November 2009 filers

[douglas1 0]

K1 = APPROVED!!

[that_girl 9]

K1 = APPROVED!!

Congrats!! Great news!

[doghandler 2]

And another 2 past the finishing line! Justar and Douglas - don't it feel good! I can feel your radiance from Scotland!

Mrs Megger and Ewan - you two are the new Marie and Pierre Curie, partners in love AND science! Atom splitting fascinating. Did you meet in a lab?

Mr Dog appears to have the cheek of the devil in him tonight. He just told me that he is so excited at the fact that there is now only 26 days left where he has to cook his own dinner and iron his own shirt. He then went on to claim he has booked the local prostitutes motel for our honeymoon. They have recently expanded and you can now rent a trailer for an hour in their car park!

In case any of you fancy this classy joint for your own honeymoon, it's called The H&B Motel, but the cops call it The Hump and Bump. There's romance for ya!

[Crissie 0]

Gosh, I'm still lagging behind here. We're still waiting for packet 4.

Congrats on all the approved visas though!

[Drue & Naddy 0]

We got approvedddddddd!!! :dance: The interview was very smooth, he just asked me a couple questions and that was it.

Thank you guys for the support I wouldn't make without you guys!!!

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo finally Juliana :dance: :dance: :dance:

such a relief huh?

K1 = APPROVED!!

yay :dance: gratz gratz gratz

Gosh, I'm still lagging behind here. We're still waiting for packet 4.

Congrats on all the approved visas though!

awwwww you had bad luck there cos of your NOA1 delay . But you will get it soon and once you are state side, you will forget how much time it took you to get here and you will feel as you have been here since forever

And another 2 past the finishing line! Justar and Douglas - don't it feel good! I can feel your radiance from Scotland!

Mrs Megger and Ewan - you two are the new Marie and Pierre Curie, partners in love AND science! Atom splitting fascinating. Did you meet in a lab?

Mr Dog appears to have the cheek of the devil in him tonight. He just told me that he is so excited at the fact that there is now only 26 days left where he has to cook his own dinner and iron his own shirt. He then went on to claim he has booked the local prostitutes motel for our honeymoon. They have recently expanded and you can now rent a trailer for an hour in their car park!

In case any of you fancy this classy joint for your own honeymoon, it's called The H&B Motel, but the cops call it The Hump and Bump. There's romance for ya!

Don't tell him bout the whip you bought especially for when you move

That's great that you can start looking right away! It's going to be a party night around here when Ewan finally gets his EAD. He has a job waiting for him here in the same lab where I work, so we'll be together ALL DAY! In a year, I suppose I won't be as excited about that prospect as I am now...

Mrs. D, congrats on the visa! Close the curtains and have some naughty touching of it, like our dear Anwesha And I can't WAIT to hear the story of Evelyn's goodbye.

OMG, 24 hours together,

We found today my wedding ring . Don't have it yet, had to resize it. But will be ready for Friday, wedding on Saturday

[arwilson80 0]

2 weeks still to go till your interview and you're gonna get stung on the visa price hike due to the fault of NCV by sending your file to Dublin by mistake. Doesn't that make you mad?

Actually... Not really. In fact i guess i couldn't really care what it costs (just as long as i have the money for it ), just as long as i get there.

[thatbritishlass 2]

Actually... Not really. In fact i guess i couldn't really care what it costs (just as long as i have the money for it ), just as long as i get there.

I agree actually. I was REALLY mad at first, but then realised we've gotten lucky on the financial front in other areas, and that ultimately once I get the big YES it won't matter

One week to go til V-day for me.....I keep checking and rechecking my Monica-from-Friends style, excessively organised folder just in case I've forgotten something!!

[arwilson80 0]

I agree actually. I was REALLY mad at first, but then realised we've gotten lucky on the financial front in other areas, and that ultimately once I get the big YES it won't matter

Exactly. The 'Yes' at the interview is what ultimately matters. Everything else is just a 'hiccup' along the way.

One week to go til V-day for me.....I keep checking and rechecking my Monica-from-Friends style, excessively organised folder just in case I've forgotten something!!

Two weeks for me. I haven't started the physical checking of the folder yet but i run through it in my head.

BTW [everyone]: Is there a 'sticky' list of things that need to be done, people who need to be informed (of whatever... e.g. banks, student loans, 'tax man',...), etc, etc on here?

[that_girl 9]

And another 2 past the finishing line! Justar and Douglas - don't it feel good! I can feel your radiance from Scotland!

Mrs Megger and Ewan - you two are the new Marie and Pierre Curie, partners in love AND science! Atom splitting fascinating. Did you meet in a lab?

Mr Dog appears to have the cheek of the devil in him tonight. He just told me that he is so excited at the fact that there is now only 26 days left where he has to cook his own dinner and iron his own shirt. He then went on to claim he has booked the local prostitutes motel for our honeymoon. They have recently expanded and you can now rent a trailer for an hour in their car park!

In case any of you fancy this classy joint for your own honeymoon, it's called The H&B Motel, but the cops call it The Hump and Bump. There's romance for ya!

@ Mrs. D: Awww, that Mr. D is such a keeper, eh?! Bring your own sheets!

We did meet in a lab, actually! We were identifying and cataloging bugs, though, rather than splitting atoms. Less chance of either of us dying from radiation exposure this way, I reckon!

Gosh, I'm still lagging behind here. We're still waiting for packet 4.

Congrats on all the approved visas though!

@ Chrissie: You'll get there, sweetie! You're turn is just around the corner! Good on ya for your patience; it will pay off a hundred fold!

We found today my wedding ring . Don't have it yet, had to resize it. But will be ready for Friday, wedding on Saturday

@ Naddy: Woo! Congrats on that! I hope you'll show us a picture!

I agree actually. I was REALLY mad at first, but then realised we've gotten lucky on the financial front in other areas, and that ultimately once I get the big YES it won't matter

One week to go til V-day for me.....I keep checking and rechecking my Monica-from-Friends style, excessively organised folder just in case I've forgotten something!!

@ Jess : Darling, you are so cute! It's coming up - and don't stress, you'll knock 'em dead!

Exactly. The 'Yes' at the interview is what ultimately matters. Everything else is just a 'hiccup' along the way.

Two weeks for me. I haven't started the physical checking of the folder yet but i run through it in my head.

BTW [everyone]: Is there a 'sticky' list of things that need to be done, people who need to be informed (of whatever... e.g. banks, student loans, 'tax man',...), etc, etc on here?

@ ARWilson: You, too, will be fine! No worries! As for "sticky" list, I don't know of one, but Ewan seems to be having a heckuva time getting his student loan thingies to come here instead of sent to his mum in Oz... Be SURE to come with your birth certificate and a copy of vaccination records. For me, with the bank, I just sent them a little online message thingy when I went to NZ, and that was sufficient for them, it seems. You can wire money to a joint account pretty easily, once you have one.

My family and a few friends from home are coming here to Miami to have a little, casual wedding celebration with us this weekend (before all the oil hits our FL beaches!) which is nice, but a little stressful! I'm baking our "wedding cake" tonight, in preparation for the picnic "reception" on Saturday. Hopefully we can get some nice photos out of it, for posterity's sake

[JohnAnwesha 4]

Hey lovely people,

Hope everyone's making progress and inching closer to closing chapter 1 of this process.I wish everyone great luck.

Naddy it is awesome that you can work right away,and I wish you good luck in finding just the perfect job to go with it and yaay for your wedding ring too

I am getting so impatient, its the last few days and they are just crawling.Baah! I keep having these weird dreams,crazy.Like today I saw John giving me a bunch of yummy candies from inside the pedigree dog food packet .Okay no one should even try and interpret them.

I was telling him the other day,seeing everything after a gap of 10 months will be very surreal and emotional and he better put up with my Miss Priss side .We Indians like the drama ,trust me !

Well good wishes everybody.

[JohnAnwesha 4]

Oh and Megan this question is more you.Regarding filing paper work for the AOS part, you said in one of your earlier posts that tax transcripts were the way to go.But is that a must,or does it just make it easier?Can we not sue the same documents we used now for the tax part ?

[thatbritishlass 2]

BTW [everyone]: Is there a 'sticky' list of things that need to be done, people who need to be informed (of whatever... e.g. banks, student loans, 'tax man',...), etc, etc on here?

I haven't seen one, but there should be one, and I'm thinking of starting one for the Brits. I did, however, find a very useful emigration checklist when I was looking at foreign exchange brokers for transferring the wedding fund:

http://www.moneycorp.com/pdf/MC0018_Checklist_4pp_A5.pdf

Things I've thought of so far:

• Student Loan (boooo) - they have a form you fill out once a year and they calculate your repayments based on income. Bad news - threshold is lower in the US. Good news - if they do it once a year my income will be zero so I'll have a year's repayment freeze
  
• Council Tax
  
• Inland Revenue - I think it's a P85, and apparently you can get an income tax refund (hooray!)
  
• Banks
  
• Royal Mail (if you're getting mail forwarding)
  
• Utilities companies - phone, gas, electric, water, etc.
  
• Landlord!
  
• Doctor/NHS - get a handover file (as a medical war zone I am reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly going to miss the NHS...)
  
• Work (obviously!)
  

Feel free to add!! I know some of these are UK-specific but a lot of them are global...

BTW - and this IS UK specific, lol - did any of you Brits store your stuff at Goulds while you were in the Embassy?

My hostel has luggage storage but I want to take my phone with me 1) for Google Maps and 2) so I can call everyone I know the SECOND I get done

[that_girl 9]

Oh and Megan this question is more you.Regarding filing paper work for the AOS part, you said in one of your earlier posts that tax transcripts were the way to go.But is that a must,or does it just make it easier?Can we not sue the same documents we used now for the tax part ?

It's not a must, I just found it a lot easier to send the one page of tax transcript per year as opposed to ten pages of photocopied forms and support documents. The transcripts are free and come super-fast, and then you don't have to go digging through folders to find tax info from 2007 (I'm definitely not an awesome organizational queen like our dear Miss Jess). But either way is acceptable. My dad (co-sponsor) sent copies of his tax forms/documents from last year, so I guess technically we had both ways in there.

[doghandler 2]

Hey lovely people,

Hope everyone's making progress and inching closer to closing chapter 1 of this process.I wish everyone great luck.

Naddy it is awesome that you can work right away,and I wish you good luck in finding just the perfect job to go with it and yaay for your wedding ring too

I am getting so impatient, its the last few days and they are just crawling.Baah! I keep having these weird dreams,crazy.Like today I saw John giving me a bunch of yummy candies from inside the pedigree dog food packet .Okay no one should even try and interpret them.

I was telling him the other day,seeing everything after a gap of 10 months will be very surreal and emotional and he better put up with my Miss Priss side .We Indians like the drama ,trust me !

Well good wishes everybody.

Not having seen your John for 10 months. That is something. Drama? I would have thrown all my toys out my pram ages ago!

Therefore, when you do set eyes on each other - drama? - I expect no less than a full-on Bollywood singing and dancing routine at Charlotte airport, complete with fireworks!

[A + M 29]

Hello everybody ! I know I' m not here as often as I was BUT congratulations with the visa approvals, Mrs. Doghandler and Justar !!! I' m so glad you all made it and now what is left for you is the POE and the lovely reunion with your loved ones !!!

From us : We are busy planning our wedding day, running around the stores, checking out websites, getting stressed and nervous BUT always IN LOVE. We are getting married early in July in NYC. We are planning on ordering the wedding rings somewhere this week and hopefully all the rest it' s gonna be done soon too.

I hope you are all happy and excited ! I know Anwesha must be and I wonder what is Naddy doing ? Megan is so ahead of us all !