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Sadly, we're back.
It looks like it has been 100+ degrees for 50+ days this summer in Austin, TX. Ouch! Bangkok's weather was in the high 80's to low 90's.
We traveled around quite a bit on this trip. Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phetchabun, Chaiyapum, Bangkok, Koh Samui, Koh Toa, and Phuket. Wife's family up North, East, and South. I have friends that live in Bangkok and Phuket.
The number of tourists, everywhere we went, seemed to be wayyyyy down and the prices that we were paying for things seemed a little higher than the last time we'd been in Thailand.
Oh, and there was substantially more neon on Soi Cowboy than a couple of years ago! Other than that, everything seemed to be about the same.
Still plan to retire in Thailand.
dvd
Sounds like a great trip, even with all the traveling! Sounds like the trips I used to take when I lived in the Marshall Islands. Have been to all those places except Mai Sai, Phetchabun, Chaiyapum, and Koh Toa, but I've been to many others to make up for it!
I really enjoyed my trip to Koh Samui. Was that your first time to Koh Samui, and how was the economy there?
Not surprised that prices are a little higher, in order to make up for the drop in tourism. Will have to get back to Soi Cowboy to see the new lights!
I'm totally with you on the retire in Thailand part!
Koh Samui's economy is down. My wife's aunt, who lives there, said her business is down 50+ percent. Also, I talked with a dive shop owner who said his business was down 30+ percent.
It was kind of nice to have room to move around the island. It was high season, but it didn't feel like it. Things will turn around though. Oh, the dive shop owner was saying that they just can't get a break. Tsunami, bird flu, political coop, global economic disaster, swine flu, red shirt protesters, etc......... I felt for him.
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Texas bar in Washington Square soi 22.
http://www.diranart.com/store/index.php?ac...p;productId=172
How the hell did I miss that place?!!!
Love the fact that there's an Aggie flag hanging from the ceiling!
Gig 'Em Aggies!!!
PS - Love the obligitory boobies down in front!!!
The bar that's next to the Texas bar in Washington Square has some very eye opening experiences available. Check it out if you are ever in the area. We just returned to Texas, from Thailand, and I'm suprisingly missing Bangkok's weather ..... it's crazy hot here in Texas this summer.
DVD
Welcome home DVD, though if you're like me... you'd rather not have come back!
How was the trip/vacation?
Sadly, we're back.
It looks like it has been 100+ degrees for 50+ days this summer in Austin, TX. Ouch! Bangkok's weather was in the high 80's to low 90's.
We traveled around quite a bit on this trip. Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phetchabun, Chaiyapum, Bangkok, Koh Samui, Koh Toa, and Phuket. Wife's family up North, East, and South. I have friends that live in Bangkok and Phuket.
The number of tourists, everywhere we went, seemed to be wayyyyy down and the prices that we were paying for things seemed a little higher than the last time we'd been in Thailand.
Oh, and there was substantially more neon on Soi Cowboy than a couple of years ago! Other than that, everything seemed to be about the same.
Still plan to retire in Thailand.
dvd
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Texas bar in Washington Square soi 22.
http://www.diranart.com/store/index.php?ac...p;productId=172
How the hell did I miss that place?!!!
Love the fact that there's an Aggie flag hanging from the ceiling!
Gig 'Em Aggies!!!
PS - Love the obligitory boobies down in front!!!
The bar that's next to the Texas bar in Washington Square has some very eye opening experiences available. Check it out if you are ever in the area. We just returned to Texas, from Thailand, and I'm suprisingly missing Bangkok's weather ..... it's crazy hot here in Texas this summer.
DVD
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Hi Everyone,
For the past four years, I've been sporadically traveling back and forth to Thailand (first to study monkeys, but then after that to visit the woman who is now my fiance). Now that my fiance has been approved at her K1 visa interview (which happened yesterday), I really need to figure out some deal where I can earn flight miles for buying plane tickets to go back and forth to Thailand for the next ~50 years. Has anybody here got some advice for how to do this/ which airline to approach about it?? I plan to buy my fiance's plane ticket this week.
Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you very much.
Check out United's frequent flier program. Sign up for a Visa United Credit Card and they give you around 30,000 miles just for doing so. They'll give you a mile for every dollar purchased on the card. I pay for everything except my mortgage with that card. There are many promotions with cell phone companies, etc. that give out quite a bit of miles for signing up for their service. I think I got 5k miles for signing up with netflix. 5k miles for adding a line to my phone plan. Anyway ...
Also, at some point they'll offer you a business card and give younaround 15,000 miles for getting it. (I cancel that card every now and then and wait for them to offer me another one). I think it's a program worth checking out.
Good Luck
Dvd
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Triple check on the birth certificate. That seems to be a big issue with AOS from Thailand. It should be much easier to sort out while there. I am still not sure that what my DIL has is adequate. I'm sure the USCIS will let us know soon enough if it isn't. The Embassy ended up keeping the original of what she took to her interview, leaving her with the photo copy in her file. It was supposed to be the other way around. Perhaps it will show up at the AOS interview and she can ask for it back.
-Thai Mom
We had a lot of trouble with the birth certificate. Obviously, it's a lot easier to square away bc issues while you are in Thailand. We learned the hard way.
Passing the interview doesn't mean anything regarding the validity of the birth certificate. Turns out my wife passed WITHOUT one in her possession. (I did not go to Thailand for the interview)
Yes, triple check the birth certificate. The birth certificate that my wife's father had made at the amphur (after she was in the USA) did not include the date-of-birth!!! Funny now ... not then!
and ..... after that, triple check the translated birth certificate for accuracy. Ours had a mistake! (easier to do when you aren't having a thai family member doing all the legwork in Thailand after your fiance has arrived in the USA)
Oh, my wife did not pack her non-birth-certificate when she came to the states.(yes, she knew to) So, somehow, make sure your fiance understands the importance of getting it packed before departing for the USA.
Dvd
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Sincerely The Wire is a dramatized, sanitized version of Baltimore city. To say the public schools are off the hook is an understatement. We have a new superintendent who was born in Cuba and cut his teeth in NYC schools. We shall see what a few years under his guidance will produce: he's reshuffled personnel, surplussing many, and paid students who improved their high school state exam grades to passing.
I'm in Bangkok and I'm going to post/rant about public schools.
You can shuffle things around all you want, but, in the end, the same students are walking into the same classrooms with basically the same teachers. These teachers are on their own with no help from anyone outside of the classroom walls. They're lucky to see one administrator in their room the entire year. Any change in results is basically due to randomness, but positive results will be attributed to one or two of a countless number of variables.
It kills me that we judge schools "improvement" on the percentage of students that pass the test compared to the previous year's group. The whole thing is a joke. Also, a few kids just off the "bubble" pass because they get paid to try harder and the entire school is judged to have improved because the passing rate increases. ha. Nobody even looks at the average students ... to see if any they did better or worse than they did previous year.
Good luck public schools. Rant over.
DVD
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Hey Brother John,
Good to hear from you! Actually, once I read your prior post about amending your past year's returns to claim Rin's kids in Thailand, even though they were still in school in Thailand, I 'mentally' went out and bought my own bottle of Camus!
I made another mental note to get back to you about this topic...but thought I would research it first a bit...AAm actually has 2 kids, both in school. However, her son is now 20 and like all kids, too deeply involved with college and friends/girls to want to want to move to the USA now.
So...I wonder if I could claim both of them, since they were 19 & 13 at the time of last year's filing...and both in school in Thailand?Mark - I would think the older child would be allowed as long as they are a full-time student. The potential issue will be the SSN. I filed my amended return for 2006 after Rin's children had their GCs and SSNs. You'd have to file with ITINs. Not sure if that would be an issue or not. The IRS help line was not helpful as they said "try it and see if they allow it". The IRS won't be punitive if you can explain your reasoning based on their instructions, so why not try (a "no" only costs you time and a postage stamp)?
Best of luck,
John
FYI - We were denied an ITIN and had to wait until my step-daughter had her ss#. Once she had it, we ammended the previous year's return (the year her mom and I married) and claimed her on it (even though, she was never in the USA that year).
DVD
DVD - What was the reason given for denying the ITIN application?
If I'm remembering right (and I stress IF!), they said that she hadn't been in the USA long enough or something like she hadn't aquired enough time in the states. (she was never in the states)
We tried for an ITIN because I knew that Mexican parents, who have children living in Mexico, whom had never been here in the states, ..... are afforded ITINs.
Later, I found out that the USA has treaties with a number of countries to allow this. Thailand is not one of them.
DVD
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Hey Brother John,
Good to hear from you! Actually, once I read your prior post about amending your past year's returns to claim Rin's kids in Thailand, even though they were still in school in Thailand, I 'mentally' went out and bought my own bottle of Camus!
I made another mental note to get back to you about this topic...but thought I would research it first a bit...AAm actually has 2 kids, both in school. However, her son is now 20 and like all kids, too deeply involved with college and friends/girls to want to want to move to the USA now.
So...I wonder if I could claim both of them, since they were 19 & 13 at the time of last year's filing...and both in school in Thailand?Mark - I would think the older child would be allowed as long as they are a full-time student. The potential issue will be the SSN. I filed my amended return for 2006 after Rin's children had their GCs and SSNs. You'd have to file with ITINs. Not sure if that would be an issue or not. The IRS help line was not helpful as they said "try it and see if they allow it". The IRS won't be punitive if you can explain your reasoning based on their instructions, so why not try (a "no" only costs you time and a postage stamp)?
Best of luck,
John
FYI - We were denied an ITIN and had to wait until my step-daughter had her ss#. Once she had it, we ammended the previous year's return (the year her mom and I married) and claimed her on it (even though, she was never in the USA that year).
DVD
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K2 visa wait time interview?
Wild guess? Does anyone know if a k2 visa would be scheduled quicker for interview or its the same as wait your turn? We sent our k2 paperwork in around the first week of May.
glta
O.K. My memory is pretty fuzzy on this one, but ..... I believe that once the embassy had our k2 packet 3 ... we had the interview date set within 2 weeks. I think the interview date was set about a month to a month and a half out. (I remember being shocked at how fast the k2 portion went for us)
So, I'm thinking the whole process was about 2 months or less.
We did this about a year ago.
Good Luck,
Dvd
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Hi honey !
"I asked a staff when I paid for visa fee he said 20 Kg = 34XX ฿ It takes about 2 months."
2 words-------GARAGE SALE
Now, why would anyone sell a garage? It took awhile, but one day (after obviously seeing a bunch of garage sale signs on the streets) my wife worked up the nerve to ask me why there were so many garages for sale on the weekends? Gotta love it.
My wife is now part of the garage sale subculture! Well, sort of anyway.
dvd
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Have question? My wife came on a k1visa and we married and filed for adjustment green card. She got approved yesterday for her green card. Now here is the question we were at the same time applying for a k2 visa for her 9 year old son. He hasnt gone to the embassy yet for his k2 visa. Will this be a problem because she is now a green card holder?? not have k1 status no more
Thank you
Not a problem. K2 has to be issued within 1 year of receiving the K1. Start at the packet 3 stage. (unless something has changed in the last year) My wife had applied for her green card and had only received the advanced parole document when she went back to Thailand for her daughter's k2 interview. The green card ended up being issued after my wife was in Thailand and about 1 month before her daughter's interview.
Hope this makes sense.
Good Luck
dvd
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I forgot to mention, I signed up with Schwab without going outside of my house, transferred money from my old account electronically to get started and they have some personal welcoming agent who calls you and walks you through their website, explain what they're all about and how it works. That personal attention was nice to have-new to me. He spent a good half hour with me on the phone. I told my Lawyer about them and she said "yup, already heard about em, already have em" so I guess it's not a new secret; just new to me.
IMHO, Yes, Schwab is the way to go. Best ATM service and customer service I've ever experienced.
We are leaving for BKK in less than a month and we can't wait to get back.
Cheers
Have a safe trip, eat lots of spicy!! Can't wait to take our first trip back after settling in here (my guess is it'll be about a year)?
My wife hasn't been back to Thailand in about 15 months and it has been about 2 years for me. It'll be our first trip back as a married couple.
She's mostly excited about the food, family, friends, and THE FOOD. I'm looking forward to the whole thing.
dvd
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I forgot to mention, I signed up with Schwab without going outside of my house, transferred money from my old account electronically to get started and they have some personal welcoming agent who calls you and walks you through their website, explain what they're all about and how it works. That personal attention was nice to have-new to me. He spent a good half hour with me on the phone. I told my Lawyer about them and she said "yup, already heard about em, already have em" so I guess it's not a new secret; just new to me.
IMHO, Yes, Schwab is the way to go. Best ATM service and customer service I've ever experienced.
We are leaving for BKK in less than a month and we can't wait to get back.
Cheers
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Part of me wants to let her do the interview then come for the second interview. Some have been postponed, etc. I can't afford to waste another trip and return without her. The process with this embassy is way too unpredictable. What do you think?
I think at this point save your money, since you just got back. The attorney will handle everything from this point out, and they do a good job. I would also call the attorney this morning, and let them know you got NOA2, and they will jump right on taking her to get the police report, medical, etc. The only thing with you being there is for moral support, at this point.
And part of me wants to just say STFU Noob!
I'm ready to post a "Best of" thread, just so everyone can see what a twisted individual we are dealing with.
Everytime I read one of your critical posts .... I take a look under your handle where it says "fundamentalism is the path to intolerance" ... just to get a kick out of the irony.
dvd
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[quote name='ThaitoUSA' date='Apr 19 2009, 04:28 PM' post='2853954'
With regard to International DL, Maryland requires it along with DL from the foreigner's home country. My fiancée got it about 3 weeks ago at the center near JJ Market. If you get off the Skytrain by the market, there are clearly marked signs in Thai and English for the Driver's Service Center (cannot remember the precise verbage). She gave them about 400 Baht, two passport sized photos, showed her Thai DL, and got it in less than 30 minutes. It's valid for one year.
Does anyone know if you can pay a little more and get the International DL without a Thai DL?
If you are in Texas ... I recommend taking the class , the test is given at the end of the course ... at the school (and they hinted around at actually helping the students along on the test). If you do not take a class and go straight to the DMV to take the test .... and fail ... you no longer have the option to take the test at a school. We found this out after the fact.
My wife went straight to the dmv and scored in the 60's (you get three tries). We then decided to enroll her in the class ... only to find out that she's no longer able to take the test at the school because she's already been to the dmv .... she can take the class ... but, not the test. She's stuck with the dmv
She's going to retake the tests this summer after we return from Thailand.
Oh, also .. a buddy of mine translated the test for his Thai wife and she passed with flying colors (wink wink). They wouldn't allow me or anyone else translate for my wife. I think it depends on the day and the staff who are there at the time. So, you might want to try that approach as well.
We'll be in Thailand in June and July ..... we'd love to meet up with some folks from vj. Anyone going to be there during those months?
Dvd
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Turned out there was a guy standing a few yards away who was shooting the bird and waving it high while waiting on the President to pass and my wife did not want to get involved with the police when they came over to beat the you know what out of that guy. She didn't want police to lump her in with him when they came to get him ... etc.
We saw the motorcade and it wasn't until afterwards that I learned that my wife was scared to death the entire time.
It was an eye opening moment for me .... and my wife.
dvd
Just had to laugh when I read that, because I can picture it so well! As for being scared, that's a shame, and I hope you were able to calm her fears.
Yeah, I think she knows now, regarding speech about the President, that things are different here in the USA. I look back on it now and just laugh. Only one group of 3 people were standing on the side of the road. My wife, myself, and some random guy giving the President the bird. I can only imagine what must have been going through her mind.
She had been here about a year when this happened and it made me realize, AGAIN, how big of a transition this has been for her.
Good luck to all
Dvd
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Well said, Ron.
I wish you would post the same over in the new Thailand Thread, especially about the laws regarding disrespectful speech regarding the King. I guess that's why I get so up in arms when someone says anything bad about the Royal family, because I respect those laws. American's forget that our "freedom of speech" is not upheld worldwide! Even my wife, when I had her read some of the posts was shocked, and worried that "someone" would track the IP address' and go after anyone saying anything negative towards the King!
My wife and I spent the good part of a Saturday morning trying to track down President Bush last summer. We didn't have any luck, though we basically knew where he was. About an hour after we gave up, the police started blocking off the street in front of the gas station that we had stopped at. I told my wife to get out of the car and come watch his motorcade come by. She wouldn't budge. I couldn't believe it .... I explained that she might not ever get another chance to see this ... blah blah ... It was like pulling teeth to get her out of the car and I got really frustrated with her.
Turned out there was a guy standing a few yards away who was shooting the bird and waving it high while waiting on the President to pass and my wife did not want to get involved with the police when they came over to beat the you know what out of that guy. She didn't want police to lump her in with him when they came to get him ... etc.
We saw the motorcade and it wasn't until afterwards that I learned that my wife was scared to death the entire time.
It was an eye opening moment for me .... and my wife.
dvd
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You have a good point, but the loyalty and devotion on VJ is mainly from the perspective of USC, not from the beneficiary. It seems a lot less fraudulent cases by the people that post here all the time before and after they get their Visa, but a lot of them don't come back and say how things are going. Read some of the crazy stories in some of the other forums from guys and woman getting here and then abandoning their USC in some of the other forums. I get bored and browse some of them sometimes. It is interesting and insightful on the entire process, and gives a better understanding of why we are scrutinized so hard. It sucks, but unfortunately a fact of life with all the liars out there. I could go into a story about the girl that was at our medical with us, but I don't know if they are on here, and would rather let people find out truths by themselves.
For my own mental health I don't look for reasons (or other forums) to be skeptical about my SO's intentions. Our journey is difficult as it is and I'm cynical enough for the both of us. If she can pass my test thats pretty good.
The bottom line I had to accept is that she was going to come here on a work permit if we had not met. She's an RN and received her California Nursing Board acceptance letter during my first trip. During one of our more difficult conversations she explained she would not "be" and live with someone she didn't love just to get here faster. On her side she sees giving up her life, friends and family to take a chance on me being who I say I am. So as I see it we are both taking a leap of faith. I have lived in Dallas all of my life. During the last 15 years I have enjoyed a single life and also witnessed the desperate lengths people will go though to get a "catch".
My question to the embassy officer is how different is a bad Thai girl from the ones i meet everyday?
I wish the embassy could do something about the ones we meet everyday. ha. Unfortunately, the embassy onlyl has a choice with the non citizens.
It's too bad that the process seems to have become more strict. However, when we went through it .... it was the most nerve wracking experience ever and we never considered it a breeze. The most anxious time was the interview (when the visa "used" to be approved or denied) and it seems like that approval/denial is simply being pushed back to after the interview for a lot of fiances and after a few more hoops have been jumped through.
If we were going through the process now I would just rationalize that "there's another step" in the process after the interview. I don't see anyone getting denied. The really nervous part (approval/denial) seems to be have been simply pushed back a few days for a lot of applicants. (with another hoop thrown in for fun)
I know this probably doen't make anyone feel any better, but I doubt is anymore nervewracking. Just do what they tell you to do and I'm sure everything will work out for everyone.
Good luck to all
dvd
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rsn I just saw your timeline and felt the pain of being slapped around by the VSC. It was bound to happen sooner or later I just hope I can get to sleep now...
Funny, I didn't have trouble sleeping until after I got my NOA2.
rsn i agree with above post .We just through our interview on the 31st and i believe other than the proof
of relationship you show at interview they have already made a decision months ago..we sent in all proofs of relationship
emails,photos,plane tickets etc with the packages when they asked..in the last package they asked agian ,i got together msn chat
logs going back 15 months average talk 15 hours a month, phone records .pictures etc agian emails where maybe 150 pages
at the most..split half and half (hers and mine)
rsn RELAX TAKE DEEP BREATH we were freaked out by all this talk how hard this guy was on and on,But
ricker told me if everything is in order nothing to worry about and he was right.THis is what going to happen when you get to interview your going to go in and she going to hand package to window.the girl at counter going to take and open in front of her
making sure everything on check list is there,,so go over and over this list make sure you have everything,and have it in the order
the asked,its with the letter they will send you for interview.At the interview anywhere from right away to all day ours took
4 hours before we were called.the interviewer and two thai girls stand there the man starts off asking the basic questions
where you met and how many times i come to see and what do i doing for living ,where i live etc ..than he looks through
emails and text messages while he asks what we talk about when we chat,,(this is why i feel they already made up there mind
the just randomly look through emails,text,,phone records,spending about 15 at the most looking )the thai girls flip through
photo album more like she was using it to cool her self off than to really be looking at the pics.when asked a question about
your relationship have your fiancee go on and on about the answer.Thats what mine did and he finally told her ok enough..(haha)
the whole interview took 45 minutes.
we were denied because of a problem we have with her daughters father and we are trying to fix and take
back as fast as we can.the reason I feel this guy is nice is because of course we where upset with the denial we figured
we would have a problem with this from the start the guy had the thai girls call my fiancee later in the day and say she needs to come back in redo finger prints.When she got there the next day he said he was glad to see her again and that the finger prints
was not the only reason. he wanted to reasure her that he was going to approve the visa if we can get the father issue fixed.
so that was nice he didnt have to say anything really but i feel he's a kind soul doing a rough job,.
rsn i think you have plenty of emails .text,,etc does hurt to throw everything in there you can but dont worry you have enough!!!!!! I think what I would do is you two go over and over your bio stuff make sure she knows everything about you she can
work..job,address,home town,family these are also important and normal stuff a fiancee should know and they also ask!
good luck
chris
Thanks for taking the time to post this. It probably is severe overkill to submit 1000 pages of evidence, so after some thought and considering comments from others such as yourself on VJ, I'm going to come up with a much more reasonable number of pages of evidence (I think). As far as bio stuff, I went over a bunch of questions with my fiancee, and I was surprised with her answers. She knew a bunch of stuff I didn't expect her to remember/know about me. She even remembers my middle name. Aside from my parents, no one remembers or can pronounce my middle name! I hope you and your SO get your approval soon. Best of luck to you two, I'll keep you in my thoughts. Thanks again for your input Chris.
Edit: I didn't respond earlier because for some reason Gmail marked this as spam. Weird.
Come up with an amount of evidence that you feel comfortable with. Take all of the extra pages, documents that you feel might not be necessary, anything else that you feel could be overkill, and place it all in a second folder. Have your fiance submit a main folder at the interview.... and if they end up asking for more .... she just might have what they are asking for in the "extra" folder. Anyway, this is what we did.
Good Luck,
DVD
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I got pulled over in the chiang kham hospital parking lot. i thought i was going to get a ticket for not wearing a helmet and no license but as it turned out the officer told my wife that he wanted to give me his daughters phone number so i could find her a farang boyfriend. we took the number and went on our way. oh and the moped was not registered either.
We were pulled over and the officer asked my wife for her license (She didn't have it with her). She responded to his request by asking him if he wanted to see her ID (in other words her last name). The policeman thought for a moment and then told us that we could move on. She said that he didn't want to take a chance on irritating the wrong family.
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Sitting in a hotel on soi 22. Can't sleep. Second interview tomorrow. Stressing out.
Cool. We (honey+me) spent the month of Sept at Liberty Apartments on Soi 22, near Queens Park.
http://www.cityphotoguide.com/node/404
Lots of good eats + stuff to do nearby. Great Mexican restaurant on Soi 18 as I recall, best guacamole in Thailand.
You're in Thailand eating Mexican food?!
Yeah, it's kind of funny, but it sure is nice to get some Mexican food sometimes. (Especially if you're from Texas). There's a place on Soi 22, kind of across from Larry's Dive, in a little mall area (can't remember the name) that has a Tuesday night Mexican Buffet. I like it for a change of pace sometimes. I don't remember ever seeing any Mexican Food on Soi 18. Anyway ...
My wife and I will be in Thailand in June. June through Mid-July
I'll be wanting some Mexican Food.
Daboyz - What's your status????
Best,
Dvd
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My fiance was diagnosed with bi-polar effective disorder when he was 12 years old, he is now 19. His family have known him to be suffering from it since the age of 6 but it was never diagnosed until 6 years later! Now that he is a lot older, he is no longer on any medication of any kind and we can clearly see he poses no threat to himself or others. Having dealt with the illness for many years he has learned to cope with it and ultimately beat the problem. Obviously we have the worry that when he goes for his medical exam that they will find out about his mental health history and then deem him unfit for the visa, I don't know why they would because he is perfectly fine but it's a nagging worry that we both have! Does anyone have any light to display on this subject? Thanks!
He's 19 and he's beat the Bi-polar problem, on his own, without medication? He's beyond it now that he's alot older at 19 years of age? He is perfectly fine?
Please please, use your time to study up on bi-polar.
Good Luck,
Dvd
What did you mean by that exactly? He knows enough about bi polar to get him through and had 10 years of psychiatric help when he needed it.
I'm sorry that I don't have any specific advice for your situation regarding the visa and your fiance may know enough about himself and bi-polar.
However, my advice was to you. I think you should take some time to study up on bi-polar. Especially, if your only knowledge about it has come from your exeriences with you fiance. That's all. There is a lot to know.
Best,
Dvd
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My fiance was diagnosed with bi-polar effective disorder when he was 12 years old, he is now 19. His family have known him to be suffering from it since the age of 6 but it was never diagnosed until 6 years later! Now that he is a lot older, he is no longer on any medication of any kind and we can clearly see he poses no threat to himself or others. Having dealt with the illness for many years he has learned to cope with it and ultimately beat the problem. Obviously we have the worry that when he goes for his medical exam that they will find out about his mental health history and then deem him unfit for the visa, I don't know why they would because he is perfectly fine but it's a nagging worry that we both have! Does anyone have any light to display on this subject? Thanks!
He's 19 and he's beat the Bi-polar problem, on his own, without medication? He's beyond it now that he's alot older at 19 years of age? He is perfectly fine?
Please please, use your time to study up on bi-polar.
Good Luck,
Dvd
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My wife's visa was DENIED. I owe the IRS money, but I am on a payment plan. not sure what to do now.
I'm very sorry to hear about this and I don't have any advice. Post your situation on the overall k1 forum too. More people there will know what your options are.
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Non-Visa Topic - Food Fight!
in Asia: East and Pacific
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Among the many (and I stress many) non-linear experiences I've had in Thailand was our trip to the Sizzler Steak House. We ordered steaks and they were out of them!
We're looking forward to the Travel Channel show on Monday. Or at least I am.
Cheers,
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