reading over the various clauses on the information sheets included in the visa application...
it's ironic... they make you pay for them to keep track of you... it's called the SEVIS fee... it costs US$100!
there're two other forms you have to fill in for a J-1 visa... DS-156 and DS-158... if you are male or are born in or hold a passport from certain countries you have to fill in another form...
i have to go have a beautiful photograph taken so that they might be distracted... and be nice to me... (harhar... like they will)
you pay them ?60 to read over the forms and interview you (and you might have to pay another ?60 depending on whether your country of residence has good ties with the US) and then ?9.50 for them to get your passport back to you on recorded delivery via Royal Mail...
that's a total of roughly US$240 (possibly more) -- they sure are making good money.
i hope they will accept my rather interesting looking passport... hmm.
how nerve-wrecking...
anyways, i should let anna and amy know i will be visiting... london... hmmm there are a few places i've read about that i'd like to have a peek... and covent garden is one of my all-time-favourite places... i wonder if the quartet is still there playing Bach and Pachelbel's canon...
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Friday, 10 June, 2005 at 12:43 hrsYes, always need to pay so much money just to enter on a visa! Terrible. And make sure you take the photo with the correct size/dimensions. They're very fussy about that.
I hope you find the quartet! =)
Posted by: monoceros on Saturday, 11 June, 2005 at 13:27 hrsyup i will bring the sheet of instructions re photo when i head to the studio...
hope the weather will be superb... for all the hassles and frustrations... the one good thing is that i'll be able to see my first-year uni flatmates... and possibly visit Roald Dahl's museum! =c) and treat myself to dimsum! so perhaps there're three things!!! heee
i hope to find the quartet too! =C)
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