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apalachidoremi   10

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hey y'all!

 

Hope you had an awesome 4th of July!

 

Feeling "fresh meat", will be starting work in a couple of weeks. I feel like I've somehow become used to staying at home for the past half year waiting for my papers and all, that I'm not used to dealing and meeting with new people let alone be in a new environment. Don't get me wrong, I feel lucky (blessed, ecstatic) to have a job just a month after getting my green card but I feel so freakin nervous (have social phobia). There were times that I felt bored, sad during the "wait" period these past months but now that everything seems to be falling into place I feel like I'm not ready yet. lol.  Anyone who was, or is in the same boat? haha

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Translate your nervousness into excitement.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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apalachidoremi   10

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1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Translate your nervousness into excitement.

I've been trying to do that, but for the time being it's easier said than done,,, waaah

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I totally get you. I am going through the same emotional process, although I don't have a job yet. But since I got my EAD, I've gone from bored to stressed. Like you said, I feel like I've gotten used to staying at home these past 7 months, and although at first it was hard not to work, now I feel like I am scared of working again, specially in a new country, new customs, different language. I also have social anxiety, and I feel like I'm not ready for the huge change. When I first arrived here I would have started wroking straightaway! But now, after 7 months of staying home, I feel like I've gotten even more introverted than usual and I am honestly not lookign forward to leaving my shell. It's so frustrating. lol

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apalachidoremi   10

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1 hour ago, agnesita84 said:

I totally get you. I am going through the same emotional process, although I don't have a job yet. But since I got my EAD, I've gone from bored to stressed. Like you said, I feel like I've gotten used to staying at home these past 7 months, and although at first it was hard not to work, now I feel like I am scared of working again, specially in a new country, new customs, different language. I also have social anxiety, and I feel like I'm not ready for the huge change. When I first arrived here I would have started wroking straightaway! But now, after 7 months of staying home, I feel like I've gotten even more introverted than usual and I am honestly not lookign forward to leaving my shell. It's so frustrating. lol

 

Oh my it was like seeing my own thoughts there lol... geez... On one side it is pressuring because you know that you need to work, earn a living and be productive - help out. But on the other hand like what you've said it's like I've gotten used to this that this is normal for me now.. (being the "houseband" for the past few months)

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apalachidoremi   10

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my and her relatives are both waiting (impatiently sometimes) for me to start work -  I remember not that long ago they were too anxious on why I haven't had a driving license yet (that died when I had mine last month) . . . **sigh** 1 week to go....................

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Catalina Cuqui   17

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Yeah, well, you're not alone. :)
I am now learning how to drive, because being from Europe I never had to, so that's the step number one for me. 

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apalachidoremi   10

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glad to have someone on the same boat lol - I also am just a new driver, well, what can I say - did not need to know how before because from where I came from public transport is still the norm. Am sure you'll learn the ropes real quick.. when do you plan on taking the exams?

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