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So as the POE, where ever we decided to land is that gonna be the office where we're going to go through? Say if our POE is San Francisco, but we're switching flight up to washington. Would our local immigration office that we have to deal with be in San Francisco?

I'm over here in Vancouver, WA. I wanted to take off from Portland, OR. -> San Francisco -> to pick up my fiancee. I don't wanna drive up to Seattle for 3 hrs. How would this POE work?

Cuz I know when we came over to the U.S, our POE was Seattle, WA. Then we flew accross the state to Portland which was closer to home in Vancouver. Our immigration office was Seattle. So everytime we have to deal with the immigration office, we would have to drive for a good 3 hrs. up to Seattle. Over the year I was thinking, why can't we just go through Portland, it was closer. So this lead me to these questions. Hope no one is lost yet

[jamie_naina 0]

Thanks a lot, Matt and MarkNAAm :-)

Matt, your fiancee is pretty excited about you coming to Thailand. I've talked to her quite often. Have a safe trip to Thailand ;-)

[Yodrak 7]

Mark,

No experience, since my wife didn't obtain her police report until after we knew when the interview would be, but an observation - it's the US consulate that decides how old the information that they will accept can be, not the Royal Thai Police Department. Any particular RTPD officer may or may not correctly know what consular policy is.

Yodrak

This is interesting about the Thai Police Report...

When I was in Thailand a couple months ago, I took AAm and we got the police report done. She received it in the mail on 27 Sept. At that time, I thought the police reports were good for 6 months.

Well, after receiving the police report, I read on here that the police report was only good for 3 months. So, last week when I was in BKK, I took AAm back to get another police report, because our current one would expire on 27 December and our interview will be after that by a month or so...most likely.

So back to the police station we go. However, when we got there, they told AAm that the police reports are still valid for 6 months though. So, we didn't get a new one.

Anybody else have any different experience?

Peace to all,

Mark -N- AAm

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Your place of residence determines which USCIS office serves you.

Yodrak

So as the POE, where ever we decided to land is that gonna be the office where we're going to go through? Say if our POE is San Francisco, but we're switching flight up to washington. Would our local immigration office that we have to deal with be in San Francisco?

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[payxibka 10,045]

So as the POE, where ever we decided to land is that gonna be the office where we're going to go through? Say if our POE is San Francisco, but we're switching flight up to washington. Would our local immigration office that we have to deal with be in San Francisco?

I'm over here in Vancouver, WA. I wanted to take off from Portland, OR. -> San Francisco -> to pick up my fiancee. I don't wanna drive up to Seattle for 3 hrs. How would this POE work?

Cuz I know when we came over to the U.S, our POE was Seattle, WA. Then we flew accross the state to Portland which was closer to home in Vancouver. Our immigration office was Seattle. So everytime we have to deal with the immigration office, we would have to drive for a good 3 hrs. up to Seattle. Over the year I was thinking, why can't we just go through Portland, it was closer. So this lead me to these questions. Hope no one is lost yet

What POE you might happen to use and local immigration office have no correlation to each other.....

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Your place of residence determines which USCIS office serves you.

Yodrak

Sweet thanx guys, maybe I should move across the bridge over to Portland for awhile Bummer, guess I still have to drive up to Seattle some more

But anyway I just found out that EVA airline is the fastest and the cheapest airline to fly with. Hopefully my fiancee obtain her Visa by then .

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Yodrak,

Good point.

We never actually received the package three...we just downloaded the forms from the web. TucsonBill or anyone else who actually received the Packet 3 from the consulate, is there information in that package which states how current the police report must be (3 or 6 months)? I can't find that information on the web...

Peace,

Mark

[mRx 16]

Thanks a lot, Matt and MarkNAAm :-)

Matt, your fiancee is pretty excited about you coming to Thailand. I've talked to her quite often. Have a safe trip to Thailand ;-)

yeah, my fiancee was telling me that someone off Visa4thai.com, knew me on VisaJourney. And yes she is very excited. Sometimes the excitement just overwhelms her, and she feels compelled to call me at 3am.

[TucsonBill 0]

Yodrak,

Good point.

We never actually received the package three...we just downloaded the forms from the web. TucsonBill or anyone else who actually received the Packet 3 from the consulate, is there information in that package which states how current the police report must be (3 or 6 months)? I can't find that information on the web...

Peace,

Mark

I uploaded scans of the entire packet 3 contents a few pages back on this thread. I just re-read the insructions, and all they say is not to send in the check list until you first obtain everything on it, including the police report(s) (more than one may be necessary if the applicant has resided in other countries or has been arrested in any other countries). It does not say how current they should be, but I assume from the languge that the date of the report should be after you receive the instructions to get one and before you actually send in the check list. Pao's police report only took about a week and a half, she paid like 40 baht (about a dollar) for EMS (next day) delivery once it was issued.

Bill

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PS it's kinda strange, after she got the first packet3 (the one I uploaded) she got a second packet 3 that had the instructions to do the visa application online, the first packet 3 did not have those instructions.

I actually faxed a 'request for provisional file' - just for the heck of it to the Bangkok Cosular Secton, and the first packet 3 she got came 4 days later from the Embassy, the second packet she got came from the US... strange?

I know they are not supposed to be honoring requests for provisional files anymore, but it appears they did If we had waited till we got the US packet, it just came a couple of days ago.

It seems that not all of the Embassys know they are not supposed to do provisional files anymore or something.... maybe thats because so many other websites have not been updated and alot of people do it anyway...

Bill

Edited December 1, 2006 by TucsonBill

[tamara143 1]

hi mark,

i'm a filipina but i used to work in bangkok for 8 years. the experience i had in obtaining the police certificate in thailand was kind of upsetting. i think your fiancee won't have any problems since she's a thai. as for me, i had to travel twice to bangkok to get it in person. it took me almost a month to receive it since at the time there was a computer problem in their office. anyway, i believe that the police certificate from bangkok is ONLY valid for 3 months and not 6. when i went there, the previous police certificate that i got was already expired so i had to re-apply once more. normally, it will only take you 7-10 days to get it. just allocate a lot of time so that you won't have any problems at all.

GOD BLESS,

tam

Edited December 1, 2006 by tamara143

[mRx 16]

tamara143 is correct, the embassy requires the police report to be not older than 3 months.

[Yodrak 7]

Bill,

The timing between your faxed request and the receipt of the visa application package was most likely a coincidence. The IV unit may well have received your approved petition from the NVC by the time they sent the package.

Interesting to learn of the 2nd package sent "from the US" - from who, where, in the US? The NVC? Perhaps it was done to be sure the K-visa applicants know they must be using the new electronic DS-156?

In what other ways were the two packages different? Did the package from the US contain any Thailand-specific information?

PS it's kinda strange, after she got the first packet3 (the one I uploaded) she got a second packet 3 that had the instructions to do the visa application online, the first packet 3 did not have those instructions.

I actually faxed a 'request for provisional file' - just for the heck of it to the Bangkok Cosular Secton, and the first packet 3 she got came 4 days later from the Embassy, the second packet she got came from the US... strange?

I know they are not supposed to be honoring requests for provisional files anymore, but it appears they did .....

Bill

Many, perhaps most, people ignore that instruction and send the signed checklist immediately since the typical 2-3 months between submission of the DS-230 and checklist and an interview is adequate time to get all of the necessary documentation. I've never heard of anyone having a problem with dates on the documentation being more recent than the date on the checklist.

... I just re-read the insructions, and all they say is not to send in the check list until you first obtain everything on it, including the police report(s) (more than one may be necessary if the applicant has resided in other countries or has been arrested in any other countries). It does not say how current they should be, but I assume from the languge that the date of the report should be after you receive the instructions to get one and before you actually send in the check list. ....

Bill

Yodrak

Edited December 1, 2006 by Yodrak

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Does anyone still have the link to the embassy map? By looking at this map I got, I'm seeing Sukhumvit street on the south side of the Embassy. And looking at the address of the Bumrungrad hospital, I'm guessing that the hospital is somewhere near the Embassy, correct. Oh man so much stresses right now. Trying to figure out how to get my fiancee to go to Thailand to get her med done and to find out where the embassy location is before her interview date . It's tought on her right now, especially not knowing the language and never been to Thailand before. Just trying to find someone to take her there is a pain.

I gotta do something...

[TucsonBill 0]

Does anyone still have the link to the embassy map? By looking at this map I got, I'm seeing Sukhumvit street on the south side of the Embassy. And looking at the address of the Bumrungrad hospital, I'm guessing that the hospital is somewhere near the Embassy, correct. Oh man so much stresses right now. Trying to figure out how to get my fiancee to go to Thailand to get her med done and to find out where the embassy location is before her interview date . It's tought on her right now, especially not knowing the language and never been to Thailand before. Just trying to find someone to take her there is a pain.

I gotta do something...

Get someone to write her taxi instructions in Thai on a piece of paper from the airport, and have the airport call her taxi. You can get a taxi all day for around 1500 B. You could also try hooking her up in a hotel with Cambodian employees. There are alot of Cambodians in Thailand, I'd think you could find someone to help her out with the language problem. Lots of Vietnamese too, if she speaks any Vietnamese.

I could as Pao if she knows anyone who speaks cambodian she could call if she gets stuck..

Bill

Bill

Edited December 3, 2006 by TucsonBill

[TucsonBill 0]

Ok, I'm gettting frustrated. We returned our Packet 3 forms on Nov 21, next day delivery, and still don't have a packet 4 or an interview date - what gives? To top it off, Tuesday, the day they normally update the appointment callendar on the website, is a Thai holiday, (Kings birhtday).

WE WANT OUR APPOINTMENT NOW DAG-NABBIT!!!!

There, got that off my chest.

Bill

Edited December 3, 2006 by TucsonBill