APRIL '08 Vermont K-1 Filers

[Steph25 0]

Sounds like a plan. Are you going to be in Raleigh or one of the lil citys around?

[Susita 175]

Yay congrats to the new approvals! A couple more of your out of us May-ers way LOL!!

Suzy - So your RFE made me look at our paperwork and looks like we'll be getting it too :S boo to holdups....

Steph - Raleigh! That's where I'm going as well!! Maybe we can meet up with Steelman and take some of his beers! LOL

<3 Jen

Jen ~ I'm sorry 2 hear that. It's an easy form to fill out though. You check NO and then sign your name. LOL Then you mail it back. I doubt it will hold it up that much.

[Jenni and Bo 0]

Steph - Our apartment is right in Raleigh...he works in Cary, so we're about a 5-7 min drive to all the malls in Cary

Suzy - Yeah, I am happy that it was something small for you next step is NOA2 Hope it's soon hun!

<3 Jen

[Poacher 0]

Jen,

I will be hitting the boat ramp at Farrington Point at Jordan Lake at 3:00 tomorrow. Cooler will be full and beers cold. My ex-wife somehow set up an afternoon with 10 of her friends. I am the only boat going. How does that work. No, actually we have a private beach we go to and hang out at while I take everyone skiing. Unfortunately it is my exes friends. Not much in the way of eye candy. Maybe I will drink more. Life is good. Sunday, there will be 3 of my friends out there with their boats, plus mine. I stay busy all day. I have the Mastercraft skiboat, so everyone wants to ski, tube, and wakeboard behind mine. It will be a fun few hours. Hey, next spring, lets go to the lake. About 20 minutes from your apartment to that boat ramp. We do really have our own redneck yacht club. You have to spend a day with the coolers, grill, and stereos to truly appreciate the trash that we are. I also take a water trampoline out there. The kids love it at first, then the drunk guys get beer muscles and play king of the mountain. The only person that has dethroned me is my ex-wifes new husband. He is a damn ex-jarhead too. I hate Marines.

Language difficulties:

I have been going to Ukraine for years. I have been slowly learning Russian. Bought Rossetta-Stone. It is good. All of the girls that I dated could speak some English. Always had fun trying to decipher and figure things out. There were many funny moments. Way too many. Some are for private converstation. Then I met Julia. She did not speak a word of English. I then learned how limited my Russian really was. Last September I put her in English classes. She is still a long ways away from being even able to get around. She does not have to work and she will be spending her time with me travelling and seeing the US while I make sales calls. I figure being immersed in the culture and the language she will be OK on her own after a while. I do speak some Russian and I am actually taking a Russian class every Saturday morning. I do speak some German (high school), Japanese (Marines), and Tagali(Marines). Spent 28 months in the far east. I can't wait to speak with her in front of other people and they have no clue that we are talking about them. Not that I am an incosiderat or shallow person, just honest.

About marrying a non-American:

My mom is still not happy with it. She knows that I have been traveling for years going to Ukraine. She knows why. She is old school. My sister even went for our marriage ceremony in May. Momma would not go, something about the Iron Curtain and growing up in the Cold War. My father did not go because my mother was too scared to go. My ex-wife is really concerned about my finances. She is worried that I will get cleaned out. Not a problem. I have planning this for years. I have S corporations and my 3 sons college funds in their name. My house is paid off and I bought it with a VA loan. Under the Soldiers and Sailors Act of 1943, only the veteran can have any claims to the property or equity it earns. That has been challenged, but not overturned in NC. 2 of my best friends are family law lawyers and have researched it for me. I only own my house, that can't be touched, 2 boats, 3 4 wheelers. I do not even own a truck. That is under an S corp. I do have a lot of investments, so she could only get a percentage of how much they increase once she is here. I would be even more skeptical if I had married an American woman. My Julia just does not know what she has fallen into. She loves me for me. If it is a GC scam, oh well, she will be sent packing and I will be on the next plane to Kiev. Seriously. I love my wife, AKA fiancee, but I always prepare for the worst. My friends give me ####### about the whole thing. Especially their wives. They want to know what is wrong with American women. Nothing, there are some good ones, but I found what I think is the best women in the world. I also get grief because my Julia looks like she is 18. Just another benefit of my efforts. Those who have been to the FSU know what I am talking about.

Jen,

I went to Cary High School across from the mall. When I was little the mall was a cornfield. We used to launch model rockets there. Cary was on 3,000 people then. Now 120,000. After the Corps and NC State I moved out by Clayton to get away from the yankees and closer to the rednecks.

Some of you that might read all of my text might not like it. I am just a country boy who has made it in life through hard work. I am far from PC. I own assault weapons, drink beer, hunt, and not arrogant in everything that I do, but confident in my abilities. Just remember, we are all here to get the one that we love by our side. Let's get approvals and speady interviews.

Do they have good fire insurance in Vermont? Just asking. Damn, I hope the adjudicators don't read that.

[enchantedtikiman 0]

Those who have been to the FSU know what I am talking about.

[Steph25 0]

Ricky stays in Apex which is right next to Cary LOL

[GrahamandMegan 1]

Not wanting to rain on the party of those still waiting. Kim and Suzy in particular. We got our medical date for Tuesday after talking to the nicest lady ever at the Washington Visa Office. Just keeping you all up to date.

Congrats on the new approvals too!!!!!

Thanks Graham & Megan!! How's the UK treating you guys? I want to go someday. I think when me and Luis are no longer poor (LOL) we are going to go to Europe. He has friends in Spain and Belgium. I don't have any friends in Europe but I want to GOOO!! I want to do a whole summer just wandering around Europe. Obviously I need to go to the UK or I won't be happy

You don't want to go to the whole of the UK, you just want to come to Scotland. Not that there is much wrong with England except it's full of English people!!!!!!!! Only kidding English friends on here........ I'm under strict instructions when I go for my medical to make sure that I take loads of pictures for Megan of London, she really wants to go but as usual with this process, it just never goes to plan does it?!?! Come on VSC get your adjudication hats on and get all these April filers out of the system, NOW!!!!!!!

[KimandRuss 0]

No offense, but a couple of you sound like you found a good shoe store overseas ...that takes returns. Whatever floats your boat tho.

Graham, I was delighted with London's architecture and took loads of pics (errr from the top of a bus mostly because I broke my leg and was on crutches )! I have them online...I will upload some to my server for Megan and send ya a link. Some of the people on the tube were just so rude! And the folks drive like madmen on those roads downtown! I've not been to Scotland...yet... but i've got a dear friend from Edinburgh and would love to see the countryside and castles there some day. Russell would love to go to Austria as well... might have made it had the VWP kept working. I know... so not funny!

Well... off to the office... and trying not to check email all day. Not sure my heart can take it!

Have a great Friday April. Happy things to all who wait!

[Susita 175]

No offense, but a couple of you sound like you found a good shoe store overseas ...that takes returns. Whatever floats your boat tho.

Graham, I was delighted with London's architecture and took loads of pics (errr from the top of a bus mostly because I broke my leg and was on crutches )! I have them online...I will upload some to my server for Megan and send ya a link. Some of the people on the tube were just so rude! And the folks drive like madmen on those roads downtown! I've not been to Scotland...yet... but i've got a dear friend from Edinburgh and would love to see the countryside and castles there some day. Russell would love to go to Austria as well... might have made it had the VWP kept working. I know... so not funny!

Well... off to the office... and trying not to check email all day. Not sure my heart can take it!

Have a great Friday April. Happy things to all who wait!

LOL I love you Kim, you make me laugh

I'm so jealous that you went to EUROPE and especially NZ, because if I wasn't marrying Luis I would be marrying Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords! I absolutely LOVE that man.... it's business time, haha

[enchantedtikiman 0]

My girl is sooooo happy to hear the approval news

[HiTech 0]

Suzy wrote

Thanks Graham & Megan!! How's the UK treating you guys? I want to go someday.

But then you would have to learn a new language.

Dale

Edited August 8, 2008 by HiTech

[brian87 0]

No offense, but a couple of you sound like you found a good shoe store overseas ...that takes returns. Whatever floats your boat tho.

I knew the guy's locker room talk would generate a response.

Kim, I am just thankful that you took the high road.

Brian

[SterlingGirl 1]

So does anyone in here know the deal with the NVC? Jim and I were approved on the 1st of August, which was a Friday, so I could understand if they hadn't sent our file until Monday, the 4th . . . it's now the 8th, and I've called the automated center where you enter the 10 digits of your receipt number, and as of about a minute ago, they still haven't received our file. Is that normal? It can't have taken that long for it to reach NH from Vermont.

[kornyhiv 0]

So does anyone in here know the deal with the NVC? Jim and I were approved on the 1st of August, which was a Friday, so I could understand if they hadn't sent our file until Monday, the 4th . . . it's now the 8th, and I've called the automated center where you enter the 10 digits of your receipt number, and as of about a minute ago, they still haven't received our file. Is that normal? It can't have taken that long for it to reach NH from Vermont.

Hello SterlinGirl,

From what they told me on the NVC they dont put the K1 Visa on the automatic phone service, talk to a person, and ask them directly about your case.

Why havent you done that already? being that you are anxious and wondering why there are no updates about your case?

[Ferociter 0]

So does anyone in here know the deal with the NVC? Jim and I were approved on the 1st of August, which was a Friday, so I could understand if they hadn't sent our file until Monday, the 4th . . . it's now the 8th, and I've called the automated center where you enter the 10 digits of your receipt number, and as of about a minute ago, they still haven't received our file. Is that normal? It can't have taken that long for it to reach NH from Vermont.

As kornyhiv mentioned, talk to a live person (option 1 then option 5 if I recall correctly), I was approved on 7/30, NVC received it on 8/1 and shipped it out to the embassy on 8/5 (well technically 8/6, but the offical date was 8/5). it helps if you call early in the morning around 8am, I got right through without waiting.

Good luck!

Tom