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How to schedule an appointment
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Savannah Guthrie's mom's disappearance now being investigated as a crime
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Savannah Guthrie's mom's disappearance now being investigated as a crime
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Today the FBI has posted photos and recovered video from Mrs. Guthrie's doorbell camera. It shows the kidnapper. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/authorities-release-surveillance-photo-potential-subject-nancy-guthrie-rcna258356 Truly terrifying. -
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How to schedule an appointment
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How to schedule an appointment
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SSN issues, issuing a cautionary tale while venting.
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Thankfully back in 2023 scheduling it online wasn't too hard, and the fact that they made you do it was even more dumb, because when we showed up it was an empty building with one employee at the time. Unfortunately, the changes put into place since the new administration has made things harder and has been the subject of much complaint... and well it's an intentional feature not a bug. 😉 Depending on what you need the appointment for is going to depend on if you can get past the prompts to schedule an appointment to begin with. But it is best to go through the 'make an appointment' process, which will have you try your best to answer questions to the AI to see if you are indeed allowed to make an appointment (probably not, who knows?!). The best way to answer this is... they say you can make an appointment, but the truth is they don't really want you to make an appointment. It's very much like UK systems now. 🙃
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Superbowl LX Half Time Show(s)
yuna628 replied to OldUser's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
I think the halftime show was probably the best part of the entire game? The ads were dreadful AI slop. The Patriots were sleepwalking to the point I think a team of toddlers could have beaten them. -
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Flinging Rants To See If They'll Stick
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Flinging Rants To See If They'll Stick
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Coca-Cola retires beloved 80-year-old product line
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Latest Minneapolis shooting
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It's cold. So cold and so windy it's considered unsafe with the windchills for frostbite. The iceberg around the car is only slightly smaller with daily chopping. You can skate across the back yard, you can even walk on the bay, and the coyotes are getting loud at night. My RX was supposed to be filled a week ago. They keep saying 'understaffed' and that they'd get it the next day. Nope. I had to go in and stand in a line that wrapped around the building in that cold, and physically demand they fill it while I was there. I've got to do this all over again next week.
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Financial Institution Having a Hard Time Providing Evidence for I-134
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Latest Minneapolis shooting
yuna628 replied to Nature Boy 2.0's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
Hi TB, we've been over this a while back. That claim is simply, pants on fire not true. In fact the two people they were looking for had nothing to do with him and never did. One man was in jail, and the other did not even live in that town, city, or state. That is my point - when a government does wrong, they should not be doubling down or lying about that wrong - they need to do right. Because every time they don't, damages the agency as a whole and makes the situation worse. -
It was -2 degrees this morning, 50mph winds, and the giant icebergs from a few weeks back haven't melted. It's brutal out there. Winter will continue to do it's thing. Groundhogs should never be used for weather prediction. They are some of our only animals that truly hibernate in winter, and thus by Nov/Dec should be snuggled up inside their burrows and left alone to complete their natural process. I'm excited to see momma hog and her babies exit the den they've got under my shed this spring. They'll be stupid and curious as always and start digging in my pots until I get my chili peppers out to remind them who is boss.
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Coca-Cola retires beloved 80-year-old product line
yuna628 replied to TBoneTX's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
I grew up on that stuff. But for a lot of people some products in their frozen line are used in cooking and mixing in all sorts of recipes. If I'm making cucumber salads in summer, if I'm not using straight fresh lemons.. I'm using their bottles of frozen lemon. You can make really decent lemon and keylime frozen pies, and good mixers in drinks. -
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Flinging Rants To See If They'll Stick
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SSN issues, issuing a cautionary tale while venting.
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Open joint bank account
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Open joint bank account
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Open joint bank account
yuna628 replied to Ariel Pierini's topic in Moving to the US and Your New Life In America
Did Chase send a letter or some kind of confirmation correspondence confirming you being added as authorized user? Usually cards will just have the user's name on it, but we took photos of our cards and various account info showing that we are linked. If I recall rightly, at the time I added my husband to my bank account, he did not yet have his SSN. They accepted his passport, marriage license, and other evidence. Typically a K1 should try to obtain their SSN within two weeks of entering the US, and that opens up a lot of possibilities and ways of securing other items. If you've waited too late or you are adjusting from a different way (it sounds like you came a different way) then your next opportunity is going to be EAD if you're filing for that with AOS. That will also open up the ability to go back to the SSA and also to get state ID etc. As far as other proofs goes.. health insurance, joint taxes, pension/insurance beneficiaries, life insurance, wills/POAs are all good. IIRC, we also had something like a Costco membership printed out where you could see him as a user on the account. We did the same with our phone plan. In the future, once you've got your SSN, getting a credit card without credit history isn't as hard as one might think. Start with a secured credit card like through Discover, and within six months you'll be upgraded and should be good to go. -
It was supposedly from the possible kidnappers, and was also sent to local outlets as well. The rumor today is that the daughter and son-in-law are being scrutinized in some way. They are the last to see her alive.
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New here and starting the K1 Visa journey I am a US citizen and Gisell is a citizen of the Domincan Republic
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Today after yet another embarrassing press conference on the subject of her disappearance with the sheriff... TMZ reports that they were emailed a threatening ransom note describing particulars of the case and demanding a large amount of bitcoin. I have no idea what to think of the legitimacy of such a note.
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Man that is *stoopid* I'd tell them to kick rocks personally. There has to be someone that has the same parental situation.
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221g but lacking clarity on guidelines (joint sponsor doesn't qualify because retired?)
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From personal experience: we used a well-qualified joint sponsor for our K1 process and that wasn't the problem. We were confident that we had a large amount of savings enough to handle the long waiting period to a green card. Alas, that ended up being quite the pickle. The long wait (employers didn't want to hire him until he had a green card vs an EAD), the job market at the time in our area, and the enormous cost of health insurance significantly drained our finances. We were mere months away from losing it. He was hired out of a miracle chance, so our income stabilized, but that did not mean he was offered health insurance. That was another year for a promotion to get that. That was ten years ago. Insurance costs are even higher now and immigrants are viewed with even higher scrutiny. It's important to have a long term stable plan and perhaps employment before starting down this road. That may be difficult to hear, and I hope no offense is taken.
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As more details come out about this case it sounds like a very serious kidnapping. The FBI is also quickly involved and there is discussion of disturbing crime scene evidence of some sort of serious harm. I wonder if this is some sort of stalker situation. They are being rather mysterious about the info on what has happened here, but I hope this poor lady is found alive.
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Let's save the human species!
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I had visited him several times before his condition began so it was hard to see him deteriorate. There were some small blessings eventually. For a while he would have days where he couldn't remember what had happened to his wife, so he would go through the grieving process multiple times... eventually the disease spared him of wondering about that. Breakfast used to be dry bland cheerios, pop tarts, or toaster strudel (do they still make that?). Though the best occasional cereals were cocoa pops and soymilk. Okay 1) lactose intolerant? You can get lactose free cheese if that helps him. 2)is there something for breakfast that he wants to eat in particular? what does he eat when he's not with you? 3) why is Mama T-B mad at you for a trip? I mean.. I get you, every time me and the husband want to go on vacation the elderly seem to have a total passive-aggressive gaslighting meltdown to the point I can't even relax the whole time. Don't understand it.
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Took a day off from chopping the ice and went back at it yesterday. The 'iceberg' has not melted much... 4 degrees this morning. But hitting it with my shovel and a hammer has provided some stress relief. Looks like blizzard #2 will sadly miss us, but might be some flurries. We learned of the passing of my husband's grandfather. He was the sort of man you could quintessentially describe as an absolute English gentleman. Tall, kind, dry-humored, full of stories.. with a twinkle in his eye. Always impeccably dressed. He loved his gardens, tea, finer things of life, and traveling. His grandfather's health began to decline after the loss of his wife, and not long after my husband left the UK. When we visited, he no longer had a memory of anyone because of severe dementia and he battled illness after illness... each time beating the odds. Take some comfort in the fact that once it's over, there will be no more sleepless nights, no missing each other, and no more empty rooms.