp passport. So lessons learned 1. Get a purse with a zipper. 2 Never leave passport in houses (lock it up somewhere safe). 3. Never lose passport again

On my way to airport yesterday, Dwayne's brother called and says excitedly, "Me find de passport pon de floor in de car!" It fell out into his car and we didn't see it in the search!! LAWD GAWD

Dwayne received a letter that our interview is scheduled for 6/24/08 at 7:30 am. Yippie.

I'm praying for those of you still waiting on details on your status.

Sorry for all the BS they put you through, but sometimes when we loose things and are looking for it in a hurry, we always overlook it. But nayway congrats on getting a June interview.

yes- congrats!

[Mrs. Palmer 5]

Shrewdie--I know how frustrating the whole phone card thing is...been doing this for years now, and I swear, it can be the final straw that breaks MY back! I primarily use the MCI International phone card. They get great rates, even on JA cell lines. And you can keep re-charging the card as needed. There's no hassle, and I've NEVER had a problem with ridiculous rate increases, and I've been using them for 3 years. Hope this helps! ((((HUGS))))

Tamisha

Edited May 2, 2008 by Mrs. Palmer

[Mrs. Palmer 5]

LOL Yeah when Dwain came back to the hospital. My dad said here is the father and we look nothing a like. She looks like her daddy but has my very light skin which I was so suprised. Dwain said she looked mexican at first. My cousin and friends have biracial kids but they are all a lot darker. And my cousin is very pale with natural blonde hair. So I guess thats why we were surprised.

Jax,

Here's a secret...if you look at the color of her fingers...right above her cuticles...that's typically a good indicator of what her final complexion will be. I didn't believe it either until I did a test on my 2nd son, Gavin. I checked out right above his cuticles...a few days after his birth...it was darker than my complexion or my ex husbands...but sure enough his complexion is true to the color of his cuticles...he doesn't look like either one of us...Gavin looks straight Koolie...but is the dead stamp of his older cousin... Genes are an AMAZING thing!

Bless,

Gill

P.S.- I hope I didn't offend anyone with this tip!

P.P.S- Don't forget to post the pink dress picture...I love Baby girl's clothes...they are so cute...dem come in like dollie!

I usually look at the tips of their ears...works every time...I've had friends and family whose kinds of come out darn near white but when you look at the tips of their ears you're like...ooookkkk...you WILL darken up!! LOL