Finally am able to redo this, at last. Good that was able to extract old files before I messed up or deleted them in my database. This is going to be my personal blog.
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Netherlands Visa Requirements
So I guess my amended married name in my passport didn’t suffice, they have to have our married license to see my married name. It was just not in their list of requirements. Darn! This Netherlands Visa application is hassling us. I wish I could point it word by word in my papers that hubby’s company is responsible for me financially. Can’t they understand? Hubby’s company is flying all the rig managers and higher positions and their wives all for free! But it is okay, though we have been exchanging communications back and forth to make them understand; at least, it is already being processed.
My Travel Document
This time it is totally useless, as well as the $305 we paid for the Advance parole which would have let me enter into the USA if I leave without my Green Card yet. It was just that we don’t have any news about my green card for so many months that applying for travel document I-131 was comforting, knowing we have something to wait upon. But since my green card came, before being given travel document, it is now part of the experience dealing with my papers here as wife of a US Citizen.
Today I got a response from USCIS that they have received my application a month ago and still take them some 60-90 days to process it. I’m just thankful my green card came, mid-October we would have to use it, and for sure travel document would not be up yet, by estimating their time frame, before they can make a decision, it will be too late. 🙂
Way in New Orleans
Which way in New Orleans? Most of the New Orleans land is below the sea level so you can see a lot of bodies of water there and they get flooded easily. They kept saying us that everything in New Orleans is unique even their way of calling directions. They described directions with respect to the waters, which weave around the city: lakeside means toward Lake Pontchartrain; riverside means toward the Mississippi River; upriver refers to Uptown; and downriver refers to Downtown.
Netherlands Visa on-process
Finally, Miami office of the Netherlands Consulate said my papers were okay. We had had several email exchanges with the New Orleans sub-office because of the health insurance thing. Hubby’s company is international with employees from all over the world, so I am also covered when I travel outside of the USA. Somehow they had hard time understanding out-of network plans of the company that the benefits department was involved already in making the New Orleans office understand. Miami said its OK, so now we are ready to receive my passport back which we Fedex’d early this week, with Netherlands visa already. Hubby was taking care of it, making sure everything would be dealt and settled with so we can have my visa to the mid-October trip. So excited!
Going back to the Philippines
This time we are purchasing my domestic e-tickets back and forth online from Cebu Pacific. Hubby used to buy it online from them but this time they wont allow visa card transactions from the USA. No other payment options. So hubby tried to call long trans-pacific but he could not reach them. Maybe some temporary problems they’re having; but if the USA is not served, how much more the other countries? We are not yet worried of it this time. We are just glad that I can used the free tickets we have for me that will be one year old this month. No postponement already. But now I’m kind of “can’t believe I’m finally going back”. But I know it’s normal.
Welcome Letters
le 10 septembre 2007
I get the mail and oh my, what’s the business with United States Immigration and Citizenship Services? I got seven, 7, mails from them! When we opened the envelops, all the same content. So they welcome me to the USA 7 times, all in the same postmarked day, same letter and dates. And the letters were few days late since I got my green card already. Oh well.
But one thing, in one of the letters it says there that since the date they received my request, when I called them few times, they have approved my case September 1st. There was the catch. If I had not called them about my case, maybe we are still waiting for my green card till now. So I guess, every applicant must call them and follow up the earlier the better, it won’t hurt. Though we had not done it that early, still thankful. I just sent some sms to my sisters about it. Good news for us.