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I have had a similar situation and conversation with a cruise line about this issue. A few years ago we had friends visit us from Russia on their Russian passport and US tourist visa. They wanted to go on a Caribbean cruise with us. The cruise line will put it on you to do your homework and check for the needed visas, BUT the reality is that once you are on the ship there are no immigration checks at ports of call. The cruise line never asked for any additional documents other than the passports and US visa. You exit and reenter the ship using the passenger card they give you. That's all. The only immigration check is returning to the US. I was able to confirm this while on board the ship when they were trying to sell me another future cruise! That was our experience.

Oh, that's just cruel.

Did the attorney charge you for it and did you have to pay the fee?

I'm curious about this as my wife has been unsuccessful at renewing her Russian passport (more on this below) and it seems that a Russian citizen must enter Russia on their Russian passport and a visa is not supposed to be issued to them on another countries passport. My wife's internal and international passports expired just before we had planned to go to Russia to renew them. This was several years ago. Some confusion on US vs European date formats... Wife's passport had been renewed once at the embassy in DC, done by mail back when they were issuing just 5 year passports. Five years later when both had expired was when we ran into trouble. An expired internal passport is a big problem. The embassy said they could not determine that she was a Russian citizen! They needed more documents and additional money to work on this. After sending everything and waiting several months the story was the same. We gave up. Fortunately my wife already had her US passport. Wife never really cared that much about following up on the Russian passport. Wife's US passport lists her place of birth as Kyrgyzstan as she was born in that Soviet Republic. I told her we might try to get a visa to Russia thinking it might slide through unnoticed. So far we have not had any reason to return to Russia.

I wanted to say this before, but I was hopeful about where this could be going...😉 And finally another decent meal for you. Sorry to hear about your burnt dinner. Try to be more careful next time. LOL

Meant to le you know that when we came by Alligator Alcatraz there were NO protesters, only a handful of news trucks. That didn't last long!

It's OK. I'm sure mama TB would be happy with a few new pets.

I was thinking he was devolving, if that's a word. Then again I don't think he has flung poo lately.

I just do my own You went to Walmart too late... Yesterday I received BK coupons. We rarely eat junk food. Sadly they will just go to waste.

Seems like I have been working my tail off the last several weeks along with having to entertain visiting family. Very little time for VJ. Tomorrow in the am we are heading back down to the Keys for a long 4th weekend with more friends coming. Seems like I don't get any time to myself anymore. At least I won't go back to work until Tuesday. A lot of patients will be upset, but I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! Will have to drive right by the new "Alligator Alcatraz" on the way. Looks like slow going in that area with all the protesters and news people. Lucky I wasn't going down today what with the President, Governor. and others arriving there. It's just a simple country two lane road in the middle of nowhere with just a small Indian reservation near by. Everyone is generally driving fast.... 70 or better. If you see on the news a person in a large SUV taking out several protesters tomorrow, that might be me. When we were down for Memorial day I observed nearly every boat at the local sand bar had a flag. Most with and American flag but also many had the Conch Republic flag. Decided I needed a flag also. Two weeks ago when we were there I worked on that, and this time I will be ready. I've got the flag pole for the boat and it's set up for displaying two flags one above the other. Of course the American flag is upper most. I also have a selection of secondary flags. Conch Republic, Florida state flag, University of Louisville flag, and by special request of my wife... a USSR flag🤔. Will see how that last one goes over, but of course all our friends that will be coming down were born in the former USSR. I'll be the only native born American in the group. Everyone have a great 4th.

That's my gripe with the media and "another" group that rants about deportation of "immigrants". No distinction being made between illegals and legal immigrants. Seems they want you to think the government is going after anyone here on a visa or green card.

Misdirected packages by UPS and FedEx are the norm in my area. Seems the drivers are happy just to get them reasonably close and let the folks in the neighborhood sort it out amongst themselves.

Sounds a lot like where my wife lived in Russia. I remember taking the taxi bus and traffic was backed up so the driver drove down the sidewalk.

I'm back. I was suffering from a long and severe bout of "way too much to do and not nearly enough time", but I have found a cure. At the end of today I started a week and a half vacation, sort of. Saturday we will pick up one of my wife's friends from back in the city they were living in in Russia. She also did a K-1 and married a guy in the God forsaken state of Texas. She's flying in from Dallas and will stay with us for a week. We hadn't heard from her in several years and it turns out she had wanted to visit the Keys and Key West but then found out how expensive it was to stay there and then thought about us. Now we are great friends again! I don't mind having her, and she was one of my wife's first friends I met on my first trip to Russia, BUT I'm still a little mad at her because the first time she met me, and questioned me when my wife was in the restroom, she later that day told my wife "he will never marry you"... We pick her (Lena) up Saturday morning and head immediately to the Keys. Unfortunately my wife decided she needed backup and invited her daughter and the grandkids (spoiled rotten boys) to come down to the Keys for the duration. The dad is going to be out of town and the daughter needs to work (remotely). This is NOT my idea of vacation and I refuse to baby sit two kids while I try to do my R&R. We will see how this turns out. Looks like heavy drinking will be necessary. And plenty of time on the water fishing. Alone.

Yikes. I'm headed to Boulder in a few months for a wedding. No place is safe.

That's definetely liberal.

I don't know about the elected officials in the Keys as I vote in SW Florida (Naples... solid red), but from the looks of the flags flying on the boats in the lower Keys, its red also. That always surprised me as I envisioned Key West as being super liberal. Turns out those old hippies can be conservatives too. Not sure where the people in the video live. Didn't pay a lot of attention to that.

Been there. Done that. Long story, but it involved permitting issues on a dock rebuild I did in the FL Keys several years ago. Along the way I spoke with a couple of the inspectors and was told there would be no problems and that the county just wanted to see that we were compliant with the latest codes. When it was finished and we were getting the paperwork signed off they let me know about the fines. $7500. I told them "NO (BLANKING) WAY. The dock was not even worth that much (at that time). They immediately told me the fines were negotiable. Did my research and learned most cases were settled for 10% or less of the original fine. I didn't feel like I owed anything and went back and forth with them. Got tired of that nonsense and finally settled for about $500.

Sounds like you need to have your own massive GS. As I have said, she will live forever.

I am very familiar with this story. My daughter in law was from South Africa and came to the US with her parents 20+ years ago. Of course they have been telling me about the taking of white farmers land and the killings of white farmers and the burning of their homes. It has even happened to one of their relatives. Was not easy for my daughter in law's family to get out of SA, but they managed many years ago. The stories her parents told me let me know how difficult the SA government tried to make it for them to leave, Funny story. They arrived when my daughter in law was a young teen. When she started started school here there was the usual paperwork to fill out. Of course there was the question about race with the blanks to check. She selected African/American because, of course, she was African but was now living in America.

Can't we just call him Pope Bob I?

Your spouse didn't tell you or didn't tell you until just before the interview? You have a much bigger issue than needing to find a divorce decree.

So Ruth left you... What a shame. Perfect opportunity lost.

Who's Ruth? You didn't tell us about her.

You must be a hoarder. No wonder the maid hesitates arriving on time.