O&M

My fiancee interviewed this Tuesday and was approved. She went into embassy and a woman checked her packet 3 and told her what was complete and hat was missing. She had to complete one form and then continued on the process.
At the window for the interview, my fiancee gave three notebooks and a few forms to the officer behind the glass. 1--medical clearance 2--photos of our time together in Thailand to prove we were together along with copies of my tickets to Thailand, and 3--msn chatlogs,4--Thai cell phone bills from. 5--police clearance.
the man then looked through the paperwork and asked the following questions:
1. How did you meet your fiance?
2. How many time he visit?
3. How did he find you?
4. How often you chat?
5. He has children?
6. His children to come to Thailand?
7. Do you have children?
8. How often you talk each other?
9. How you contact him?
10.When was the first time he came to Thailand to meet you?
11. When was the second time he came to thailand to meet you?
12. When will you leave your work to go to the usa?
The man who did the interview was farang, but he did the interview in Thai language.
C

Put your hand up if your feeling lucky today!
*keeps hand down*

Do you think its gotten easier for you as a couple or more difficult as time progresses waiting for visa?
I feel like its up and down. I don't think life has paused really, just kind of spinning in a slow circle now while still moving in a forward direction so to speak hehe.
I went to visit my fiancee for a second time about 40 days ago. Now it seems much harder being apart than it did our first time. Maybe because we developed so much more being together.
Got to another level, you know. One day she was just walking around the room doing some stuff, and starting singing to herself.
My first time hearing her like this, so natural and carefree. It was just a little song she had in her head, but it was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
It was not enough time, only about 13 days. Every moment of each day I savored like it was my last on earth, for real.
At least back then I knew when I was going to go and see her again. Now we have plans for the future, but the timeline is pretty much unknown.
Skype is ok. Lately I've been like I'd give anything, just to be able to reach through the screen and be near her...
Tomorrow is another day, like all the rest waiting... Or will it be different? Maybe just maybe I'll receive an SMS/email that will stop the spin cycle, and give us a shove to the future.
Stay positive... Keep on doing what your doing. Relax with your friends, try to be happy and live life. Bless to everyone waiting, time hasn't stopped. Our time is soon.

Do you think its gotten easier for you as a couple or more difficult as time progresses waiting for visa?
I feel like its up and down. I don't think life has paused really, just kind of spinning in a slow circle now while still moving in a forward direction so to speak hehe.
I went to visit my fiancee for a second time about 40 days ago. Now it seems much harder being apart than it did our first time. Maybe because we developed so much more being together.
Got to another level, you know. One day she was just walking around the room doing some stuff, and starting singing to herself.
My first time hearing her like this, so natural and carefree. It was just a little song she had in her head, but it was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
It was not enough time, only about 13 days. Every moment of each day I savored like it was my last on earth, for real.
At least back then I knew when I was going to go and see her again. Now we have plans for the future, but the timeline is pretty much unknown.
Skype is ok. Lately I've been like I'd give anything, just to be able to reach through the screen and be near her...
Tomorrow is another day, like all the rest waiting... Or will it be different? Maybe just maybe I'll receive an SMS/email that will stop the spin cycle, and give us a shove to the future.
Stay positive... Keep on doing what your doing. Relax with your friends, try to be happy and live life. Bless to everyone waiting, time hasn't stopped. Our time is soon.

Do you think its gotten easier for you as a couple or more difficult as time progresses waiting for visa?
I feel like its up and down. I don't think life has paused really, just kind of spinning in a slow circle now while still moving in a forward direction so to speak hehe.
I went to visit my fiancee for a second time about 40 days ago. Now it seems much harder being apart than it did our first time. Maybe because we developed so much more being together.
Got to another level, you know. One day she was just walking around the room doing some stuff, and starting singing to herself.
My first time hearing her like this, so natural and carefree. It was just a little song she had in her head, but it was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
It was not enough time, only about 13 days. Every moment of each day I savored like it was my last on earth, for real.
At least back then I knew when I was going to go and see her again. Now we have plans for the future, but the timeline is pretty much unknown.
Skype is ok. Lately I've been like I'd give anything, just to be able to reach through the screen and be near her...
Tomorrow is another day, like all the rest waiting... Or will it be different? Maybe just maybe I'll receive an SMS/email that will stop the spin cycle, and give us a shove to the future.
Stay positive... Keep on doing what your doing. Relax with your friends, try to be happy and live life. Bless to everyone waiting, time hasn't stopped. Our time is soon.

Do you think its gotten easier for you as a couple or more difficult as time progresses waiting for visa?
I feel like its up and down. I don't think life has paused really, just kind of spinning in a slow circle now while still moving in a forward direction so to speak hehe.
I went to visit my fiancee for a second time about 40 days ago. Now it seems much harder being apart than it did our first time. Maybe because we developed so much more being together.
Got to another level, you know. One day she was just walking around the room doing some stuff, and starting singing to herself.
My first time hearing her like this, so natural and carefree. It was just a little song she had in her head, but it was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
It was not enough time, only about 13 days. Every moment of each day I savored like it was my last on earth, for real.
At least back then I knew when I was going to go and see her again. Now we have plans for the future, but the timeline is pretty much unknown.
Skype is ok. Lately I've been like I'd give anything, just to be able to reach through the screen and be near her...
Tomorrow is another day, like all the rest waiting... Or will it be different? Maybe just maybe I'll receive an SMS/email that will stop the spin cycle, and give us a shove to the future.
Stay positive... Keep on doing what your doing. Relax with your friends, try to be happy and live life. Bless to everyone waiting, time hasn't stopped. Our time is soon.

I've started down the long road of the visa journey. The name of this website, I think is perfect. It is a true journey, probably the most important/nerve wracking/exciting journey I have ever undertaken I'm my life so far.
I have been on many journeys in my young life of 29 years, but this one feels different. People have met me recently and said, you seem like an old soul. I've been around the block a few times, but never had this feeling before.
The only way I can describe it is, a feeling of great unknown. This has been very hard for me so far, and I've just started. I received my NOA1 on January 20, 2012. Some days I just want to sleep, because when I wake many hours have gone by.
I wake up, go to work everyday check the calendar. We talk everyday online, video call on Skype several times a week. I keep a constant watch on my email, checking my phone for an SMS message. The little notification light goes off on my phone,
a green blink. Could it be the government alerting me so some action on my petition? Nope, just another false alarm. A message from her which fills my heart with joy, another friend saying hello, a stupid automated server alert...
I think to myself, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day. They deposited my check quickly, they provide ways of alerting you instantly. So why does this have to take so long?
Most days are good, some are a little sad. This year, I have 136 hours of vacation total. That's 17 work days I can spend with her in Thailand. Oh how I wish she could receive a Tourist visa and come see me.
But now that we have started the journey of a K1 visa, I do not want anything to slow and or complicate that process any more than is already going to happen. I'm a Technical Systems Analyst by trade.
In my world things happen almost instantaneously, or as close to that as we can possibly get hehe. Verification is done in milliseconds, its either true or false, on or off. If a failure is going to happen, we have warnings.
To think that someone, a person is going to have to go through all this physical paper I have submitted and pass judgement on us is hard for me to comprehend. This packet of paper, as innocent as it may look holds the key to our future in America.
I've already told her, Babe if something happens and we can not get you a visa I will come live in Thailand with you. I've checked and rechecked the application again and again before sending it in. Looking line by line, as if I was examining the most
complex code looking for that one tiny mistake that's going to make everything crash and result in complete failure. But if I have to leave my country, I will. I call this Exo Plan Alpha. Sell everything, give my cat to my parents, live in my office for a few months saving money
and I'm gone. Maybe that's my way of trying to have a feeling of control in a process that has so many unknowns.
My next trip to Thailand, now 1,726 hours until I see her again. That is with no delays in travel. People at work ask me, wow that is such a long trip how can you do it? I don't think they can understand what is it like to be so far from someone who means so much to you.
It's hard to explain unless you have felt it. I'll be so happy when that 18+ hour hits of flying, because I know unless the plane goes down, in a matter of hours I will be able to hold her in my arms again. Stick me in the middle between two crying babies,
between an old man passing gas and a traveling business man getting boozed up breathing on me as he talks. I want to be on that plane right now flying hour after hour, her waiting for me at the airport. Soon, soon...
I want to say, thanks for this website, its members and the invaluable information posted here. God bless us all on our journeys...