So here is the down-low on the wedding and Toi’s immigration.
We have passed through 3 of the 4 steps for the Fiancee Visa. All the stacks of paper work are done - I-129F, DS-156, 156k, 157, 169, Police background check, Medical report, yada, yada, yada. We are just waiting for the last step the Visa interview at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok. They could get back to us with a date anytime anytime in the next 4-10 weeks. Do you think there might be a few other U.S. citizens trying to get fiancee visas? Well you’d be right! Take a look at just the August list here! We are just cogs in a wheel.
We are still on track for moving back in late November I think but it will be more definitive once the interview date is set. Toi has a jammed packed schedule until we leave. She works 9 hour shifts at the Sheraton Hotel for her Thai Chef School internship and she has to work every day instead of the usual 6 days a week, so she can save up enough days to go to Bangkok for a seminar class in her University program. The internship is over October 23 followed by her University finals on the 31st. At this point she’ll have work about 3 and half months with out a single day off! Poor girl! And as a consolation prize what does she get? Me… poor girl!
If all goes well we’ll get our target date for a visa interview on Nov 2nd. If that all goes well we’ll come back to to Chiang Mai and have a Buddhist ceremony for Toi’s family, but we technically won’t be married. I hope we can have a short Thai honeymoon down in the islands because we won’t be seeing those again for some time.
Then we’ll buy plane tickets back to the US maybe around November 15th-25th. After we get to Denver we have a couple days to buy a car, find an apartment and move in. Then finally “The Wedding II - Reloaded” and of course you’re all invited! My latest idea is to have it up in the Pouder Canyon outside Ft. Collins, but more to come on that later. I’ll sent an actual date as soon as I have the Visa interview date, and then things will start happening pretty fast.
Stay tuned.
Congrats, we are looking forward to meeting your bride to be. I can only assume that she will be learning to ski this year, so I plan on seeing you two on the slopes.
Good luck with the fiance visa, my buddy went through the same process, married a Russian. What a pain!
later
Ted
Toi sounds as industrious and creative as you are- all the best navigating the red tape… just remember our national security is at stake!:twisted:
Yes Toi could actually be a spy for the Buddhist separatists planning to take over!
:shock:Wow! What a mountain of paperwork!
Once you are married and settled it will all seem like a piece of cake. Then the real fun will begin…
Congratulations!
P.S.
XP’s new service pack 2 claims there are all sorts of errors on your various pages, whatever that means…
P.P.S
Hey! A message from Ted! Hope all is well with you brother! Out of the desert I presume?
Baby is awake…bye!
Scott,
I met you while doing my traveling year abroad. Do you remember thanksgiving at the FCC in Phnom Phen. Soma is my name and Jeroma was my sister. I just wanted to say that its very neat to read about your story as I am going through the same thing. The only difference I met an englishman in Thailand. Im planning to move to England but Phil has been here in the states and has so far had to leave every three months. We are planning to get married. Its neat to hear that another traveler met their love while traveling the world. Best of luck to you both. Soma