Ya just never know what to expect

[tsap seui]

Okay, I just got back from sending the application back to Chicago.

 

I took Rob's advice and numbered every single dang page...all 626 pages.

 

I left the cover letter and it's index of where EVERY SINGLE ITEM is and in what order. Hopefully, the checks will get cashed and the petition will get sent to California....Gawd, I hate the fact that the California service center is where we'll be processed, but them's the apples they gave us this time.

 

I did write the USCIS folks a short letter apologizing for the lengthy application and briefly explained why that was.....I can't pass up any opportunities to tell them we have been approved twice by the USCIS already.

 

All the pages are marked with the USCIS's coded strip down the right side, the checks have the USCIS's rubber stamp on them, the passport photos have been put into the USCIS's little plastic bags and labeled by them, so it's good to go.....I hope.

 

I'm droppin' my timeline for now...maybe later I'll post one, but it's just useless and childish of me to have one at this point. I'm jest another new guy on the block.

 

tsap seui

[Robert S.]

Your package has been abused so much, maybe you should have LAMINATED each and every page.

[Sam and Fen]

 

Sorry could not resist that.

 

Good luck Tsap I will be thinking of you and your wife.

[tsap seui]

Your package has been abused so much, maybe you should have LAMINATED each and every page.

 

Probably not a bad idear, my redneck friend.

 

Hopefully this time they will cash the checks and send the thang on to California for processing.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

maybe

[Robert S.]

Hey who yew callin a raidnaik anyhow, why ah otter pick up one of these here pieces of angle arn layin in mah dirt yard an thow it at ye!!!

[tsap seui]

 

Sorry could not resist that.

 

Good luck Tsap I will be thinking of you and your wife.

 

 

That was me and my posse chasin' the consulate general to go get my wife and son their visas.

 

We'll be okay Sam, I do appreciate your thoughts.

 

tsap seui

[chilton747]

 

 

Hopefully this time they will cash the checks and send the thang on to California for processing.....

 

 

 

I wuud thank that they will cash those checks asap now.......seeing as they spent their hard earned money sendin that thang back to ya.

[Rob and WeiLing]

I'm jest another new guy on the block.

 

tsap seui

 

Y'know, I almost fell for that. "Who is tsap seui?" I was thinking. Then I noticed that this "new guy" has almost 5000 posts. You aren't getting away that easy...

 

Anyway, keep us updated. You've got enough material for a full book, and I think I know some who might buy it... You just gotta find out how it ends first, hm?

[tsap seui]

Y'know, I almost fell for that. "Who is tsap seui?" I was thinking. Then I noticed that this "new guy" has almost 5000 posts. You aren't getting away that easy...

 

Anyway, keep us updated. You've got enough material for a full book, and I think I know some who might buy it... You just gotta find out how it ends first, hm?

 

 

All those posts and I'm STILL only at the starting gate....what a life, what a system, eh?

 

I sent the whole thing, a little over 600 numbered pages, back to Chicago on the 15th and got the green slip notice that the mailroom took possesion of my "manuscript" on Saturday the 18th. Every page has been scanned (I guess that is what they did) and has the USCIS eighth of an inch code running top to bottom....maybe, just maybe it won't get sent back for something they already have, that was supplied following their own rules...it's funny, even the continuation sheet giving them the address was scanned and coded...maybe robots process these things.

 

 

If I don't come home around the end of the month and find the application sitting on my doorstep again, I'll hope the app has made it's way on to the service center in California. Who knows, I may get a P-1 one of these here dayz....WOOOOOWHO!!!!!!!!

 

Rob, one of these dayz I will stop doing the construction work I so love, sit down at my computer, and wear out the word processor as I write this crazy book. The Vietnam tour section of it got started in the 1990's as a form of therapy I came up with in an attempt to try and stop having nightmares with the resulting jumping out of bed trying to put the flames on my body out, or trying no run away from the screams of the wounding and the feeling that I was falling out of the sky in a chopper that the engine had been shot out of.

 

I have over 100 pages of day to day experiences of flying choppers at the age of 20 and 21 and losing my youth in the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia and the Iron and then in the Michelin rubber tree plantations and rice paddies of the military designated Iron Triangle in south Vietnam....I can just add in the more exciting parts of riding a Harley "chopper" in America as I sought to regain my youth, then much later found myself dancing the funky chicken in China with a lil' rabbit while I sang karioke and had her family in stitches with my antics

 

Lil' rabbit often laughs and tells me "You same-ah child"...looks like I found myself, when I found dat dare brer Rabbit. What a long strange trip it was finding her, and then trying to live with her in America, Land of the Free, Fought For by the Brave (or in my case, the just plumb crazy).

 

Yes, technically, I is jes a new guy on this here block of Candle wax.

 

tsap seui

 

Have laughter

will travel

[tsap seui]

This really stinks. A couple of questions, tsap:

 

*** Is it possible you are being confused with another person, who is vile and evil? There's a guy in the database that cops and border agents often mistake for me; it has caused some interesting moments.

 

*** Is it possible the above is true for the 'lil rabbit?

 

*** Did you really piss off some no good, worthless sack 'o crap long ago and far away who might now work at USCIS? (Think time in military service)

 

*** Have you ever made an effort to find someone in USCIS that was actually willing to help you rather than just do their job? We have a woman in Helena who has made it her mission to take good care of people going through the process; if you could find someone like her in your neck of the woods, you might be able to get to the bottom of this mess.

 

 

I've had some bad things happen to me because of bureaucrats and I've had my ass saved by bureaucrats who interceded to make my paperwork disappear or cover a huge mistake. I hope you find one of the good guys because going outside of the chain of command can often backfire.

 

 

 

Griz, I've been meaning to answer you a long time now. I'll answer a few others at the same time.

 

I can think of no one I have pissed off, either in private life, and especially in the military. There I went through boot camp, OCS/flight school, served my year in Nam and got out. Plus, other than a few good friends I currently see, no one knows of my plans.

 

I don't know anyone in the USCIS, or even how to make a connection.

 

Folks, I don't think there is anyone with a connection to my wife that could, or would give my wife grief. Outside her family there is only 2 of her friends that even know she has met me, much less that we are making a new application. She did use an agency to meet me, and yes, there is a very slim possiblity that they could have had a hand in the original denial....remember....a denial that was quickly and without even telling me what was wrong, over turned and reaffirmed by the USCIS.

 

I honestly don't think the USCIS sending my application back in early July was an effort to give me problems. My take is someone at the lockbox in ChIcago was just an idiot and didn't know the rules for I-130 forms and continuation sheets...as simple as that. In my book, it could, and does happen to anyone, at any time. Candle is a very small family in the overall scheme of things.

 

My problem with POE in Newark earlier this year.....again, I feel I got red flagged for my travels to China....it could happen to any of us.

 

I have no criminal past other than DUI's back in 1980 thru 1985. No run-ins with law enforcement. If the government had me on a watch list....why did the USCIS quickly reaffirm our K-1? My door could be easily kicked in, if they wanted me for something they could easily snatch me out of bed in the middle of the night.

 

I am a simple person, as is my wife....I do not think anyone has us in their sights. We have had the misfortune of having to live out what often can, and DOES happen, both in Guangzhou at an interview, and in private life for me, where I was traveling to China and like folks that get pulled aside for extra bag checks, I got flagged for a routine Customs check, and wound up with some young punk douche bag in a uniform.

 

I highly respect all of you guys comments, and very much appreciate your concern and well wishes for our case.

 

I do not look at my wife and I as a couple under seige. I AM NOT looking for sympathy as I don't feel put upon....we both have only had the bad luck to have to live down to what the consulate gives out daily to many many folks. Again, Candle is a tiny speck of what happens in GUZ on any given day. It's a crap shoot there and my analogy of it being a lucky duck pond like you find at community carnavals is the way I, and many others see it.

 

I have survived much worse from the American government in it's blind justice, I can still laugh at the total incompetence of what and who runs our systems....it's a total wonder we survived as a nation. I guess it was just plain luck. I do feel sorry for what my wife has had to endure from the lunacy in Guangzhou....but that's life baby!!!

 

To me, the test here on if anything untoward is REALLY going on is going to rest on the timeliness of our P-2. I am fully prepared to send in the dogs if that takes over 4 months from July 15th. I have learned my lessons, studied what others have done, and am ready, willing, and very able to raise a stink to get that danged P-2.

 

I am hopeful that this time we will get the visas. I'll make no threats here, but I know what needs to be done, and I will do it. For my wife, I will exhaust every effort to help her get a visa.

 

Yes, I may wind up living in China with Uncle Scammy's untaxed 30,000 rmb (converted) monthly income supporting myself and my family for the rest of our lives. My wife is a very sharp business woman and she, if denied, will quickly call the businessman who has become a friend and has sought her out for 2 years now to work within his business, starting out at over 100,000rmb yearly. We can live in our beautiful paid off home pretty decently, and at a pinch above the poverty level in China if need be.

 

I have only gotten back into bed with the American government out of my devoted love for my wife, and for her long held dream to see and live in America, be it temporarily or for the rest of her life. I would never have done something like this, especially a second time if I didn't love this woman to the core of my soul. I love America, the America I once knew, but I have lived and traveled into many other places and know this ain't the only place a redneck can hang his hat.

 

At any rate, the countdown is on, well before this time next year I'll know which country my ol' floppy Aussie hat will be hung in, and I will wake up each morning, happily in the arms of my family.

 

Thanks guys.

 

tsap seui

[tsap seui]

Just got back from building a fancy new master bathroom out in Ohio....while I wuz out yonder I called my bank and found out the USCIS had cashed my CR-1 and CR-2 checks on August 4th (16 days after they officially received my 600+ pages of application evidence).

 

Looks like I ain't gonna have to worry about comin' home from rehabin' houses and findin' my application sittin' on my doorstep anymore. Also looks like lil' rabbit and ol' Tarbaby here are back in bed with Uncle Remus and his band of heathens once again...hopefully he ain't lookin' to fuc....er...ah....have un-con-sin-ual sex with us'in this time around.

 

Oh, the lil' things that make us happy....they actually cashed my checks. WOOOOOWHO, no more "application tag" with the USCIS sendin' my application back to me because I followed their own I-130 application rules and they didn't understand their own rules.

 

On a side note, I guess I should cut them folks some slack, those 5 pages of instructions on how to fill out an I-130 form ARE sorta involved.

 

tsap seui

Edited August 12, 2010 by tsap seui (see edit history)

[Amaro]

Nice, a little sigh of relief that the application is moving on

[tsap seui]

Nice, a little sigh of relief that the application is moving on

 

Heck Marine, it's a dadgum sigh of relief that the jokers are even gonna START workin' on it. WHOOOORAH

 

tsap seui

[Urkidding]

Word on the street is...(drum roll please....)

 

They have recieved your 600 page numbered application...

 

By chance, did you staple it or bind it?

 

Oh - Oh!

 

 

http://i40.tinypic.com/2q0ps2a.jpg

[tsap seui]

Word on the street is...(drum roll please....)

 

They have recieved your 600 page numbered application...

 

By chance, did you staple it or bind it?

 

Oh - Oh!

 

 

http://i40.tinypic.com/2q0ps2a.jpg

 

PERFECT photo cuzin' Andrew.

 

Well, I was gone for a week to work in Ohio and I stopped my mail in case the USCIS sent the application back to me again. This morning I go to get my mail, and I had two letters from the USCIS.....no application sent back to me, but two I-797C (notice of Action) letters informing me that lil' rabbit and Bubba, J.R.'s cases are in processing.

 

P-1 BABY

 

They received the cases on July 18th, sent me the P-1 notice on August 2nd, and cashed the checks on August 4th.

 

Our cases will be worked on in the California Service Center....I can only hope they are as nice to us as Vermont was on the K-1 approval, and later on the reafirmation.

 

Again, hilarious photo cuzin'!!! That application is big, but it's loaded up for the DOS's viewin' pleasure.

 

tsap seui

 

Once again....In the waitin' line