wooohooooo he got the job!!!

what a lucky dog i tell ya....how is it that i actually SPEAK english and had to go on about 10 interviews before i found a job, and he walks out of his first interview with one!?!?!? lol im not complaining or anything, just curious how that works out

anyway, we are soooo happy, and he starts his english classes today too!! what a wonderful monday it is shaping up to be

Wowo!!! Amazing news!! Congrats susie!!!

That's really awesome, congrats!
But you know, actually I think a lot of times immigrants are willing to help out their own with jobs & housing. A lot of times people come here and don't know anyone from their own culture and work really hard to make their lives happen here, and they meet others from back home or similar and are just willing to help.

true that and congrats on your interview status rae!!!

Thanks!
I can't wait to find out our date! I can't wait till we're no longer apart. Facing all the other stuff will be so much easier then.

Oh that is *awesome* And it will be a great place for him to practice English with people who speak his language and make friends as well - that is such good news!! When does he start?

Congratulations! I'm sooooo not looking forward to getting my EAD and having to work again, I've got far too used to being a lady of leisure.

Gillian

yeaaa, i hope he makes some friends, because he loves to go out, but cant contribute to the conversations that my friends and i are having when we do so

the boss said that he will have one of the albanian employees call tomorrow to explain things to my boy...he said that he should be starting 'dopo domani' (the day after tomorrow)



thanks!!

haha being a lady of leisure sounds like much more fun

Tell me about it - I am so looking forward to just chilling out for a bit!!!

oh, so am I

and I keep adding more and more to my list of 'Things To Do With All That Spare Time' so in the end I'll have no spare time left

Oh man, I'm jealous of all of you!
I want to be able to take time off when Scott first gets here but I also just think about the fact that I'll be supporting us until he gets the EAD, and it freaks me out and makes me feel like I should work all the time.
I want to be a lady of leisure too.

Panic over! Housekeeping found my passport, and Fedex will deliver it in the morning!

So, on with the whole immigration report...

I left home at 6.15am on saturday for my 9.30am flight from Heathrow to JFK with Virgin. My bags were bursting at the seams, but I had weighed them, and was prepared to pay the 50 pounds excess weight charges. However, I wasn't prepared for them to limit the weight on my hand-luggage case to 6 kilos (ridiculous), so I had to use the "just in case" hold-all, and repack everything. No biggie, but it meant I had to rush through security, and was the penultimate person on my flight. It was FULL, but a very nice flight none-the-less. I was seated at the back of the plane, so I was at the back of the immigration queue, and it took 1hr 15 mins to get to the front of the queue. Once I got to the front, I had a five minute conversation with the immigration officer, and he opened my visa packet, then sent me to another officer, who typed information into her computer for about ten minutes, then handed me back my passport with the I-94 stapled inside, and on the back of the I-94, is the red 90 day work authorisation stamp. An hour and a half total. Marty had been waiting for three hours though, as he made it up to JFK quicker than expected. We got into my new car(!) and used my new Tom-Tom to get into New York and find our hotel (Isn't he great...) We had a lovely weekend, then drove down to Baltimore yesterday. We HAD planned to get my social security card today, but I'll have to do that by myself tomorrow now, once I have my passport back! We went looking at plants instead! Let coupled life begin...

I can't even do that - we still don't have a place so I can't plan for decorating or gardening or anything...



Ohh I know it sucks - Jeremy has to take time off in June because they are closing down his workplace for a while but it really sucks it isn't a little later when I am there... I think he is going to come out to England a bit earlier... We have found some uber cheap flights - we just need to find out the info for Daisy before we book and it is sooo frustrating!!!



YAY! So glad they found it!!!

Marty has already got me a job waitressing at Macaroni Grill. Hopefully I'll start before the end of the week! I have too much wedding stuff to pay for to be a lady of leisure! Although, we're not getting married until the end of May, so I think they'll be a substantial gap between the end of my temp EAD, and the start of my permanent EAD. That also happens to be the height of summer, so I need to find a local pool...

mmmmm Macaroni Grill - I love their chicken & shrim scallopine! Sooo delicious!

you should wait a little longer before you go apply for your ssn...you should wait at least two weeks from poe to ensure that you are in the system...i went with adriano today (20 days after his arrival), and we had no problems

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...om&page=ssn

Really, you found uber cheap flights for summer? Hmm, maybe I'll go to England!

Lisalu it sounds awesome Great news Watch the passport! You don´t wanna loose it

Lol... well... when I say uber cheap I mean not as extortionate as we were originally looking at... we were looking at over $1k for Jeremy alone and we found one for under $800!!!

Can't book til Wednesday though so I can phone up about my cat...

Yeah where did you find the uber cheap flights?

"you should wait a little longer before you go apply for your ssn...you should wait at least two weeks from poe to ensure that you are in the system...i went with adriano today (20 days after his arrival), and we had no problems"


Oooh, didn't realise that, thanks. I really want to start work though. Do you think it's ok to go every day until I'm in the system? Maybe I'll get lucky?

you could try, but dont let them manually enter you into the system, because 'they say' that this will significantly delay the receipt of your card...i know that adriano didnt need to have the number in order to begin working...i dont know if your job requires it, but they might accept you just with the visa and ead stamp alone...i had adriano bring the letter from ssa with him that says that he will receive the card in 2 weeks, the boss seemed okay with that and just made a copy of the letter

I think he found them through Kayak

OK, thanks Susie

good luck to ya

also, i would go to the ssa office a few minutes before it opens, because you will be out of there in no time...we got there today at 6:55 am (the office opened at 7), and we were out of there at 7:25...by the time we were leaving, the line had significantly increased...when we got there, there were like 4 people ahead of us, and when we were leaving, the line was about 20 people deep

We got there at about 3.30pm or so and there were like maybe one or two people there

from everything I've read, the advice to leave it at least two weeks is good... if they do things manually, it can often take much longer than if you'd just waited, which seems insane, but there it is

Does it really seem insane?
Doesn't it actually seem to be completely in stride with how everything else we have to deal with works?



Oooh, ouch. Either options sounds expensive to me.

you mean i got up at the crack of dawn for nothing!?

lol i had to be at work by 9 anyways, so we really didnt have a choice

I'm sure it depends on where in the country you're going, which office.
I mean, every time I go to the post office in NYC I spend about an hour there, waiting in line. Any other post office in the country I've been in and out in no time. So annoying.

well, yeah, of course, but all of that's insane as well

nobody's perfect

Yeah I know - it's not cheap but at least it isn't in July which is when it gets even more expensive... and we have to pay for two flights... mine and his...

Ah well... I have my union Jack ready for Independence day

and I have my Southern Cross ready for ANZAC Day, so all's well

Trust me you don´t wanna have to go to our SS office even if there were no people going there all day....don´t go there even if they pay you to do so ok? They don´t allow you to apply until 30 days from POE passed...no idea why

thats very odd indeed, and a pain in the arse!

Yup...we got everything done alright...but making us wait another 2 weeks was just weird They wouldn´t even look in the computer to see if I was in it or not Also we had to come back in another 30 days to have the name changed...cuz they wouldn´t do it when I was applying...explanation: "Come back in 30 days and try to apply for the name change...maybe we do it then" So I tried and they did it

some service

Hehe At least this one doesn´t cost you a penny If you don´t count the time wasted

do you honestly mean to tell me that not a single person has posted in this forum since i left work yesterday?! im really disappointed in you guys

I'm trying to do some work today! I am wayyyyy behind! Sorry!

I'm larking around on another forum I'm on

because I'm, y'know, not working for the next six months and all that

Feels good doesn't it??

So jealous!!!

Et tu Brute?

First babybluesusie, now you. *sigh* What is the world coming to?

oh, this isn't new... it's actually the community where I met Dave; I've known these guys for almost five years

just went to stay with another member and his girlfriend on the weekend... am talking about a visit from other, US-based, members, when I'm over there... these are my peeps



yes, it BLOODY WELL DOES

man, I don't REMEMBER not feeling stressed, before this... I think I might break out the coconut rum

i am here though!!!!!!!!

lol albanian.com is just not as wonderous as i hoped it would be...those albanians are HARSH...there are so many hotheads on that website that its not even fun to read most of the time...i really dont post too often, because i assume that i will be attacked for whatever i say...there are also many people on there who have animosity towards albanians who marry non-albanians (mostly due to the previous attempts at genocide in the balkan region), and obviously those are not the type of people that i need to surround myself with...there are some very nice people, but they are mostly overshadowed by the crappy (as with everything in this world), so ive been keeping my distance...in short, im a loyal vj addict

I knew you'd come to your senses!

how could i resist?

AAAAHHHH! So I am sat in my new home waiting for my passport to arrive by 10.30am, as arranged. IT DID NOT COME! (For those not in the know, I left it in New York at the hotel by mistake).

I called Fedex, they say they didn't receive the package because it wasn't ready. I called the hotel, they say they don't know where it is. They have called the receptionist who I spoke to yesterday, but she is off, and not at home. I just have to wait until she calls work, and tells them where she put my incredibly important passport. What the hell? What am I supposed to do now? I want to make the 4 hour journey up there by coach, just so I can collect it myself (Marty told me not to do this yesterday, as not everybody was incompetent. Er Really?) But what's the point if it has gone AWOL?

####, I just want it BACK!