Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 4)

[*JG* 2]

I chose to travel back to pick him up and bring him home with me. It worked out so well. I made sure he had everything he might need to leave with. The night before, we had a huge party with all the guys he worked with and a his friends....It was me and like 35 guys. It was crazy. We go to say all our goodbye's. I helped guide him through the every increasingly difficult check-in process including checking baggage, security, immigration, filling out forms on the plane, changing planes in Miami, (had I not been there and asked, Immigration there would not have taken his brown envelope, nor interviewed him---IDIOTS!!!!), and navigating the St. Louis airport.

He did just fine at the interview by himself.

[DonnaJay 0]

Jay Donna,

What bank to do you use? $25 dollars is kinda steep for a letter. I have Wachovia and I had to get a letter when I brought my house and it was no charge. Hopefully they won't charge for this letter.

I use Wachovia, also. The guy there had me fill out a form that was made for visa applicants. After I filled it out he took it and told me the letter would come to me in the mail. He did not take any money from me while I was in there. Maybe the money will come out of my checking account?

[^KK^ 3]

Jay Donna,

What bank to do you use? $25 dollars is kinda steep for a letter. I have Wachovia and I had to get a letter when I brought my house and it was no charge. Hopefully they won't charge for this letter.

I use Wachovia, also. The guy there had me fill out a form that was made for visa applicants. After I filled it out he took it and told me the letter would come to me in the mail. He did not take any money from me while I was in there. Maybe the money will come out of my checking account?

Oh boy. Did they say how long this is suppose to take "in the mail"?

[Minfay 0]

Being at that interview was the only thing that ever mattered to me. Because I knew I wanted to be there we went 11 months without seeing each other prior to the interview.....it was that important to the both of us. What happened at that interview was going to determine the path our lives were going to take.

That being said, I knew I couldn't fly back with him because I was just there for the interview. I too got all the Immigration & Customs forms from the flight attendants and filled them out for him and told him to copy EXACTLY what I wrote. He had a direct flight to Chicago so there were no other flights that I had to worry about him catching. Of course the DORK forgot the forms that I gave him so the people sitting with him helped him fill everything out

[^KK^ 3]

Being at that interview was the only thing that ever mattered to me. Because I knew I wanted to be there we went 11 months without seeing each other prior to the interview.....it was that important to the both of us. What happened at that interview was going to determine the path our lives were going to take.

That being said, I knew I couldn't fly back with him because I was just there for the interview. I too got all the Immigration & Customs forms from the flight attendants and filled them out for him and told him to copy EXACTLY what I wrote. He had a direct flight to Chicago so there were no other flights that I had to worry about him catching. Of course the DORK forgot the forms that I gave him so the people sitting with him helped him fill everything out

This is such a good idea.

[MyDestinyAwaits 0]

Being at that interview was the only thing that ever mattered to me. Because I knew I wanted to be there we went 11 months without seeing each other prior to the interview.....it was that important to the both of us. What happened at that interview was going to determine the path our lives were going to take.

That being said, I knew I couldn't fly back with him because I was just there for the interview. I too got all the Immigration & Customs forms from the flight attendants and filled them out for him and told him to copy EXACTLY what I wrote. He had a direct flight to Chicago so there were no other flights that I had to worry about him catching. Of course the DORK forgot the forms that I gave him so the people sitting with him helped him fill everything out

i agree with every word you're saying. the interview is a major life-changing event for the both of us and i wanna be there.

anyone looking into plane tickets should consider using a charter company. i always use apple vacations or worry-free vacations and i've never paid more than $400. the ticket i just bought was only $241. i asked my travel agent if it was possible to buy a one-way charter flight and she said yes. i've even over-heard other people on the flights i've taken say that they bought their ticket a week prior to departure and only paid $150! charters aren't available at every airport though. i use st. louis and it's a 3 hour drive, but i save about $300 doing it.

[nyseness 0]

Being at that interview was the only thing that ever mattered to me. Because I knew I wanted to be there we went 11 months without seeing each other prior to the interview.....it was that important to the both of us. What happened at that interview was going to determine the path our lives were going to take.

That being said, I knew I couldn't fly back with him because I was just there for the interview. I too got all the Immigration & Customs forms from the flight attendants and filled them out for him and told him to copy EXACTLY what I wrote. He had a direct flight to Chicago so there were no other flights that I had to worry about him catching. Of course the DORK forgot the forms that I gave him so the people sitting with him helped him fill everything out

i agree with every word you're saying. the interview is a major life-changing event for the both of us and i wanna be there.

anyone looking into plane tickets should consider using a charter company. i always use apple vacations or worry-free vacations and i've never paid more than $400. the ticket i just bought was only $241. i asked my travel agent if it was possible to buy a one-way charter flight and she said yes. i've even over-heard other people on the flights i've taken say that they bought their ticket a week prior to departure and only paid $150! charters aren't available at every airport though. i use st. louis and it's a 3 hour drive, but i save about $300 doing it.

I also travel charter when I go. I travel from Chicago and the prices are always low.

[12/11/2006 0]

wow lots of great information given today!

jax, you've had some wonderful contributions and you'll be missed. congrats on the arrival of hubby's green card.

sarah times sound really hard for you right now. hang in there sweetie!

my mom went through the fiancee visa process over 30 years ago (philippines) and she's been absolutely brutal towards me lately. it's gotten to the point now where i try not to mention it or the conversation will turn sour. i know she means well, but it's stressing me out. i've never backtalked to my mother, and i wouldn't dare do it now even though i'm grown, but i've come really close to it a few times, lol. it really hurts to not have any support from my parents. i can't even bring the subject up with my dad and my mom has nothing positive to say either. i'm thankful that friends and other family members are happy for me.

how did you guys print off your text messages? i have verizon and i've tried to print them off but had no luck. then my phone broke and i had to get it replaced and lost all the text messages that i got from him. it really made me sad.

creating an email addy and "sending" emails to eachother is a great idea! i don't have any written evidence of support from him. he hates writing. if all our phone records are sufficient (i have a year's worth of them) to show that we maintain contact on a regular basis then i'd much rather just go with that.

I'm sorry to hear that you are going though a rough time with parents. I am going through the same thing with my family. They don't even know about the k-1 yet and I don't know what is going to happen when they find out. But at this point I am just like whatever. It is something that I feel really strong about and I am going to go ahead through with it. Like I said in a previous thread, its ashame that people prejudge but it is really nothing we can do about it. I say, don't feel sensitive about it. I know they are your parents and they want the best for you but they aren't sure that this isn't the best for you. Maybe she made a mistake but you don't necessarly have to make the same mistake. My grandmother went through the k-1 situation as a proposition in her previous years and of course the marriage didn't work out. I keep trying to explain to her that just because yours didn't work out doesn't mean that mines won't and besides, yours was a proposition mines isn't. So i say all of that to just say hang in there and there are many others going through the same thing that you are going through on here but some don't feel the need to express it. You'll be fine.

[Dwarf_Ogress 0]

Thanks to everyone for the words of advice and encouragement!

I could just about strangle Marlon right now, I got a text this morning full of excitement at my coming and how I can't back out now! Are all Jamaican men like that? One minute cautious and suspicious and the next carefree and excited? lol So needless to say I am teeter-tottering on going or not. My roommate gave me a good pep talk and offered to help me financially to be able to go...

*sigh*

[luvtravlin 0]

Thanks to everyone for the words of advice and encouragement!

I could just about strangle Marlon right now, I got a text this morning full of excitement at my coming and how I can't back out now! Are all Jamaican men like that? One minute cautious and suspicious and the next carefree and excited? lol So needless to say I am teeter-tottering on going or not. My roommate gave me a good pep talk and offered to help me financially to be able to go...

*sigh*

Giiiirrrrl, just WAIT till he gets here......this cautious and suspicious etc etc is nothing compared to every emotion and adjustment when he gets here !!!!

[luvtravlin 0]

anyone looking into plane tickets should consider using a charter company. i always use apple vacations or worry-free vacations and i've never paid more than $400. the ticket i just bought was only $241. i asked my travel agent if it was possible to buy a one-way charter flight and she said yes. i've even over-heard other people on the flights i've taken say that they bought their ticket a week prior to departure and only paid $150! charters aren't available at every airport though. i use st. louis and it's a 3 hour drive, but i save about $300 doing it.

When I book my clients (I too am a travel agent), to certain destinations charter flights are 80% of the time less expensive (if available) because they do not have the same airfare structure as all *major* airline carriers. They only operate in and out of certain airports to certain destinations and only a couple of destinations within the US.

Airfare changes daily and each and every market is completely different. When using a *major* airline, like Air Jamaica, American, Delta, etc etc....there are up to 150 differernt types of airfare in each market (meaning from one destination to another).

I would hope your travel agent would advise you as to whether a one way was more (or less) expensive than a roundtrip ticket. Just depends on the market and availability. I've done airfare for several VJ members and most were roundtrip airfares because they were less expensive at the time.

"Cheapest" airfare is on a 1st come 1st serve basis and when the least expensive airfare sells out it goes up to the next airfare, etc etc.

Hope that helps...

[Sonshyne 2]

I finally go our AOS package in the mail today Let the waiting begin

Edited July 11, 2007 by Sonshyne

[jamerican 2]

anyone looking into plane tickets should consider using a charter company. i always use apple vacations or worry-free vacations and i've never paid more than $400. the ticket i just bought was only $241. i asked my travel agent if it was possible to buy a one-way charter flight and she said yes. i've even over-heard other people on the flights i've taken say that they bought their ticket a week prior to departure and only paid $150! charters aren't available at every airport though. i use st. louis and it's a 3 hour drive, but i save about $300 doing it.

When I book my clients (I too am a travel agent), to certain destinations charter flights are 80% of the time less expensive (if available) because they do not have the same airfare structure as all *major* airline carriers. They only operate in and out of certain airports to certain destinations and only a couple of destinations within the US.

Airfare changes daily and each and every market is completely different. When using a *major* airline, like Air Jamaica, American, Delta, etc etc....there are up to 150 differernt types of airfare in each market (meaning from one destination to another).

I would hope your travel agent would advise you as to whether a one way was more (or less) expensive than a roundtrip ticket. Just depends on the market and availability. I've done airfare for several VJ members and most were roundtrip airfares because they were less expensive at the time.

"Cheapest" airfare is on a 1st come 1st serve basis and when the least expensive airfare sells out it goes up to the next airfare, etc etc.

Hope that helps...

I really don't think there are any charter flights from the Pacific NW to Jamaica...?? That would be nice...I can't find a ticket under $550. Right now the December RT tickets from here are a likkle over $900! Any help would be much appreciated.

[Dwarf_Ogress 0]

I finally go our AOS package in the mail today Let the waiting begin

YAY! Congrats, moving right along there!

Thanks to everyone for the words of advice and encouragement!

I could just about strangle Marlon right now, I got a text this morning full of excitement at my coming and how I can't back out now! Are all Jamaican men like that? One minute cautious and suspicious and the next carefree and excited? lol So needless to say I am teeter-tottering on going or not. My roommate gave me a good pep talk and offered to help me financially to be able to go...

*sigh*

Giiiirrrrl, just WAIT till he gets here......this cautious and suspicious etc etc is nothing compared to every emotion and adjustment when he gets here !!!!

I can only IMAGINE! lol

[Sonshyne 2]

I finally go our AOS package in the mail today Let the waiting begin

YAY! Congrats, moving right along there!

Thanks Sarah