Here after 10 years, How you doin'?

[IndigoSkies 168]

Today, randomly I remembered about this website/forum. I thought I'd pop in and say hello. I doubt I would recognize any one of you (or you, me) from my stint here from back in 2010 era.  You guys have new-fangled online filing and stuff. Back in my days, we had to fill out PDF and print it and mail it and them someone would have to type it back in immigration system. It was quite a thing. Also when we emailed NVC, we had to put "ATTN: Supervisor Sue" in the subject line and whatever it's worth, it actually worked. We'd get replies. I hope everyone from those time are having a good life and a happy life. And I hope everyone new here much luck and well wishes. May your immigration process and life goes as smoothly as you want. I'm going to stick around for a bit to learn some stuff. Are there still racists here? I remember we had some anti-immigrant immigration applicant here back in the days. It was surreal. Here they were asking for immigration advice and help and then coming to off topic to post anti-immigration opinion. The "I got mine, screw you' crowd. I hope they are not here and they are having a terrible life. 

[TBoneTX 45,222]

Of course you're remembered!  Welcome back.

 

Posters like that have been dealt with.

If naturalization is complete, please update your "Filed for" status in your member data (see your left sidebar).  

Edited April 18, 2022 by TBoneTX

[Ontarkie 14,205]

Welcome back.

 

 

[JoBri 547]

On 4/17/2022 at 9:18 PM, IndigoSkies said:

Today, randomly I remembered about this website/forum. I thought I'd pop in and say hello. I doubt I would recognize any one of you (or you, me) from my stint here from back in 2010 era.  You guys have new-fangled online filing and stuff. Back in my days, we had to fill out PDF and print it and mail it and them someone would have to type it back in immigration system. It was quite a thing. Also when we emailed NVC, we had to put "ATTN: Supervisor Sue" in the subject line and whatever it's worth, it actually worked. We'd get replies. I hope everyone from those time are having a good life and a happy life. And I hope everyone new here much luck and well wishes. May your immigration process and life goes as smoothly as you want. I'm going to stick around for a bit to learn some stuff. Are there still racists here? I remember we had some anti-immigrant immigration applicant here back in the days. It was surreal. Here they were asking for immigration advice and help and then coming to off topic to post anti-immigration opinion. The "I got mine, screw you' crowd. I hope they are not here and they are having a terrible life. 

I remember you. I joined in 2008. Thanks for the well wishes for us oldies. We are in Germany, wife is stationed here as a nurse in the Air Force. Just waiting for her to get back here next week from a deployment to Korea.

[Dashinka 24,466]

38 minutes ago, JoBri said:

I remember you. I joined in 2008. Thanks for the well wishes for us oldies. We are in Germany, wife is stationed here as a nurse in the Air Force. Just waiting for her to get back here next week from a deployment to Korea.

Gotta love the Korean BBQ in Itaewon!

[JoBri 547]

Just now, Dashinka said:

Gotta love the Korean BBQ in Itaewon!

She is going on a tour to Seoul in a couple hours from now

[Dashinka 24,466]

5 minutes ago, JoBri said:

She is going on a tour to Seoul in a couple hours from now

I used to stay at the Seoul Grand Hyatt.  The Seoul Tower is right across from this hotel, and Itaewon is a short walk albeit a little hilly.

[scandal 951]

So cool to  see this thread right after I randomly dropped into VJ too after so many years!!

Well, not quite so randomly.

I did my Visa journey stint around 2008-2010 when we went through K-1/AOS etc (I honestly don't even remember all the acronyms) for my wife from Thailand. So here we are, 12 years later, happily married with a 7 year old daughter. Just another VJ success story.

 

So what, you ask, am I doing back on VJ now? No, I'm not here to engage in the raging political fights I recall on off-topic. 

Rather, wen(the wife and I) have started looking seriously at the possibility of sponsoring a refugee Ukrainian family under the new Uniting for Ukraine program https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/uniting-for-ukraine

I thought maybe there might be some useful information on VJ from others who are exploring this option. I haven't seen anything here though I'll keep looking.

[scandal 951]

ok, I did find some discussion here . What I'm really looking for though are other people in same situation as we are: concerned Americans who want to help by sponsoring a Ukrainian family but who don't know anyone there. I have found a couple of Facebook groups devoted to this. I kind of expected VJ to be out in front of it however it's so new (the program was only launched on Monday) that perhaps no one here has brought it up.

 

[Ontarkie 14,205]

24 minutes ago, scandal said:

ok, I did find some discussion here . What I'm really looking for though are other people in same situation as we are: concerned Americans who want to help by sponsoring a Ukrainian family but who don't know anyone there. I have found a couple of Facebook groups devoted to this. I kind of expected VJ to be out in front of it however it's so new (the program was only launched on Monday) that perhaps no one here has brought it up.

 

Oh what a great idea. Might want to post about the program in site discussion to see if Captain Ewok can create a place for this discussion. I'm sure as it becomes more known more will come here looking for information too. 

 

Oh and welcome back. 

Edited April 29, 2022 by Ontarkie