I was up this morning at 2:00 AM feeding my one month old daughter and changing an explosive poopy diaper when my cell phone rang... Since Fadi is stil in Baghdad the first words out of my mouth were, "Are you OK??" All he said was, "I've got good news...I just got my Visa." HALLELUJA!! It only took 17 months!! Fu*king immigration. I still HATE the Amman embassy, but I am so happy that the VIsa journey (journey my ###, more like a trip through the third ring of HELL) is finally over. All we've got to do now is get him out of Iraq and on a plane bound for the red, white and blue. Thank you all for your continued support.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
Full Version: VISA IN HAND!!! EUREKA WE'VE STRUCK GOLD!!!!
woohoo congrats!
Congrats! I am so so happy for you both. 
BTW* Did he work for our gov't in Iraq?
BTW* Did he work for our gov't in Iraq?
Wonderful news!!!! Wow is this good news week or what?? Congratulations!!! 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
congrats! yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! 
Wooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!
My husband was just deiend his promotion due to internal politics (he publishes "too much" and gets "too many contracts" and makes them look bad, but the reason they stated was "he may leave someday" (ummm doesn't everyone leave their job someday?!?!?!?) and they violated his contract by doing this), and he told me he is so mad when he gets done teaching this semester he will leave even before the total semester time is up as long as he has that visa! So that's June 3!!! I hope he gets the visa. HOPE.
My husband was just deiend his promotion due to internal politics (he publishes "too much" and gets "too many contracts" and makes them look bad, but the reason they stated was "he may leave someday" (ummm doesn't everyone leave their job someday?!?!?!?) and they violated his contract by doing this), and he told me he is so mad when he gets done teaching this semester he will leave even before the total semester time is up as long as he has that visa! So that's June 3!!! I hope he gets the visa. HOPE.
Congrats and I am happy for you and I can pray that he will leave Iraq very soon so that he can be safe. May he be in your arms so very soon.
QUOTE(JODO @ Apr 13 2007, 11:09 AM) 
Congrats! I am so so happy for you both.
BTW* Did he work for our gov't in Iraq?
BTW* Did he work for our gov't in Iraq?
He has worked as a translator for the Army, Marines and "government" since the war broke out and has been receiveing personal death threats for over a year now...you'd THINK that might help him to get a Visa or at least EXPEDITE the process a LITTLE but no...no special treatment of any kind...gotta love the way our government uses and abuses people...no wonder everyone hates us.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At last !!!! Congratulations
Wishing him a safe trip home to the U.S. very soon, and a wonderful reunion with you and your brand-new baby daughter !!
-MK
Congrats!!
Wow! Congratulations.
Wonderfull news!!!!!
Wonderfull news!!!!!
Wonderfull news!!!!!
Mabruk!!!
Congratulations !
Congratulations! I know you must be really happy, and that you'll be so relieved when he finally steps off of that plane onto U.S. soil!
omg 17 months. congrats, you should celebrate it 
thousands congrsts to both of u
OH that is sooo great!!! I'm so happy for you both and now he can see his new baby!!!!
QUOTE(Mandolin_68 @ Apr 13 2007, 11:06 AM)
I was up this morning at 2:00 AM feeding my one month old daughter and changing an explosive poopy diaper when my cell phone rang... Since Fadi is stil in Baghdad the first words out of my mouth were, "Are you OK??" All he said was, "I've got good news...I just got my Visa." HALLELUJA!! It only took 17 months!! Fu*king immigration. I still HATE the Amman embassy, but I am so happy that the VIsa journey (journey my ###, more like a trip through the third ring of HELL) is finally over. All we've got to do now is get him out of Iraq and on a plane bound for the red, white and blue. Thank you all for your continued support.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
Congratulations!! Everytime i read your posts about the embassy in amman it cracks me up.
Congrats!!!!!
Congrats to both of you!!! That's wonderful! I've been waiting for over 21 months, but it's due to someone here not being able to look at their desk!
I know how you feel! Thanks God it's over!!!
I know how you feel! Thanks God it's over!!!
congrats!
I am so happy to see so many people getting there visa's CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! i wish you both a long, and happy life together!!!!!!!!
AJ1 
AJ1
MABROUK!!!! that is wonderful news! Glad to hear it.
best wishes for a magnificent reunion!
best wishes for a magnificent reunion!
CONGRATS!!!
I am so happy for you!!! Congratulations!!
Meriem
Meriem
CONGRATULATIONS MANDOLIN!!! IT'S ABOUT TIME THEY SENT YOUR HUSBAND HIS VISA!! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND YOUR BABY THAT FINALLY HUSBAND/DADDY IS COMING HOME!!!!! BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!!!!
QUOTE(Mandolin_68 @ Apr 13 2007, 12:06 PM)
I was up this morning at 2:00 AM feeding my one month old daughter and changing an explosive poopy diaper when my cell phone rang... Since Fadi is stil in Baghdad the first words out of my mouth were, "Are you OK??" All he said was, "I've got good news...I just got my Visa." HALLELUJA!! It only took 17 months!! Fu*king immigration. I still HATE the Amman embassy, but I am so happy that the VIsa journey (journey my ###, more like a trip through the third ring of HELL) is finally over. All we've got to do now is get him out of Iraq and on a plane bound for the red, white and blue. Thank you all for your continued support.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
big congrats!!! it does feel like one strikes gold doesnt it???
many happy blessings!!
chi
QUOTE(Mandolin_68 @ Apr 13 2007, 09:06 AM)
I was up this morning at 2:00 AM feeding my one month old daughter and changing an explosive poopy diaper when my cell phone rang... Since Fadi is stil in Baghdad the first words out of my mouth were, "Are you OK??" All he said was, "I've got good news...I just got my Visa." HALLELUJA!! It only took 17 months!! Fu*king immigration. I still HATE the Amman embassy, but I am so happy that the VIsa journey (journey my ###, more like a trip through the third ring of HELL) is finally over. All we've got to do now is get him out of Iraq and on a plane bound for the red, white and blue. Thank you all for your continued support.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
Julianna - I'm sure your SO will be following mine shortly. Good luck with yoru upcoming interview and in dealing with the cro-magnun retards the Amman embassy refers to as staff.
I'm not sure that you should be bashing the Amman Embassy so much. Without them would your fiance have a visa?
The taking on Iraq petitions have cost our Jordanian filers ALOT of time apart. The wait in Amman for an interview used to be 2-3 months after packet 3. We have watched that number escalate to 7-8 months after Amman agreed to work on Iraq petitions. I would think the Iraqi people would be glad that an embassy took on those petitions.
Amman was always professionial and friendly in our dealings with them. Sorry you had a bad experience.
Glad to see your progress.
Jackie
Amman was always professionial and friendly in our dealings with them. Sorry you had a bad experience.
Glad to see your progress.
Jackie
Wow, a big congrats to you! 
Congrats!!
QUOTE(sarah and hicham @ Apr 14 2007, 01:22 PM)
I'm not sure that you should be bashing the Amman Embassy so much. Without them would your fiance have a visa?
Actually, my fiance almost did NOT get his Visa BECAUSE of them. His DOS security checks have been complete for three months now and the whole petition/Visa was set to expire on April 9th. We couldn't get Amman to GIVE us the fricking Visa and they wouldn't allow him to enter the embassy to get the Visa or find out why they weren't issuing it to him becasue he is Iraqi. Thank GOD he works for the Americans in Baghdad and he got some help from them. (He is friends with some of the Americans who work in the embassy in Baghdad and one of them had to personally go to Amman and pick up the Visa for him.) This is the only reason he has a visa right now....so yes, I should be bashing the Amman embassy and I feel sorry for any other Iraqis trying to get a Visa through Amman if they don't have the connections my fiance has.
Congratulations! God speed
I feel sorry for the Jordanians that are waiting 8 months to be issued an interview date due to the thousands of Iraq petitions overflowing the Amman consulate.
Jackie
Jackie
I feel sorry for all the Jordanians who are being held up by Iraqi petitions as well as for the Iraqis who don't have a consulate of their own to go through! 
ETA: Congrats, Amanda!
ETA: Congrats, Amanda!
QUOTE(Mandolin_68 @ Apr 14 2007, 01:48 PM)
QUOTE(sarah and hicham @ Apr 14 2007, 01:22 PM)
I'm not sure that you should be bashing the Amman Embassy so much. Without them would your fiance have a visa?
Actually, my fiance almost did NOT get his Visa BECAUSE of them. His DOS security checks have been complete for three months now and the whole petition/Visa was set to expire on April 9th. We couldn't get Amman to GIVE us the fricking Visa and they wouldn't allow him to enter the embassy to get the Visa or find out why they weren't issuing it to him becasue he is Iraqi. Thank GOD he works for the Americans in Baghdad and he got some help from them. (He is friends with some of the Americans who work in the embassy in Baghdad and one of them had to personally go to Amman and pick up the Visa for him.) This is the only reason he has a visa right now....so yes, I should be bashing the Amman embassy and I feel sorry for any other Iraqis trying to get a Visa through Amman if they don't have the connections my fiance has.
Iraq doesn't issue visas right? How can you complain if it's not even his countries Consulate and they are basically helping everyone going through Iraq by issuing visas through Jordan? You got the visa right? If I were you I would be thankful that you have the option of going through an Embassy in another country and actually getting his visa.
QUOTE(jenn3539 @ Apr 14 2007, 04:04 PM)
I feel sorry for all the Jordanians who are being held up by Iraqi petitions as well as for the Iraqis who don't have a consulate of their own to go through!
I agree. it is neither the fault of the petitioning Iraqis, nor the waiting Jordanians. It also probably has zilch to do with the COs in Amman... but... there are a bunch of idiots who would have no extra work who said OK to the whole deal, and I will also choose to blame them for a lot of general incompetance. I am just glad that Mandolin68's F-H got his visa!!!!!!!
I doubt Iraqis want to go through Amman any more than petitioning Jordanians want them there... as well as the whole Syrian faction. And actually, it makes it slower on EVERYONE to have so many people going through that tiny embassy.
As one who is being slowed down by this whole process... I am just saying that I am glad Amman is issuing visas
Happy to hear that you will have your man with you soon CONGRATULATIONS
Dorothy
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