Filling out official forms is generally a serious business, but there are just a couple questions on this Form I-129F that made me pause and think, "Wait, really?"
Part 2, 15.a.: He or she [the alien fiancé] last arrived as a: (visitor, student, exchange alien, crewman, stowaway, temporary worker, without inspection, etc.)
Er...would we tell you if he or she were a stowaway? Also, "without inspection" sounds like some kind of euphemism for illegal entry.
Part 2, 33.: Is your fiancé(e) related to you?
Yikes, I certainly hope not!
The rest is just your humdrum information about addresses, birth, family, etc.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
A Slight Delay
By Victoria
Colin was scheduled to fly back to Northern Ireland tonight, but delays in the first leg of his flight made us decide that he would stay here in Virginia until tomorrow. His flights were supposed to be from DC to Newark, NJ and then from NJ to Belfast, Northern Ireland; the flight to Newark became delayed by about 2 hours, which meant Colin was going to miss his connecting flight to Belfast.
Rather than have him stranded overnight in Newark waiting for the next day's flight to Belfast, we decided he should stay here and just fly out of DC tomorrow (Thursday). The very helpful man at the United counter got Colin a flight set that would give him a 3-4 hour layover in Newark, just in case this happens again, which he seemed to think was likely. He told us that apparently the Newark airport currently only has one ramp for United flights, which frequently causes delays. (PS: Newark is horrible.)
Another slight delay is in regard to the paperwork: one of the forms we have to fill out for this initial petition application is a biographical form (one for each of us). The required information includes things like job history and housing history for the past 5 years, but Colin doesn't have access over here to his files and records to make sure he gets that information right. He's going to bring the form back to NI with him and fill it out, then send it back to me -- since I have to be the one to submit the full petition materials. Based on the time it takes mail to ship between UK and US, it'll probably only delay our petition submission by 1-2 weeks.
Otherwise, it's been a wonderful 3 weeks together. Here's a photo from our visit to the cherry blossoms in DC!
Colin was scheduled to fly back to Northern Ireland tonight, but delays in the first leg of his flight made us decide that he would stay here in Virginia until tomorrow. His flights were supposed to be from DC to Newark, NJ and then from NJ to Belfast, Northern Ireland; the flight to Newark became delayed by about 2 hours, which meant Colin was going to miss his connecting flight to Belfast.
Rather than have him stranded overnight in Newark waiting for the next day's flight to Belfast, we decided he should stay here and just fly out of DC tomorrow (Thursday). The very helpful man at the United counter got Colin a flight set that would give him a 3-4 hour layover in Newark, just in case this happens again, which he seemed to think was likely. He told us that apparently the Newark airport currently only has one ramp for United flights, which frequently causes delays. (PS: Newark is horrible.)
Another slight delay is in regard to the paperwork: one of the forms we have to fill out for this initial petition application is a biographical form (one for each of us). The required information includes things like job history and housing history for the past 5 years, but Colin doesn't have access over here to his files and records to make sure he gets that information right. He's going to bring the form back to NI with him and fill it out, then send it back to me -- since I have to be the one to submit the full petition materials. Based on the time it takes mail to ship between UK and US, it'll probably only delay our petition submission by 1-2 weeks.
Otherwise, it's been a wonderful 3 weeks together. Here's a photo from our visit to the cherry blossoms in DC!
Saturday, April 5, 2014
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