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Repugnant Abomination · 08-10-2009, 05:29 PM

So, awesome story, it's now been 11 business days since the TECO office in San Francisco mailed back our approved visa's, as well as passports, but we still haven't received them. Obviously we can't leave the fucking country without our passports. We're suppose to leave on Thursday - we have non refundable plane tickets - and nobody can tell us anything. At this point we might have to use rushmypassport.com to expedite new ones to use (for a cool 500 bucks), but then that becomes a problem because you can't get the type of visa we need if your passport has been issues within the last 6 months. On top of all this we stand to lose our jobs in Taiwan and be back to square 1 in terms of finding a new one. We've already moved all of our shit into storage, put in our 30 days notice, and quit our jobs in the US.

So yeah, FML.

Orgazmo · 08-10-2009, 06:02 PM

I mean...can we see this for what it clearly is, Repug? A god damned sign?

Your passports will get there a day late. This will leave you with 0 ties in Oregon (and Taiwan, for that matter) and a chance to hobo your way across the United States.

Embrace it. You'll be a better man on the other side.

Repugnant Abomination · 08-10-2009, 06:17 PM

I do not receive that. I'm only accepting sympathy.

Mr. Blonde · 08-10-2009, 06:22 PM

Hell of a time to be heading to Taiwan-missing the typhoon by a few days

f3lix · 08-10-2009, 09:46 PM

Why did you guys wait so god damned long to get a VISA and why don't you already have a passport?

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 08-10-2009, 09:58 PM

repugs moving to indiana!

BigDongedHoe · 08-10-2009, 10:16 PM

This state already has one to many faggots

Pliedes · 08-10-2009, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f3lix

Why did you guys wait so god damned long to get a VISA and why don't you already have a passport?

This. Why do americans love to procrastinate so much?

Repugnant Abomination · 08-11-2009, 12:38 AM

We didn't, goddammit. You have to send in your passport with your visa application in order to get the visa (along with a bunch of other shit like bank statement and flight itinerary). We mailed our visa application in on the 24th of July and they received it the 27. With priority mail they say 2-3 business days, so we gave ourselves plenty of time.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 08-11-2009, 01:19 AM

You can sue them and probably win.

Mr. Blonde · 08-11-2009, 04:02 AM

Or just wait for the passport and fly out later. Thats what I did; I don't know how Taiwan does it, but basically I had to buy my plane ticket but was advised not to do so until I got my visa placed in my passport. that got delayed by a week, so did my trip. Once I got it, I booked the flight, flew out here, and it was reimbursed within 2 weeks.

Did your school book the flight for you or what?

Orgazmo · 08-11-2009, 08:08 AM

Oh jesus. Is that the voice of reason that just chimed in?

Repug, know this: I strongly advise against you dealing with this logically. I encourage an emotional meltdown. In fact, I'll settle for nothing less.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 08-11-2009, 09:43 AM

A real artist and potential novelist would have already carried out a poetic suicide by now.

f3lix · 08-11-2009, 11:02 AM

What kind of bullshit company requires your actual passport to be mailed? Fax/scan/mail the document page. Idiots.

Visas are cake to get online, too.

Why was this so difficult?

Mr. Blonde · 08-11-2009, 11:06 AM

Yeah, actually I never had to send in my passport. Had to send in my Visa #, but not my passport...I did, however, have to physically mail my college diploma here.

Orgazmo · 08-11-2009, 11:36 AM

Repug, according to some friends of mine and f3lix, it sounds like you may have been involved in some sort of identity theft scam.

Is it possible that you were duped?

DJ FC · 08-11-2009, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f3lix

What kind of bullshit company requires your actual passport to be mailed? Fax/scan/mail the document page. Idiots.

Visas are cake to get online, too.

Why was this so difficult?

Ummmmm? You don't know what you're talking about.

Many (if not most) work visas require a physical stamp/visa page to be glued onto a page in your passport. And as for visas being cake to get online. Are you talking about Taiwan specifically? Because for just about any country I've ever heard of, getting a work visa is HELL.

Repugnant Abomination · 08-11-2009, 02:45 PM

Blonde - We could delay our trip, only the school semester begins August 24th and training August 17th. If we can't meet those deadlines the job will go to someone else.

F3lix - The TECO office was quite clear they required our physical passports, not photocopies, in order to complete the paperwork for our visas.

Gaz - Quiet, you.

GWB - Yes.

It looks like we're going to drive down to San Fran Wednesday morning at 3 a.m. so we can be at the passport agency there by 9 a.m. We will get new passports reissued, then march ourselves down to the visa agency and demand new visas. Hopefully all goes according to plan and we can still keep our original flight, but worst case scenario we delay it a day or two, which wouldn't be the end of the world, just cost us more money.

Lastly, you're goddamn right I'm a novelist. When I give my Pulitzer acceptance speech I'll have some scathing things to say about the support of my internet friends.

Landing Strip · 08-11-2009, 03:41 PM

Two friends of mine had bought tickets to go to Brazil this spring to participate in Carnaval. They didn't know you needed a Visa before getting to the airport (I guess you can get visas at some airports?), and they had to drive from Las Vegas to Las Angeles to the Brazilian Consulate to get a visa. Despite them being first in line at two in the morning, they were told that it would be at least 10 days before anything would go through (probably because so many people were trying to get to Brazil for Carnaval). Unfortunately they planned their flight too close to the date of Carnaval and were not able to go.

I hope you get your passports and visas in time.

Repugnant Abomination · 08-11-2009, 03:49 PM

Thanks. We've called the passport agency three times and they say people who are leaving soonest get priority, and that a lot of times you can get new passports issued on the spot (though it's a lengthy process). I'm more worried about the visa people, since we've had some problems with them already.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 08-11-2009, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination

Lastly, you're goddamn right I'm a novelist. When I give my Pulitzer acceptance speech I'll have some scathing things to say about the support of my internet friends.

Dude, I wasn't trying to say you weren't a novelist. I was just trying to get you to kill yourself.

f3lix · 08-11-2009, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by George W. Bush

Ummmmm? You don't know what you're talking about.

My assistantship at UNLV was to deal with all the international documents for two international trips for 30 students, which involved work visas and the students had citizenships from 4 different countries.

I think you can stfu now.

DDTempest · 08-11-2009, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination

I'm more worried about the visa people, since we've had some problems with them already.

How can you not have a Visa? I get new Visa offers every couple of days in the mail ... your credit must suck.

DJ FC · 08-12-2009, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f3lix

My assistantship at UNLV was to deal with all the international documents for two international trips for 30 students, which involved work visas and the students had citizenships from 4 different countries.

I think you can stfu now.

F3lix did some visas so obviously all visas must work the same.

Beebs · 08-12-2009, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f3lix

My assistantship at UNLV was to deal with all the international documents for two international trips for 30 students, which involved work visas and the students had citizenships from 4 different countries.

I think you can stfu now.

Student visa is not nearly the same as working visa man.

08-10-2009, 05:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 164547	Fuck! So, awesome story, it's now been 11 business days since the TECO office in San Francisco mailed back our approved visa's, as well as passports, but we still haven't received them. Obviously we can't leave the fucking country without our passports. We're suppose to leave on Thursday - we have non refundable plane tickets - and nobody can tell us anything. At this point we might have to use rushmypassport.com to expedite new ones to use (for a cool 500 bucks), but then that becomes a problem because you can't get the type of visa we need if your passport has been issues within the last 6 months. On top of all this we stand to lose our jobs in Taiwan and be back to square 1 in terms of finding a new one. We've already moved all of our shit into storage, put in our 30 days notice, and quit our jobs in the US. So yeah, FML.

08-10-2009, 09:58 PM	#6 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,352 Internets: 290966	repugs moving to indiana!
	#YOLO

08-10-2009, 10:16 PM	#7 (permalink)
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08-11-2009, 01:19 AM	#10 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,352 Internets: 290966	You can sue them and probably win.
	#YOLO

08-11-2009, 09:43 AM	#13 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,352 Internets: 290966	A real artist and potential novelist would have already carried out a poetic suicide by now.
	#YOLO

08-10-2009, 06:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
Orgazmo COME ON YOU YANKS Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 15,732 Internets: 311447	I mean...can we see this for what it clearly is, Repug? A god damned sign? Your passports will get there a day late. This will leave you with 0 ties in Oregon (and Taiwan, for that matter) and a chance to hobo your way across the United States. Embrace it. You'll be a better man on the other side.

08-10-2009, 06:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 164547	I do not receive that. I'm only accepting sympathy.

08-10-2009, 06:22 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	Hell of a time to be heading to Taiwan-missing the typhoon by a few days

08-10-2009, 09:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
f3lix Gangnam Style Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DH's Massage Parlor Posts: 6,383 Internets: 213510	Why did you guys wait so god damned long to get a VISA and why don't you already have a passport?

08-11-2009, 12:38 AM	#9 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 164547	We didn't, goddammit. You have to send in your passport with your visa application in order to get the visa (along with a bunch of other shit like bank statement and flight itinerary). We mailed our visa application in on the 24th of July and they received it the 27. With priority mail they say 2-3 business days, so we gave ourselves plenty of time.

08-11-2009, 04:02 AM	#11 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	Or just wait for the passport and fly out later. Thats what I did; I don't know how Taiwan does it, but basically I had to buy my plane ticket but was advised not to do so until I got my visa placed in my passport. that got delayed by a week, so did my trip. Once I got it, I booked the flight, flew out here, and it was reimbursed within 2 weeks. Did your school book the flight for you or what?

08-11-2009, 08:08 AM	#12 (permalink)
Orgazmo COME ON YOU YANKS Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 15,732 Internets: 311447	Oh jesus. Is that the voice of reason that just chimed in? Repug, know this: I strongly advise against you dealing with this logically. I encourage an emotional meltdown. In fact, I'll settle for nothing less.

08-11-2009, 11:02 AM	#14 (permalink)
f3lix Gangnam Style Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DH's Massage Parlor Posts: 6,383 Internets: 213510	What kind of bullshit company requires your actual passport to be mailed? Fax/scan/mail the document page. Idiots. Visas are cake to get online, too. Why was this so difficult?

08-11-2009, 11:06 AM	#15 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	Yeah, actually I never had to send in my passport. Had to send in my Visa #, but not my passport...I did, however, have to physically mail my college diploma here.

08-11-2009, 11:36 AM	#16 (permalink)
Orgazmo COME ON YOU YANKS Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 15,732 Internets: 311447	Repug, according to some friends of mine and f3lix, it sounds like you may have been involved in some sort of identity theft scam. Is it possible that you were duped?

08-11-2009, 02:45 PM	#18 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 164547	Blonde - We could delay our trip, only the school semester begins August 24th and training August 17th. If we can't meet those deadlines the job will go to someone else. F3lix - The TECO office was quite clear they required our physical passports, not photocopies, in order to complete the paperwork for our visas. Gaz - Quiet, you. GWB - Yes. It looks like we're going to drive down to San Fran Wednesday morning at 3 a.m. so we can be at the passport agency there by 9 a.m. We will get new passports reissued, then march ourselves down to the visa agency and demand new visas. Hopefully all goes according to plan and we can still keep our original flight, but worst case scenario we delay it a day or two, which wouldn't be the end of the world, just cost us more money. Lastly, you're goddamn right I'm a novelist. When I give my Pulitzer acceptance speech I'll have some scathing things to say about the support of my internet friends.

08-11-2009, 03:41 PM	#19 (permalink)
Landing Strip Resident Pube Inspector Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 96 Internets: 299	Two friends of mine had bought tickets to go to Brazil this spring to participate in Carnaval. They didn't know you needed a Visa before getting to the airport (I guess you can get visas at some airports?), and they had to drive from Las Vegas to Las Angeles to the Brazilian Consulate to get a visa. Despite them being first in line at two in the morning, they were told that it would be at least 10 days before anything would go through (probably because so many people were trying to get to Brazil for Carnaval). Unfortunately they planned their flight too close to the date of Carnaval and were not able to go. I hope you get your passports and visas in time.

08-11-2009, 03:49 PM	#20 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 164547	Thanks. We've called the passport agency three times and they say people who are leaving soonest get priority, and that a lot of times you can get new passports issued on the spot (though it's a lengthy process). I'm more worried about the visa people, since we've had some problems with them already.

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