London Embassy Graduates Thread

[Alison 0]

Well 3 more days till my container arrives, 4 till I fly out.

Alison.

[rebeccajo 14]

Well, Alison ought to be here by now!!

[Euro 3]

Well, Alison ought to be here by now!!

Well i hope she brought her Brollie

[rebeccajo 14]

Well, Alison ought to be here by now!!

Well i hope she brought her Brollie

You got that right!

[TracyTN 237]

And Sarah (sukie)'s mum got here yesterday for a visit, I hope she updates us soon!!!

[shakysgirl 1]

My husband's father and his "old dear" are arriving on Sunday for a three week visit. My husband is so excited to show his father around where he is living and just to spend time with him in general. Besides seeing my father in law (of course) we are very excited for the suitcase filled with stuff we asked him to bring- my husband seriously intends to live on beans on toast (made with Warburtons!) for the first few days!

[crashandcari 0]

i guess we are officially london graduates having completed our process for the CR1... crash and jr arrive home for good tomorrow and then we wait until the time comes to remove their conditions !!!

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

Bleh. I hate paperwork. I've spent the best part of the afternoon finally sorting out my AOS paperwork. All I need to do is date the forms, get some passport photo's done and mail the forms.

I think they should give you a greencard simply for managing to get all this together and get it mailed off.

[StacySmith 0]

Well I feel like a million pounds has been lifted off my shoulders!! We finally sent off the AOS/EAD package yesterday!! And the waiting begins once again... lol

Oh well the K-1 wait was the worst, and now it's just smooth sailing!

God I love being married to the love of my life! (So what he doesn't like doin' the dishes or laundry! hahaha)

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

I know the feeling, Stacy. We were planning on getting our AOS sent off yesterday too. But getting my photo's took longer than we expected, and then I realised in the excitement I hadn't noted down the address for the Chicago lockbox. So we decided it wasn't meant to be yesterday. Hopefully we can get the paperwork sent off today or tomorrow, though.

And I can't wait!

[Alison 0]

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I haven't been online lately and yes everything is fine Well it's been a week now since I've been here, my brain seems to think or tell me that I'm just here for a week or two weeks when I'm not as you all know we're all here in the States for good.

Okay where do I start. Wednesday was the day I was mostly concentrating on really and not Thursday. My shipping container arrived at 7.15am where I had booked it for 9.30am which made things a lot easier. So my ex partner, his step brother and friend helped me to load the container which we got things done quicker. My daughter was at school and my son was with a neighbour. Anyway, the container left at 11.50am and my heart began to hurt a little seeing my things being taken away, so after that, I cleaned up the house, tried to pack things quicker and it just wasn't going right. I was rushing around so much trying to get so much done, then had to go out and do things and say goodbyes and so on. Moving to the hotel was fine and so on but we was all hot, I was trying to arrange my suitcases and bags again and the kids started to annoy me. I was just glad to get that day over and done with.

As for Thursday, we got to the airport alright, had to pay $25 for an overweight suitcase but we got all tha tpart sorted okay. Claire was alright with the lifts/elevators, she calls them the silly doors and went through security okay. We got on the plane alright and the ride was okay, some woman in the front of me was being a pain because all the way she had her chair/seat layed back in front of me and I was struggling to open my small suitcase to get to things. She and some other woman had a go at me because my son's feet was on the chair, he has special needs and trying to tell him to put his feet down was a bit hard, she said well try harder and I was about to deck her one but kept my temper. I was just glad to arrive at the airport loaded up with bags. I was nearly upset though because I needed my pushchair and couldn't handle the bags and Dominic to the Immigration room, Claire had her bag too but I got my pushchair. Went through immigration part, one officer passed my papers and passports on to another officer, then to another one and so on and I thought, what was the heck with this, it was like pass the parcel game. But we had to go into the lifts/elevators and Claire hates them and also the escalators. We had a lot of the immigration officers go with her which was fine but I had all these bags and suitcases and so on and thought, okay I need help here. Anyway we just waited on the other side of the building ready to be called and I asked one of the officers to help me with my suitcases and so on which they did. I was just glad to get to my other Gate, I was so hot and fed up, the kids getting on my nerves and so on. I was just glad to get the whole lot done. Everything went fine besides the kids playing up.

Claire started her school yesterday and loves it and gets on ever so well with everyone. One girl in the autistic class called Kelsey is very happy to see there's another girl so they've been getting on well with each other.

I shall be sending my social security form off sometime next week, hope this isn't too early to do this.

Alison.

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

Sorry I haven't been online lately and yes everything is fine Well it's been a week now since I've been here, my brain seems to think or tell me that I'm just here for a week or two weeks when I'm not as you all know we're all here in the States for good.

Tell me about it! I've been here 5 months now, and I think my minds still only starting to get around the fact that I'm here permanently, rather than for a visit. It's going to take me a long time to get my mind around it.

Sorry to hear the plane journey and airport was so stressful. But hey, you're here now.

Didn't get the AOS package off yesterday, we were 10 minutes too late to mail it. Bleh. But hopefully today I'll be able to change my signature and profile.

*crosses fingers*

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

Yaaaay! I finally got it in to the mail with certified delivery.

*goes to update profile*

[StacySmith 0]

YAY Huffy!! Feels great doesn't it? lol

Also, Congrats Alison on making it safely with your family!

Stacy

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

It really does feel good to have it over with. I couldn't sleep the night we tried to send it but were a little too late. But had no trouble yesterday. So I guess it was a huge weight off my mind.