UPS service to NVC Missouri

[Captain Oates 911]

Excuse the pun... but keep us "posted" as to how you get it there in the end... Will it be royal mail? Maybe fedex it to your other half in usa... and then have him/her post it USPS once it arrives...??

Monday report - Carolyn has allowed me in from the doghouse. UPS still have not contacted me so I will see what their ever changing excuses are today.

I asked them to simply stick it in the mail at their depot in Missouri city where the check now is - that way it would reach NVC tomorrow. They refused even though I paid them £32 ($64) to take it

We are both resident in the UK and the whole system seems to be USA-centric so it only works if one of you is in the US and one is abroad.

That has cost us many weeks so far as we started January 9th...

Good news is that the Halifax bank here are sending a new USD check out today for $70 so I will possibly be able to mail it snail mail tomorrow as no international couriers can deliver to a PO box in the US....

As at Friday night, the US customs still had not released it as they need someone to fax forms to the US to say what is in it - even though they have opened it and told UPS that there is only a check and a remittance advice. I have a good mind to fax them and tell em that the check and remittance advice in their hands is actually a parrot in a cage

Surreal situation, a bit like when they ask you to state that you are not entering the USA to overthrow the government - yes/no

I am constantly fighting my personal problem - which is that I tend to feel arrogant and superior and that so many people are so stupid - but this lot are just feeding my disability and making it worse !

alan

[Erica 0]

Monday report - Carolyn has allowed me in from the doghouse. UPS still have not contacted me so I will see what their ever changing excuses are today.

I asked them to simply stick it in the mail at their depot in Missouri city where the check now is - that way it would reach NVC tomorrow. They refused even though I paid them £32 ($64) to take it

We are both resident in the UK and the whole system seems to be USA-centric so it only works if one of you is in the US and one is abroad.

That has cost us many weeks so far as we started January 9th...

Good news is that the Halifax bank here are sending a new USD check out today for $70 so I will possibly be able to mail it snail mail tomorrow as no international couriers can deliver to a PO box in the US....

As at Friday night, the US customs still had not released it as they need someone to fax forms to the US to say what is in it - even though they have opened it and told UPS that there is only a check and a remittance advice. I have a good mind to fax them and tell em that the check and remittance advice in their hands is actually a parrot in a cage

Surreal situation, a bit like when they ask you to state that you are not entering the USA to overthrow the government - yes/no

I am constantly fighting my personal problem - which is that I tend to feel arrogant and superior and that so many people are so stupid - but this lot are just feeding my disability and making it worse !

alan

You could do that, but it's quite possible they'd believe you and you'd be further up the creek now without any paddles, a hole in the boat and piranhas circling the boat.

Wouldn't it be possible to get yourself an unofficial agent in the US where you can send all the papers to in advance so they can send it to the NVC at your mark? Though, the only thing that needs to go fast after this is the IV bill, and there's no shortcut for it anyway. Eh. Still sorry for you, but confident it will eventually all be okay

[Captain Oates 911]

You could do that, but it's quite possible they'd believe you and you'd be further up the creek now without any paddles, a hole in the boat and piranhas circling the boat.

Wouldn't it be possible to get yourself an unofficial agent in the US where you can send all the papers to in advance so they can send it to the NVC at your mark? Though, the only thing that needs to go fast after this is the IV bill, and there's no shortcut for it anyway. Eh. Still sorry for you, but confident it will eventually all be okay

Thanks chucky - I am going to just forget the whole UPS thing and mail the new check snail mail tomorrow - well royal mail 'airsure' 3 day service which i know is 10 days in reallity. Yes it can take 10 days but I reckon the 485 will be there before the 230 so that's ok..

Yes i will courier the actual 230 in a few weeks time as i reckon that does not go to a PO Box number - presumably new hampshire can sign for that...

I wont be using UPS though - they are unbelievably useless.... anyway it's a good job its the $70 they messed up and not the big one for the IV

I wouldnt really tell them that the check they are holding in their hands, from my letter they opened, is a 'parrot in a cage' , as I know they would get really confused and need psychological counselling and sue me for the cost of it as soon as I arrived

grrrrrrr

ok serenity and patience is the objective - i shall go and pig out on ginger biscuits

[Captain Oates 911]

and Finally !

UPS refuses to mail (US postal service 50 cents), the fee check to NVC who are just round the corner from where the letter is at this moment:

They want to charge me another $64 to bring it back to england so I am telling them to destroy it

I will get another check from my bank and remail the fee bill via Royal Mail

My bank say I can 'stop' the check that was sent and recredit it to my account for no fee ! - I don't have to return it

3 minutes ago I rang NVC and my IV fee bill has been generated !

the sun is shining after a month of heavy rain and Carolyn has forgiven me for mailing to a PO box in the USA and has bought me a box of chocolates..

all is now at peace with the world (until the next stage in this gruesome process)

I will use fedex ($110) for the DS-230 form itself (not the fee), as their address is not a PO box and VJers keep referring to sending via couriers

It is absolutely critical that I have visa in hand for 5th November as I am 60 on the 7th of November so I wont get medicaire at 65 unless I have been there 5 years on the 7th november in 5 years - also if I arrive before 4th November I will get a 2 year conditional green card but if I arrive on the 5th it will be a 10 year unconditional..

So hitting the 5th november is crucial and I have a 2 day window to get this right from both perspectives.

I don't know how long it is from interview to visa in hand - 2 years ago with K1 it was the morning following the interview but I have heard that is longer now...

roll on visa time !

alan

[Mononoke28 135]

Oh I think you'll get your visa before November for sure. I'm glad things are working out for you.

[Captain Oates 911]

Oh I think you'll get your visa before November for sure. I'm glad things are working out for you.

Yes still optimistic- drove 55 miles to my old house - no cheque - then to my bank to hand in the letter canceling the cheque which went with UPS. They then spent exactly one hour on the phone to their international division and then said there would be a £12 charge to cancel it (not nil) and I would have to contact international myself and my letter was not necessary. They also said I had not been in the Lancashire branch yesterday and that the branch had not contacted international, and all the references I had been given were wrong (when I didn't go in !). They gave me a number to contact international. Just arrived back home after a 2 hour drive and tried the number - its a non-existent number !

Anyway I have decided to not cancel the original cheque as they are stupid enough to cancel the replacement cheque instead and then NVC would accuse me of bouncing canceled banker's drafts on them. I will cancel it after 'case complete'

Steeling myself for the 4 hour drive tomorrow to see if my bank has sent the cheque to my old address as they say they will (they refuse to send it to my new address even though that is accepted as the new address on file)

I am totally exhausted with all this business that I have been working on flat out for a week - all to get $70 to a PO box in America - - why cant NVC accept a credit card over the phone like a normal organization would ?

That would have saved me a week of heartache and $80 in petrol and 2 cheques for $70 and bank charges and $64 to UPS and two 4 hour return drives

just having a beer.....