Good morning.

BG -

1. I think the Carnival in Miami is in October. The last one was Oct 2006...new dates aren't out yet.

2. Nope, but it sounds like fun. I like the Norfolk/Va Beach area.

3. The first Carnival in B-More is July 13-15...no dates for the one in September yet. We'll be there. It's okay but the DC one is better...IMO. I was never interested in going to the Carnival until two years ago...a friend invited us and Damien had so much fun...kinda like being in JA.

4. Yes, same weekend every year.

It could take just a month. Once your cycle gets back to mormal it could happen at anytime.

Hey all! I just wanted to pop in and let you know that I received an RFE for Marlon's divorce decree. He will be emailing both pages to me today so I can pop it in the mail tomorrow. I am off to graduate soon!
Much love!

Hey Sarah today is your big day, Congrats

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Ok, now I'm officially scared.....I will be travelling at 32 weeks, the airline I'm going with says you can fly up until 7 months so I SHOULD be ok!!
But so if they just look at me the wrong way they can deny boarding even with a doctor's letter??????
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If the airline you are flying on **allows** you to fly UP to 7 months, the ticket counter, gate agents OR flight attendants **may** ask you for documentation from your doctor **allowing** you to travel.

I was 7 months pregnant, but noone could tell......it just all depends.

It's just like when mixed families travel, I have all sorts of clients that are married, remarried, have all different names and I HIGHLY recommend to each and every one of them to travel with documentation from their "other" (especially if there is joint custody) that says, I so and so allow the childs name to travel ....dates (to and from)....where to....etc etc. Especially internationally..... I have a client that told me when they traveled over Christmast to Turks & Caicos that they were prepared with their letter to show, if asked. They were NOT asked, but another family checking in right next to them WERE asked for their documentation and since they didn't have any ..........the entire family of 5 were denied.

Going to the Dominican Republic REQUIRES you to have documentation like that or you will be denied.

I tell my clients, even those taking their grandchildren, even domestically with ALLL of the crap that goes on in our F-D up world to be PREPARED!!! My dad took my son to Detroit in January and they were going over to Canada for only just a couple of hours, my dad was asked for "proof" that he was the grandparent.....not just some man stealing my son and the customs person was impressed that he had his information all ready for them. They didn't want to see my sons birth certificate, but asked for a photo ID. My son doesn't have a passport, but I had given my dad my sons ID from an "Identification place" that came to his daycare (when he went) !!

So, ANY documentation, even though you may NEVER be asked, is better....in this day and age !!! It's way better than being denied altogether !!!

Couldn't agree more!!


Well I'm REALLY pissed today.
Apparently the US Embassy here sometimes asks for a notarized letter from the child's father giving the child permission to immigrate with the mother.
So, set up an appointment with a notary here and typed a letter for my son's dad to get signed.
So, after charging £55 to sign two pieces of paper, my son's dad calls me to say that the notary told him in his opinion he SHOULDN'T SIGN it!!!
Now here, we rarely get documents notarized, all notaries are lawyers as well.
But I was like wtf??????
He was there to get the letter NOTARIZED, not to ask him for his opinion on the CONTENT!!
My son's dad said he signed it anyway, but the notary gave him a name of someone he should supposedly contact to 'draw up a proper' letter!!
I'm putting in a full complaint, because while the notary IS a lawyer, he was NOT being consulted for legal advice!!
And UNLESS he was (a) consulted or ( the document was illegal he had NO right poking his nose in!!

What do you all think?

Congrats!! I thought you submitting the divorce decree w/the original packet? I remember you were waiting on it for a while.

I agree he had no business to say anything, but since he signed it anyway I would leave it alone. Sometimes it's not worth the extra headache.

Ditto.

Anyone have T-Mobile? I have a razr (btw piece of crap phone & waste of money) and it dropped into some water. Now it's completely dead and T-Mobile is telling me I have to pay $70 for my deductible (even thought I pay $6 a month for ins). I'm a little ticked off right now b/c $70 is WAY TOO MUCH for a razr. I bought my phone for $25 back in Nov. Is there anyway to get around this ins policy? I used to be w/Sprint and they had the same type of ins but I knew how to work them so I never paid a dime.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all the moms (and moms-to-be) !!!

Have a great weekend everyone..



Kelly

I have a Razr from T-mobile too. I love the phone though....and I've had ALOT of phones. I never have to pay for my replacements, but they always just went dead on there own, i was never the one who lost or damaged it. The deductible used to be $35 but maybe that was cause I had a cheaper phone. Not really sure you can get around the $70. The price you pay for your phone is always cheaper than whats its actually worth, so when you break it, you pay more money to replace it then when you originally bought it.

You may want to see if you can use the $70 towards a new T-mobile phone since you dont like the Razr anyway. Why pay for something you really dont want? Otherwise I say by your phone on Ebay, thats always cheap.

futuremrs- enjoy your graduation, and party your butt off afterwards! sorry to hear about the RFE. it sounds like it's a quick fix though.

happy mother's day everyone!

Hubby did the same ting, Had to pay the same amount to replace it It went dead, before that the screen was full of dust and the camera went out, the dealer said that they couldn't fix it The phone it's self in the store ranges $250-399, if purchased without a new plan activation, depending on who you go with.

I asked about getting upgraded to a different phone and the lady told me $100+. I spoke to my friend in NY and he is going to see what he can do (NY always have the best deals)..



Happy Mothers Day to all!!

Happy Mothers day to all mom's and mom's to be!!!!!!

I got touched today....hopefully it's a good sign.

CARD PRODUCTION ORDERED FOR EAD AND AOS
FINISHED FOR TWO YEARS

I have T-Mobile as well. You should be able to upgrade to a newer phone for free or for a same amount (like 19.99). I recently purchased the KAZR, which is like the RAZR but smaller, on Ebay. And it works well.

Ummmm..........is there something u want to tell me SJB?

Hello Everyone ! I know I havent been on here in a while, so I was dropping in to say Wha Gwan??? Are there any yardies out here from the CHicago area???

Ok, I have a question.
What did you/are you going to do about money??
Is he going to have an allowance?
Are you going to just give him an extra bank card?
If you do, are you/do you put a limit on what he can spend?
Have you thought about how much he should contribute when he gets a job? Or how did you work that out??

I will still be getting paid full pay for like 18 months after I move, but have told him he'll have to take my cards, I am hopeless about saving money, I waste every penny I earn lol...Even going to have him change my Paypal password (I'm an Ebay addict too!)
So what we're going to do is sit down and work out how much I'm allowed to squander per month, which will be put in my account which I'll have a debit card for.
Once I start working, we're thinking about keeping the squandering money the same and just saving whatever the surplus is from my wages...Obviously this will work because he doesn't spend much at all and I know I have a problem with spending wisely...

Congrats

so glad to hear there's been some form of movement with your case! i really hope the wait is over for you.

Congrats!!!




WOW... Why couldn't I be transfered to the CSC

Hubby jusy started a job. When he arrived we added him to one of my accounts, we opened him a seperate account in addition to that, his daughter has a card to one of the accounts, we depost money into biweekly for her. We have two savings and three checking accounts total, each have a purpose, one for savings, one for bills, ect. He will get his first pay check soon. We haven't descided who will pay what, instead all the money goes into the accounts, after we pay the bills, we put what we can in savings and let the rest sit unitl needed. We both have cards attached to each account. We did not set limits on what each other spends, he likes to save, I'm learning to do the same, so we don't have a problem. When he wants something he buys it same for me, but we usually consulte one another before hand...esp if it is a large purchase.

IM SO GLAD THINGS HAVE GONE SO WELL FOR YOU GUYS. GOOD LUCK






YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Mothers Day to all Mothers and Mothers to be...



A flower for each and everyone of you

We finally got a date set for our wedding, it will be June 2

THAT IS THE BEST NEWS ....YEAHHH

Congrats on the wedding date! Dangit how'd you beat me? So will it big a nice little celebration, or a small justice of the peace type ceremony?

Congrats




Congrats That was fast.

You would be the first to know.

Ditto. Happy Mother's Day.

Congrats on your wedding date

PAM- Congrats on the wedding date!!!

Morantbaygirl- Congrats on EAD and AOS!

Anna - Fabolous finally some movement on your case I see you getting your NOA2 In the the near future.


Happy Mothers day to all of u mothers out there

I am exhausted my brother graduated from Huskie Land yesterday and I threw the party at my house. It was his graduation and mothers day party. His graduation started early at 9am and didn't finish until like 11:30am. Thank goodness his last name started with the letter B so we could sneak out at 10am. He looked like a little dot to me. It was a good experience for me seeing how a big college has a graduation. Its not as close and personal like my undergrad and graduate degree. I told him he looked like a dot even on the big screen. Happy for him that he has a job to start in cook county but I told him he will want to move with Chicago traffic after one hour and 1/2 drive to work. He will go insane. He doesn't want to leave his college friends who have not graduated but I can see him moving when the winter comes.

I just want to say CONGRATS TO ALL THE GRADUATES of 2007!!!

Dwain got a phone call Thursday to go pick up his visa!! Wow that was short it only took one week from the interview . My father and I hung all Jamaican art in our bedroom yesterday and awhile ago I had our bedroom painted his favorite color blue. He will be here soon only 19 days left!Now I am trying to convience him to skip the GED part and take placement exams to our commuity college. This would save us time on him getting a degree and he could start some music classes right away. But he still thinks he should go to get the GED cause he graduated highschool in 98. I don't know how to convience him that he can skip this part and start with the basics at the community college. Any suggestions? I stole a job recomdation letter that said he went to highschool and was a fair student. My Aunt who works at the college said it should work and that I would need to talk to the lady who deals with international students.

i am SSSSOOOO addicted to ebay it is not funny....it's just that you can get great things for cheap....

This is a bit odd, as I know my friend filed for his wife before they knew each other for 2 years. She actually arrived in the US about 15 months after they met. Now their wedding did a good job of tearing me up, with my wife stuck in JA.

The conditional green cards (2 year) is for K1 visas or I-130's where the couple is married less than 2 years before the spouse enters the country.




You can still file for a visa without knowing your partner 2 years, you just get a conditional green card right? I've read on this, and there is a 2 year limit on a certain kind of green card. If you have known each other over 2 years they give you the other one. There are many people who have filed for a visa in less than 2 years knowing each other. I think the embassy was giving that couple the run around or there were probably other outstanding issues that nixed the visa.

Actually $70 isn't bad for a Razr, one usually pays less because they sign up for a plan and the cell provider charges less than the real value of the phone to get your business. That is why they gave it to you for $25, they wanted your contract. Now they have it.

Unlocked Razr's are still going for $125 total cost on ebay.

Hey Eric how long did you have to wait when you rescheduled your wife's interview ?

It was only 16 days, but this was a blue sheet interview that was rescheduled. I'd guess you are looking at 2-3 months.

Oh ok, at least I have a little idea of time..since they told me i would get another interview date in the mail

thanx

hey everyone....was doing some searches and came across this website...
http://www.jamaicacooking.com/index.html

the recipes look really easy...and sound SO good....

We have a joint savings and a joint checking account. We both contribute all of our paychecks. We pretty much have set bills every month and we each get the same weekly allowance. If there is any money left over, we decide how we should waste it together....sometimes an event, sometimes, clothes or shoes, sending money to Jamaica, etc. It's been a year of budgeting this way and so far so good.

hhhmmm lets see if this works...

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Hello everyone


Question - Catogories for interview binder - so far I have trips, phone, pictures of trips, wedding, financial info. Am I missing anything?

I was out last week due to back pain and the doctor told me to get a pregnancy belt, has anyone here used them? Do they work?

Thanks but T-Mobile said it would cost me over $100 to get an upgrade. I tried just about everything w/my phone this weekend and now it will turn on for a period of time then die out. I'll wait a couple of wks then see what can be done.

Thanks

Hi JamaicaDiva,

Good to hear from you...it's been a while.

I know I'm late but I wanted to post. Javon and I have talked about the finances and we made some decisions. When the time is near I'm going to get a 2nd job so once he arrives we will be okay for a few months. We currently have a debit card now but it's used solely for ATM purposes instead of me sending it thru Western Union or Money gram. Once he arrives I will give him a bank card and he will be able to use it "as needed" and anything extra must be discussed first. Once he finds a job we decided to split the bills. I will continue to pay rent while he pays the utitilies (gas, heat, & light) and the phone bill. I figured I will probably more then him in the beginning as he moves up he can obtain more responsibilities. As far as saving goes we'll decide later depending on your combined monthly income.

The thing is I'm frugal and HATE to spend money whereas he is more of a spender.



Honestly I thought they lost my case... hopefully now I'll see something by the end of the month.