Is it just me...

[JaJo 1]

To be honest I hate these people guts, they are really lazy and amazingly impolite. Whoever applied for a visitor visa, or, in my case, got a visa denied, knows what I am talking about.

I understand the Americans that work there being xenophobic (it is their job) , but I really don't understand why the Brazilians that work there are so mean to other Brazilians.

I beg to disagree. I've work with some of them a while back, and the ones I got to know were really nice people, not xenophobic at all and deeply in love with Brazil.

When they are interviewing us to issue a visa, they have to play the devil's advocate roll; not a good way to gain anyone's sympathy, but it's their job to be suspicious, after all we are a high fraud contry...

Anywho, after my interview I will have to go to copa and have a beer looking at the sea....

I guess that is why they don't have those interviews here in SP.

Not a good enough reason IMO. I much rather have the interview in Sampa...Call me crazy, but I feel safer in SP than I do in Rio...

In my case, the time between CSC and NVC was a little longer than "normal" (3 or 4 weeks).

And it took a week for the case to get to Rio. And 2 weeks for the pkt 3 to get home.

But by the time I got the pkt 3 I was already with my interview scheduled.

By the way, they keep record for when you call them, and I called them every day. at the time they had a date, the girl almost yelled at me "23 DE JANEIRO!!".

Thanks for the heads up.

[Reynaldo 0]

To be honest I hate these people guts, they are really lazy and amazingly impolite. Whoever applied for a visitor visa, or, in my case, got a visa denied, knows what I am talking about.

I understand the Americans that work there being xenophobic (it is their job) , but I really don't understand why the Brazilians that work there are so mean to other Brazilians.

I beg to disagree. I've work with some of them a while back, and the ones I got to know were really nice people, not xenophobic at all and deeply in love with Brazil.

When they are interviewing us to issue a visa, they have to play the devil's advocate roll; not a good way to gain anyone's sympathy, but it's their job to be suspicious, after all we are a high fraud contry...

Like I said, it is their job to be xenophobic. I don't judge them or anything. But the Brazilian citizens that work there are just douches full of envy.

eta: We are a fraud country thanks to Globo and their soap operas, and showing how the "J Sisters" are sucessful after breaking the law (and of course linking Brazil with the lack of pubes)

Edited December 4, 2006 by Reynaldo

[JaJo 1]

But the Brazilian citizens that work there are just douches full of envy.

When I was waiting in line to do my passport, I heard someone make the exact same comment...Maybe they think they're better than everybody else because they work for "the States"...

eta: We are a fraud country thanks to Globo and their soap operas, and showing how the "J Sisters" are sucessful after breaking the law (and of course linking Brazil with the lack of pubes)

Last time I watched a soap opera...I think it was my first semester in college. Hate them!

That one specifically was one I avoided at all costs. I couldn't stand they were trying to sell rodeos as a glamorous thing.

What was portraited there was happening way before that, though. That author seldom has an idea of her own, she grabs whatever hits the news big times and turns it into a (cheesy, lame) soap opera.

[Reynaldo 0]

Last time I watched a soap opera...I think it was my first semester in college. Hate them!

That one specifically was one I avoided at all costs. I couldn't stand they were trying to sell rodeos as a glamorous thing.

What was portraited there was happening way before that, though. That author seldom has an idea of her own, she grabs whatever hits the news big times and turns it into a (cheesy, lame) soap opera.

I hate soaps.

But they have showed me that once you cross the Rio Grande you are less than 30km (yes people, the metric system) away from Miami....

And I was also surprised with the fact that everyone speaks portuguese there, even the Mexicans, and the people that are not immigrants speak portuguese with an accent that doesn't sound from the US at all.

Not to mention that the Mexicans have Rio de Janeiro-Portuguese accent

[Ban Hammer 12,868]

Like I said, it is their job to be xenophobic. I don't judge them or anything. But the Brazilian citizens that work there are just douches full of envy.

eta: We are a fraud country thanks to Globo and their soap operas, and showing how the "J Sisters" are sucessful after breaking the law (and of course linking Brazil with the lack of pubes)

[JaJo 1]

I hate soaps.

But they have showed me that once you cross the Rio Grande you are less than 30km (yes people, the metric system) away from Miami....

And I was also surprised with the fact that everyone speaks portuguese there, even the Mexicans, and the people that are not immigrants speak portuguese with an accent that doesn't sound from the US at all.

Not to mention that the Mexicans have Rio de Janeiro-Portuguese accent

Oh... and I've missed all that "usefull" info

[bora bora 1]

I couldn't stand that soap opera "America".

And yes, thanks for the heads up for the interview date, etc.

I'm getting really nervous/excited!

My fiance and I have to make alot of reservations/appointments/plans in the next few weeks so I guess our phone conversation tonight will be very long

I appreciate the help.

[Reynaldo 0]

Like I said, it is their job to be xenophobic. I don't judge them or anything. But the Brazilian citizens that work there are just douches full of envy.

eta: We are a fraud country thanks to Globo and their soap operas, and showing how the "J Sisters" are sucessful after breaking the law (and of course linking Brazil with the lack of pubes)

And I will be idle in NYC for 3 months. I will pay them a visit and tell them they are destroying my country, one bikini wax at a time.

[bora bora 1]

Being idel in NYC for 3 months is great!

I only have a week this whole year so I'm envious.

[Ban Hammer 12,868]

And I will be idle in NYC for 3 months. I will pay them a visit and tell them they are destroying my country, one bikini wax at a time.

i'm guessing alex does not do that

[Alex+R 0]

And I will be idle in NYC for 3 months. I will pay them a visit and tell them they are destroying my country, one bikini wax at a time.

i'm guessing alex does not do that

HA. Do YOU?

[Reynaldo 0]

And I will be idle in NYC for 3 months. I will pay them a visit and tell them they are destroying my country, one bikini wax at a time.

i'm guessing alex does not do that

HA. Do YOU?

Charles, you silence speaks more than a 1000 words....

[Ban Hammer 12,868]

And I will be idle in NYC for 3 months. I will pay them a visit and tell them they are destroying my country, one bikini wax at a time.

i'm guessing alex does not do that

HA. Do YOU?

Charles, you silence speaks more than a 1000 words....

i'm on a different work schedule right now. the previous answers were me just popping into vj and seeing what was there. no, i don't btw. i'd hate to be responsible for filling up a local landfill

[Reynaldo 0]

i'm on a different work schedule right now. the previous answers were me just popping into vj and seeing what was there. no, i don't btw. i'd hate to be responsible for filling up a local landfill

Anywho, my country should be know for its violence and not for something that is not even from here.

Eta: maybe for being one of the BRIC...

Edited December 4, 2006 by Reynaldo

[Nessa 23]

I hate brazilian soap opera, I would never watch anything in Brazil since 1996 I think when I first had cable at home and started to fall in love with American ####### tv, so I quit watching Globo, Sbt, it was either cable tv or I would prefer to read a book or something. Oh, with the exception of a couple of Big Brothers I watched.