Wednesday, 8 June, 2005

on its way, i am told...

i was really upset last week re my visa applications... and the whole circumstance was also made more annoying partly because i was originally told it would take about a week to get through... today i learnt that it could actually take about 6 weeks and it more or less did... in any case... i've been made feeling rather low by all these unnecessary bureaucratic-related and relocation worries...

anyways... it think i am feeling a lot better today...

a package with important papers is on its way to me... by express i am told... (it'll still take 3 days!) i hope it will arrive soon... i must have sounded like a frantic-worried-freak (and squeaking with my silly voice) when i spoke to the secretary at the research center... in truth, it is all very nerve-wrecking... i can't really do anything properly without knowing and it has all been up in the AIR (still is)... just wrote to the consulate to request for an earlier interview date... but i doubt they will grant it... still, i thought i'd try rather than regret not trying. i've never imagined that visa applications could take so long... sigh...

isn't there an official identity that is something like a "citizen of the world" -- who lives and travels sans frontieres? i'd like to be one...

posted by ~overacuppa~ on Wednesday, 8 June, 2005 at 21:55 hrs
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The red tape is ridiculous. Problem is that there are so many forms to fill, so many barriers and obstacles that they probably hope people just give up halfway. If you watch the movie "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (which isn't a great adaptation of the book), there's a scene on the Volgon planet, a planet where one must fill very many forms to get anything done. When I saw it, I immediately thought - US immigration. At least Volgon processing time of the forms seems a lot faster! Good luck, Tigs. Have my fingers crossed for you.

Posted by: monoceros on Thursday, 9 June, 2005 at 15:32 hrs

thank you monocerous... i hope it will go smoothly from now.

i got the papers today but the interview date is still much later than helpful... just hoping i can be there at the same time as my supervisor visits so all of us involved in the project can discuss it together... sigh.

fighting against it is not helping... have to go with the flow... and try to get more momentum going somehow... argh looks like i will probably have only a week and possibly less to finish my packing before i leave... if i am granted the visa, that is.

Posted by: overacuppa on Thursday, 9 June, 2005 at 20:05 hrs

I'm sure you'll get the visa. It's the process that's such a hassle. Hang in there. It will all come together soon. =)

Posted by: monoceros on Saturday, 11 June, 2005 at 13:28 hrs

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