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  1. I don't know if this will help or not, but when I went to Canada on the way back they asked me who the car belonged to and I said "me" then I said "Well it's registered under my Mom's name" and the boarder person said "So, your Mom" and that was that. Doesn't have my name anywhere on the registration. So i'm sure if he was to say it was registered under his wife's name it'd be ok. Don't know if it would be the same for Mexico or not as i've never driven to Mexico!

  2. Thanks guys. I think it's been close to 3 weeks since we sent off packet 3. Hopefully he'll get packet 4 sometime this week. We were hoping for an interview date around the same date as his medical so he doesn't have to go to London twice. He lives about 2.5 hrs away and doesn't drive, so it's a bit costly to get to London! haha.

  3. Hey all,

    I know there used to be a thread on here for people waiting on packet 4 but I couldn't find it. So I was just kind of wondering who else is playing the waiting game?

    Anyone know how long average is taking to get back packet 4 for right now?

    I'm so ready for all this to be done with :)

  4. Well, you could look up what forms you need for your embassy and start filling those out. You could also apply for the police report because some countries it can take a long time to get back (UK takes up to 40 days). You could also start working on your I-134 evidence of support documents. So yeah, there's quite a bit you can do :)

  5. I wouldn't recommend bringing it over on the flight. We asked the airline about it, and they said you could, but they wouldn't insure it if it was broken on the flight. My fiance has also said he was going to take out the parts (video card, ram, Harddrives etc) and bring those and buy a new case here. You can get a case and power supply for under $100. Much cheaper than buying a whole new computer :)

  6. Thank you all for your replies!

    I hadn't really thought about it the way a few of you have mentioned. The courthouse thing is just because we have to do it, I suppose the real wedding later on can have more meaning. My parents have already told me if I wanted we could live here until the big wedding later on. So in essence if we did that, it wouldn't really feel like we were married anyway. lol. It would feel like the numerous other times he's come to stay for 3 months :). I think if we did that, we'd probably just do a courthouse thing with my parents or something and not really tell anyone about it. Most of the people probably wouldn't really know the difference. If we did that though, i'm so going to be celebrating both dates :o. I better at least get a dinner out on the courthouse date!! lol. I agree with the fact that after all we've been through we deserve our presents too!! haha.

    I don't think we'll be eloping. My uncle had the great idea for us to go to gatlinburg, TN and get married in a cabin. lol. I don't think i'll be doing that either. I do want the big wedding, with the dress and the cake and all that. And obviously my fiance wants that too, and it is important that his family are able to come. Another bad thing about December is the fact that we'd have basically 1 date to get married... Dec 15th. We wouldn't even really get to pick the date! Because, the first week would be too close to Turkey day, 2nd weekend is his sisters birthday (i'm sure she'd want to be attending a wedding on her 16th birthday!), 4th weekend too close to Christmas. lol. Maybe we could have it the weekend before Spring break and go away to Myrtle Beach or Florida as our "honeymoon!" hehe. I wanted to go on a cruise, but that won't be happening unless we wait until after AOS. *Sigh* Why do they have to make it so hard on you? You try and do it all the "Right" way and they like penalize you!

  7. Hey everyone,

    So recently theres been some discussion on wedding plans. Originally we had planned on getting married sometime around December, but after speaking to my parents about it they came up with the idea of having the big "real" wedding later on, and just having a court house thing in December. Main reason being because it's a bit hard for people to get away so close to the holidays to be able to come - and my Dad jokingly said our wedding gifts wouldn't be good either because no one would have money with Christmas shopping. lol.

    Another thing to add to this is, my fiance's sister is getting married in October... the main reason we have to wait so long to get married because we probably could have nearly had the visa by now. We didn't want to risk him not being able to go to her wedding though!! Downfall being, he will most likely have to come over in October because with the dates right now we'll seriously be lucky if we can even hold it out until October for him to come. So, original plan was for me to go over there for his sister's wedding and he'd come back with me. He rather likes this idea my parents had though about having the big wedding on down the road. I know i've seen other people on here say similar. He wants to do this mainly because he's worried about his family having money to get over so close to his sisters wedding. Afraid she and her fiance won't have the money to come over and his parents won't have the money because they are helping his sister pay for their wedding.

    I understand all that, but at the same time I keep thinking to myself the fact that if we have a court house wedding in December (because we'd have to get married or the visa would expire) and have the real thing later, will it actually have the same value? I don't want to celebrate my anniversary date from some random date we picked for the convience of everyone else - I want to celebrate it on the actual date we signed the papers and were legally married. My fiance is totally the opposite... he says he would want to celebrate it on the date we were married infront of all our friends and family, and the court house thing would just be a minor technicality. I just feel like if we wait to have the wedding it won't mean as much, feel a bit phoney. It'll just be an event to get all dressed up, take pictures, and get gifts from people that we should have already done months prior. If we go with this idea the big wedding will probably be in like March or April. The wedding will have nicer weather obviously (December in Ohio - blah). I just don't know though...

    What would you do?

    Ps. Sorry this is a bit long!!!

  8. Darn! I'm too young to drink in the US! That's a bit on the unfair side! I can't even get drunk to drown away my sorrows.

    Oh well. I just keep telling myself *ONLY* 8 months to go until I see him again, but the good thing is.... it will be for GOOD and we will never be apart again! Thank god for that. At least I have something to look forward to.

    Then I think about it more and get upset because I realize we've not been apart that long in about 3 years. *sigh*

  9. Why yes, I believe it did help me by ranting a bit :)!

    Anyway, I am very thankful that no one in my family treats my fiance that way. They all think its quite interesting and like to hear his stories about British culture etc. My family is pretty open minded about such things. My background is a bit of a mix of everything :lol:. I do have a few family members who can't seem to keep straight where he is from though, I had someone ask me if he was from INDIA!... How can you mistake a Brit for an Indian? That's a bit beyond me.

  10. ££££££££££££££ I've missed them! I still caryy £2 in my purse to remind me of what good quality english money is :P

    I saw my first 50 cent coin today, I have to say that was quite exiting!

    Back to topic - I'm never sure if it's worth picking an airline and getting the frequent flyer miles going, or to just go for the cheapest (and usually most inconvenient). I'm guessing I will be flying to England and back to CA twice a year, what's that - like 24000 miles? You must get something good for that...

    The last time I went to England it was on frequent flyer miles (my parents love me! haha) with AA and it cost 40,000 miles for a "Free" ticket after taxes and fees actually ended up being $75 (the ticket price was $550). I'm sure it's different amounts with different airlines though.

  11. Did you join in the discussion to re-educate them? Or let them just ramble on?

    Personally I wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut.

    I think I was too much in shock to say anything!! It was right at the end of class too, so I didn't really get the chance to say anything, although if the discussion comes back up again tomorrow, I defiantely will have a few things on my mind to say after gathering my thoughts about the situation. And the funny thing is, my teacher is Norweigan! You would think she would have been heated about it too!

  12. I suppose they don't even realize it's the other way around too, Women petitioning for MEN from foreign countries. I'd like to see a MAN pop out a baby :lol: I suppose they don't understand the fact that you can truly LOVE someone who you can't see and touch day in and day out. Which is why I feel the people on this website are far stronger than any other individuals i've met before :D.

  13. I fly out of Cincinnati and unfortunately the only company that does direct to LGW or LHR is Delta. When I went over in Dec I had to fly to Dallas first!!! Totally out of the way! My fiance got lucky the last two times he came here. The first time, he had a connection in Atlanta that got cancelled and he got put on a direct (through delta). Then last time he had a connection in Newerk with Continental that got cancelled and they put him on the direct Delta flight! Why can't I get that lucky?

    Anyway, normally you can find pretty decent deals from Cincy to London. I don't think i've ever paid over $500. Last time my fiance came here it was 281 pounds (in July) from LGW to Cleveland to Cincy.

    I've seen Indy, IN and Louisville, KY run some good deals to LGW before too.

  14. Hey everyone,

    I know I haven't written on here in a while... but, I had a major annoyance yesterday that I just felt I needed to get off my chest and share with everyone. So, yesterday I was in my Business law class... and we were talking about contracts. The teacher decides to share that marriage is a type of contract, but not by today's standards, like the standards back in the day when dowrys were around. Well then some girl got on her high horse not knowing anything about immigrations and started talking about Mail order brides, asking what rights they had, if that was a contract, etc.

    I suppose I wasn't really upset until about 1/2 the class joined in talking about things that they are so shaded as to know nothing about. (By the way where I live its a bunch of hicks that have never been out of the county let alone the country to know anything about the rest of the world). I know someone else on here wrote recently about mail order brides, and I wrote back saying we are all humans it doesn't really matter how you find the person you love... but these people, in this class, just went on and on about how bad they feel for the average American Joe who goes on these websites. How he has no hope of finding love and the girls (who are all from the phillipines in their words) are only coming over to get visas and pop out children so they can stay here. For one, i'd like to know how an average Joe could even afford it! :lol: Plane tickets to the phillipines are exxxpensive, I have an aunt from the phillipines... They go back every so often to see family. Oh yeah and of course she didn't marry my uncle just to pop out kids and get a green card.

    I know my situation is different from some others, but it really upset me to hear people talk about this the way they did. For one, they have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to immigrations laws... Imbra now makes you write if you found your fiance/fiancee through a type of agency like a mail order bride. And of course they further scrutizine those people to see if it's a legit relationship. I will agree that sometimes there are unfortunate events where people get through that are marrying for the wrong reasons, but not everyone is like that! These people made it seem like all immigrants were only out to get US citizenship by popping out babies in the US after they get here so they can stay. The whole ordeal from these totally oblivious people really rubbed me the wrong way!

    If you got this far in the reading, thanks for listening to me rant! :lol:

  15. It'd be ok. People in California are more used to paying outrageous prices on everything! I'm sure they'd protest less than people in other states, plus there more for the clean air acts and all that jazz.

    Do they make those swirly bulbs in 100watt? My lizard needs 100W bulbs. I might look into this! They last longer too eh? Seems like i'm always replacing light bulbs, of course at about $.25 each it doesn't break my heart when one burns out.

    Your lizard probably needs the heat of a 100 watt bulb, not the equivalent light output. Fluorescents run cooler so a 23 watt will have the light output of a 100 watt bulb but much less heat. I don't want to see your lizard die.

    Ah! He'd be ok... he's a desert lizard, i'm sure it'd be a bit of a vacation from his normal 90-100 degree heat! :lol: I might have to play around with different ones, he has electronic thermometers i'd make sure it didn't get too hot :)

    By the way, I had to watch a movie last week in a class at college called "The inconvient truth" It would show you that California is actually making good measures to help our environment... unlike the rest of US who tried to SUE california for their higher emissions standards on their vehicles. I'm all for my gaz guzzling (24mpg) compact car... but then again, I wish that smart cars (50-60 mpg) weren't illegal in the US :(. I'd have me a hot little Smart roadster! :lol: European countries are so far advanced compared to the US on such things... better emissions and better gas milage - so using less fossil fuels. Only makes sense really. Although i'm wondering why their gas prices are still so high.

  16. It'd be ok. People in California are more used to paying outrageous prices on everything! I'm sure they'd protest less than people in other states, plus there more for the clean air acts and all that jazz.

    Do they make those swirly bulbs in 100watt? My lizard needs 100W bulbs. I might look into this! They last longer too eh? Seems like i'm always replacing light bulbs, of course at about $.25 each it doesn't break my heart when one burns out.

  17. Congrats! But I thought you might like to know that you put your interview date in your timeline wrong-- You have it as next year. :P

    Ouch! 500 days! That would really suck! :lol: I've been impatient since day 1!

  18. I like vanilla brown sugar, and exotic coconut. I applied for these places back in Oct-Nov when they should have been hiring for Christmas rush! B&BW is the one who offered me 10 hours a week, I pretty much laughed and said it wasn't worth the gas it would cost me to get there. On a side note, does anyone know on the DS-156 for the part where it asks if you intend to work and put the address and name of the employer... what would you put if you do pending work authorization but don't have an employer?

  19. I've tried like career builder and monster.com, problem is where I live it seems most of the jobs in what I used to do (data entry and customer service) are on the other side of town (about 30-40 mins away) which is just too far to drive each way everyday while going to school, and most can't work around my school schedule. It's a bummer. I even stooped as low as applying at like sears, kohls, target, bath and body works, petsmart, best buy... nothing!!! All major retailers. You would think someone who has experience, recommendations, dean's list in college etc, would be able to find a freaking job!

  20. Oh yeah. My Mom is being the sponsor too. She kind of gave me a dazed look though when I told her all the stuff we had to send in! :):lol: My parents both love him to bits too. I am hoping to be back to work sometime soon. I haven't had a job since July! The money situation is getting a bit bad. I'm a full-time student... and I was working full-time and if I hadn't lost my job I would have been able to sponsor my fiance by myself, but the place I worked closed down for business :(. Since i'm young no one seems to want to pay me anywhere near what I was making there, which is sad really because I'm one of the hardest working people I know! I deserve a good job, I hate what our country is coming to! Since July i've applied for about 30 places, got 2 interviews... one offered me 10 hours a week!! What a joke! The other wrote me a letter saying they passed me up, and the reason i'm sure was because I was going to England over Christmas and they had a rule that you had to work Christmas eve, which I saw when I turned in the application to them, but... I hadn't bought my plane ticket yet! :lol:

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