HIDEOUS RANT -- you are forewarned!
kindly excuse the sometimes pent-up angst that is unwittingly spewed here...
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at 2030hrs GMT today i FINALLY received news that the visa application papers from the US is completed and it should be sent to me on monday and i should get it after 3 days... they asked me to confirm my address... and to my horror! they've recorded my address WRONG! ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! *bangs her head on the walls*
... before i left the US institute, i filled in some of my personal details so that the application could be prepared in advance... little did i know until now that my more european-looking 7 with a dash across was interpreted as a 4 and my capital H was likewise deemed as a 4.
i honestly don't think my handwriting is that bad... if i can get my driver's license updated, and if my subscriptions to various things came through the various organisational admins must have been able to comprehend what i wrote in capitals. afterall, the postal services get my letters to the addressees!
HORRORS!!! does this mean we have to start from the beginning again?!?!? i've wasted 3 weeks!!! who ever is in-charged of this is really driving me insane...
i just don't get it: why if they are uncertain now, did they not double check with me before sending in those papers ?!? why didn't they even let me check the details before submitting them? why are they so presumptious?!
i had to call the US 2x to make sure that it was being looked into (often without a quick response until i call again to bug them), and the person in charged of dealing with the administrative personnel seems to think that the error in the address will be alright... i am so not convinced... who is she kidding?!?
HELLO!?! this is immigration bureaucracy here we are talking about... i have to surrender my passport to the US embassy in London and the last thing i need is to lose my personal passport because the address is wrong! moreover i'll have to fill in another different bit of the application too and the details must match!!!
i honestly don't get it... i have such wonderful luck with meeting and having to rely on people who just are so good at not getting things right... why?!? gits!
it sure feels like the whole world is making fun of me. stop it i say. stop this contemptible act! mir reicht's!
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Friday, 3 June, 2005 at 22:54 hrsThe whole immigration and customs thing in the US smacks of inefficieny and narrow-mindedness. I had to take a short trip out of the US and when I returned, I had to forgo my student status and enter as a tourist. I've still got my apartment, I'm clearing and shipping stuff, got events to attend during my last 8 weeks here, but they couldn't comprehend this at the airport. My answers didn't fit their limited list and even though I gave them the situation clear and simple, they were still so suspicious and nearly wouldn't let me in because I plan to stay for 2 months.
I hope they get their act together for your sake. The gates to the US are becoming smaller and the gatekeepers becoming more unfriendly. I wanted to tell the officer, with treatment like this, I don't feel like returning, and I'm sure they'd be pleased about admitting fewer people.
Posted by: monoceros on Monday, 6 June, 2005 at 12:14 hrsi don't get it though, if your visa allows you to stay till a certain date, you were denied entry as a student?! does this mean that i can't leave the US at all, while i am supposed to be there? this is getting a little beyond absurdity...
Yeah, the visa allows me to stay till a certain date but because I graduated, the university wouldn't sign my I-20, this particular form (a little like a visa) which confirms my student status. I won't be enrolled in fall term so technically, I'm not a student anymore. If I remained in the US, all would be fine. But because I left after graduation, I can't come back again as a student. You can leave the US as long as you don't go through a "terminal" event like graduation.
Posted by: monoceros on Monday, 6 June, 2005 at 23:58 hrsi see... but i still don't get why if your visa hasn't run out that you could still be rejected entry. oh well... i wish there would be no boundaries of such that we, man, have created... i wish the whole world isn't so screwed up... and i wish i didn't have to wish about these things...
Posted by: overacuppa on Tuesday, 7 June, 2005 at 16:12 hrsOh, they're afraid that since I have no real reason (school) to remain in the US, I'm sneaking back in to try and get an illegal job or something that will make me a drain on their resources. So much for the old adage on the Statue of Liberty - Give you your poor, give me your tired. I never see open, welcoming arms anymore.
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