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Hi,

Is there anyone here living in San Antonio, TX. My wife is new here and would like to meet some friends. She is Thai so hopefully she can find friends from Thailand or southeast Asia.

thanks,

Randy

3-5-2011: I-129F Sent

3-9-2011: NOA1

6-24-2011: NOA2

6-30-2011: NOA2 Hard Copy

7-19-2011: Received Case Number from NVC

08-08-2011: Sent Packet 3 to Embassy

09-12-2011: Received Packet 4 Instructions

09-28-2011: Interview: Approved

10-06-2011: Point of Entry

11-03-2011: Married

AOS:

11-17-2011: Filed AOS Packet

12-09-2011: AOS Check Cashed

01-01-2012: Biometrics

01-31-2012: Received EAD

07-20-2012: AOS Approved

08-01-2012: Received Green Card

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Andy and Pui   16

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Sorry, we do not live near you. I can tell you a few things Pui has done here this past 7 months that she has been here. Is there a Thai buddhist temple where you live? Pui met a few friends through the temple here. Another thing is from the local school districts you can take English as a second language for free and she met a lady from the Philipines and a lady from Laos. Those are a few things that helped Pui. I am not sure if those are options for where you live or if you tried them already.

I see we are both November filiers for AOS and got the EAD around the same week.

AOS Journey

11-04-2011 sent AOS to Chicago lockbox

11-07-2011 delivered

11-08-2011 Date on text messages but did not receive until 11-22-2011

11-23-2011 Check cashed.

11-25-2011 Hard copies of NOA1s

12-06-2012 Pui's Brother unexpectly passes away and we make an info pass appointment and receive an emergancy AP so she can return home. Pui leaves for Thailand for 2 weeks.

12-06-2012 Get a text message and email that she received an RFE

12-12-2012 RFE for original birth certificate. I swear we sent it along with a certificate translation of it.

12-20-2012 Pui returns from Thailand.

12-21-2012 We send the RFE back for with original birth certificate along with a new certificate of translation(I had to wait for her to return for her to sign)

12-26-2012 text and email they have received the RFE.

12-29-2012 Appointment for biometrics is 01-23-2012

01-13-2012 AP is approved.

01-23-2012 Biometrics appointment. Later during the evening the text and email saying the EAD is approved.

01-31-2012 EAD/AP combo card arrives.

05-22-2012 Email and text card is in production!

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TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   45,312

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Check the phone book for Asian stores, temples or churches, social groups...

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Karee   4,190

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Be careful of some of the Thais you'll meet here. Some of them can be real b!tches. Some have the attitude of we were here first, so you're second class. Most are not that way, but some are. At first my wife would cry about it. Now she tells them to F off in the nice Thai way that they do.

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Be careful of some of the Thais you'll meet here. Some of them can be real b!tches. Some have the attitude of we were here first, so you're second class. Most are not that way, but some are. At first my wife would cry about it. Now she tells them to F off in the nice Thai way that they do.

This was my wife's exact experience as well...

“Acquire the spirit of peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” Pablo Cassals

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Karee Grand Master

Karee   4,190

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The good news is that once they get in that weird Asian circle, They are good here for life. It's almost like some weird fratnenity. What cracks me up is that she can walk away tomorrow and not care.

There's nothing like a Thai girl that has been offended. My wife's best friend is in Phoenix.

Tell her to keep on keeping on.

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