winters

Thank you all

I'm still in shock, it's really over.. I just bought tickets and still, I just can't imagine I'm not going to wake up everyday wondering. I leave on the 17th and return together on the 25th.

it's really done.

Thanks for all the help gang.

Hi Everyone,

It is my great pleasure to inform you that our Visa was approved yesterday (evening for me). After a mere 357 days... Oy said it went very smoothly not a long wait, or many questions.

I suppose I better find something formal to wear ^^

Best regards and luck to everyone in process hang in there.

Hello Ladywhite,

She will definitely be taking her old passport with her, perhaps It was an over site on everyones part not to get it simply extended.

I do not believe anyone from the law firm will go with her, though she would appreciate it.

I think the interview is a moment you can't share well with anyone except your partner. She will stay in a hotel nearby until it's resolved,

her family is a big support albeit over the phone. I wish I could be there but I simply cannot, I'll wait for the results then make the travel plans.

It's a lot of money for my income all the back and forth traveling, we've waited almost a year now just to do this process.

I'm just hoping for the best at this point, it will go well.

kap koon krup

Best Regards

winters

I finally received my visa WOO HOO!

I'm over the moon!!!

We can finally be together - it's so exciting

GOOD LUCK to all of you still waiting.... there is light at the end of the tunnel

Congratulations

Best wishes!

Awsome,

Thanks gang again for the knowledge, and best wishes on your wedding Kang Lang.

I'll just tell her cool down, your being overly dramatic and it hasn't even been a year waiting yet.

LOL I don't know how she puts up with me....

Thanks again.

Greetings,

Thanks to you good people, my fiancee thinks I am a visa guru now. Even though the interview letter took 10 days to arrive,

we definately have an interview on the 5th. We'd been going over all the paperwork last week and discovered her passport

could be a problem, she wasn't sure exactly when it would expire. I asked her to go to the lawyers office and check it herself

I'm not taking any chances right now. Sure enough it would expire, not only did the law offi ce overlook that.

They informed her she has to get a new passport and likely would be starting the whole process over which naturaly freaked

her out.

This didn't sound even remotely correct to me, passports get lost or damaged/ expire etc. I asked her not to worry about what they said,

and apply for a new one ASAP. Which she did yesterday, should be here in about a week.

This is not a renewed passport, this is a new one, new number. She will be keeping her old one to take to the embassy as well.

I searched the forums and couldn't find any clear case for a new passport at the interview. Does anyone know if this will be a real problem

at this point? Do we need to contact the embassy?

My fiancee has been on a long rollercoaster. Saying game over at this point is rediculous and cruel. I think she must have missunderstood them or has been missinformed.

Another question I had, regarding the interview. Would letters snail mailed from my family, my brothers and parents just well wishes and greetings on paper, help at all? I don't think we'll have any trouble proving our relationship, however it never hurts to do more.

I am very glad for VJ where I get clear and honest advisements.

Thank you

out of curiosity did she not just apply for an extension? my bf has a passport that was meant to expire in 2005 and he has an extension in his passport that is good for a few years. maybe they have stopped doing that?

Hello,

I too thought there may have been options when she told me she had a new passport/number. Frankly that should have been explained completly by our ineffectual law office before she went to apply. At this point there isn't any going back. I think you bring up a very good point for anyone else in this situation.

Thanks guys

I suspected, this seemed to be a common enough issue, not to have an easy solution. So we do not need to file any change form, or contact

the embassy prior to the interview?

Best regards

winters

Greetings,

Thanks to you good people, my fiancee thinks I am a visa guru now. Even though the interview letter took 10 days to arrive,

we definately have an interview on the 5th. We'd been going over all the paperwork last week and discovered her passport

could be a problem, she wasn't sure exactly when it would expire. I asked her to go to the lawyers office and check it herself

I'm not taking any chances right now. Sure enough it would expire, not only did the law offi ce overlook that.

They informed her she has to get a new passport and likely would be starting the whole process over which naturaly freaked

her out.

This didn't sound even remotely correct to me, passports get lost or damaged/ expire etc. I asked her not to worry about what they said,

and apply for a new one ASAP. Which she did yesterday, should be here in about a week.

This is not a renewed passport, this is a new one, new number. She will be keeping her old one to take to the embassy as well.

I searched the forums and couldn't find any clear case for a new passport at the interview. Does anyone know if this will be a real problem

at this point? Do we need to contact the embassy?

My fiancee has been on a long rollercoaster. Saying game over at this point is rediculous and cruel. I think she must have missunderstood them or has been missinformed.

Another question I had, regarding the interview. Would letters snail mailed from my family, my brothers and parents just well wishes and greetings on paper, help at all? I don't think we'll have any trouble proving our relationship, however it never hurts to do more.

I am very glad for VJ where I get clear and honest advisements.

Thank you

Congratulations!

Hi,

You might also try contacting a law firm in bahrain (if you havn't) and have them draw up a letter that could satisfy the Thai embassy.

They will likely have delt with this issue a great deal.

Hello,

It really is a long process, I learned a great deal more of several languages and some fairly authentic IMHO Thai, Vientiane cooking while I waited.

My kids passed several grades.

Theres all kinds of ways to pass time, I strangled a dog last week.

If you really want this to happen, you'll get through it. It really is a long process, so make sure it's what you want.

Read this site and you'll see your among many people who have endured waiting.

BTW, the dog, I was joking.

Congratulations!

sawadee krup everyone!

That's great news about vonage, I use vonage i'll definately get that added. I was using nobelcom calling card, the talk thailand plan at about 1.2 cents a minute which isn't bad

especialy if your like me and most often use a cell phone.

I wonder what else people have learned now over the years of distance communications.

When I snail mail, at first I used Fed ex, which cost 45.00USD to send a few pages and photos (don't do this), now I always just go to the post office, and mail a letter or package for just a few dollars.

cheap and relaible.

When I need to send money, I opened another free checking account and just sent a card to my fiancee, now I can just pop into my online banking and transfer free,

She's gonna leave the card with her mom, so we can send her money too. (I didn't activate the card till it had arrived)

When I buy plane tickets, I always use farecompare.com

That's all I can think of at the moment. Thanks for the vonage tip!

Best regards

Thanks!

I agree this was an extra long and often frustrarting wait. Maybe my experience will help someone avoid it.

Looking back I should have:

Talked to my lawyer more often, weekly updates at least, assuming they will priioritize your petition because you paid them

is obviously not the way to go.

Started my paperwork/records/medicals early, especialy the foreign records which can be very difficult or slow to aquire.

I should have made contact with the embassy when I first suspected trouble, it might have saved a lot of anxiety and time.

All of this information is easily available here on VJ.com and people who come here have more hands on knowledge then folks

like me, who have hired a firm to handle the entire process. I first came here in 2005 and I became fairly familure with the immigration process

however I did not apply it to my own petition, I simp,y took comfort in others success stories.

At this point, I'm just going to take a breath and enjoy the successful aquisition of an interview. I will be getting a list of all documents

my lawyer has and apply what I have learned here to making sure, he has packaged everything we need prior to the interview ^^

I can't thank you guys enough for picking me up and giving me some direction. a lot of people here wont ever know they helped me get back in the game.

Thank you

Woooooooooooo I just got this in email

Dear Mr. X

Thank you for your email inquiry. Your case number is BNKXXXXXXX. We

received your case from NVC on March 23, 2007. We scheduled an

interview appointment for the applicant, Ms. X, on 05-OCT-2007

at 07:30 am. We have mailed the Packet 4 which is an interview

appointment Packet to this address on September 5, 2007.

Sweet!

I am so totaly happy right now. Thanks for all the help gang, I'll keep you posted.

Damn I better stop her before she goes down to the lawyers office and sticks a forkl in him ><

just awsome

Hi,

I just emailed the embassy, without the BKK number, but with everything else asked for in the responder, I didn't get the auto responder this time so maybe that's a good sign.

it's the best I could come up with at the moment. I say the NVC have no record, because I was able to use their automated voice system, and it responded, no record of my USCIS code. I've been trying to reach a person there most of today.

Sheesh if a person could simply look at the files and tell me, it's gonna happen, or its not gonna happen. either way I'd be better off.

Thanks for all the advice Qbertz, I can't be too angry not having that number is more my fault, I could have called anytime back in march and had it. I trusted in my lawyers experience to handle everything I should have followed up. He didn't actualy do anything terribly wrong, we all make a few mistakes, however I can't help regretting or dwelling on the last 3 months lost to blunders.

On a brighter side, My Fiancee was in better spirits today, not singing, but at least laughing, maybe going to yak yak at the folks at the lawyers office is putting her there. She doesn't really enjoy herassing anyone, but at this point, I wont stand in her way.

It's after 12:00EST now so I wont be getting through to them today, I'll email my lawyer, he should be awake now and have the BKK code as well.

If someone reads my email, I may not even need it, "here's hope". Thanks

Best regards

winters

Thank you all for your advice, in this thread and in PM's.

I back tracked the paper trail, and contacted the USCIS, who of course sent me onto the NVC I have had no luck contacting them

either by email or phone they seem to be very busy right now.

So as of now, my plan is attempt to contact the embassy, which is where I started out and keep trying till someone answers my emails even though I do not have the NVC code.

Since the NVC has no record of my petition apparently. My fiancee is going to the lawyers office today, to tell him EXACTLY how she is feeling right now, better him then me I think.

At this stage of the process I personally can't see how it would be wise to fire him and start over. If I can simply make contact with someone at the embassy, who knows where

we are in the schedule, we would be fine. I know it shouldn't take 2 months to send an interview letter so someone had to make a mistake somewhere.

I'm also going to mail my congressman this seems well outside of normal embassy practice. I need to know who has my petition, and why they still have it.

Has anyone had to contact the BKKUS embassy by phone before? and if you have, could you please post or PM me the phone number.

I can't even bring up the web site right now.

I have more patience then moss but waiting hasn't produced. Any advice, or course I may be overlooking would be appreciated.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! chok dee laeo khap!

Sleep well Vann, WOOOOHOOO!!!! indeed I couldn't express more then that.

I can't promise updates (obviously after years of 0 posts).

You have a lot ahead of you..I think you could help a lot of people.

I had a bad day, and you gave me that uplift I needed, a success story, I was a small part of that experience. I thank you for that

My best regards to you and your Pinay, (I think thats lady in Phino?)

Congratulations

winters

You deserve to be this happy, enjoy it. I feel like I'm over posting, but who cares, damn, you really deserve this.

Awsome Grats =)

Hehe you'll definitely hear from her the moment she knows and has the chance to text, your together in this, you two made it this far together.

Your making me happy just reading about it.

I dunno what to say! Needless to say, I was very pessimistic about the success of this process. I'm still indifferent to the fact that I've made it this far. I still can't believe it!

Thank you very much!

I hope everything goes well with your situation as well. I read about it and really felt for you as I felt all that same angst.

It was this forum that really got me through some tough times with this process. I sincerely hope everything goes all right for you. I didn't bother with a lawyer in my process. I did it the risky way and just chanced it. Trust me--I came into this process completely pessimistic and unorganized. You, sir, will make it through this. Trust me, I'm not very organized with this kind of stuff, LOL!

Hey, everyone! LOL! Nope! No word yet but I'm still waiting! It's 2 AM in my place and I don't care! I won't sleep a wink till I hear from her!

Best of luck to both of you!!! You have our prayers for a happy and speedy interview!!!

Thanks

Thanks Vann, I'm sure I'll be ok things have a way of working out. I'm not sure a lawyer was needed at this point, I'm feeling a bit lost frankly. I'm fairly careful about everything, I think I should have just handled this, I hired a lawyer because my girlfriend couldn't read english forms well enough, nor I Thai forms. Who knows what's right, I won't give advice on that. Your inspiring me, I thank you. If I had any advice at all, it would be learn all you can about the culture and the language, it will serve you well.

I'm glued too, your doing what I hope to at some point in the future. BTW if you haven't picked up tickets yet,

farecompare.com generaly gives me the best prices. I think you better start packing

Hehe you'll definitely hear from her the moment she knows and has the chance to text, your together in this, you two made it this far together.

Your making me happy just reading about it.