the final (hopefully) countdown
The papers from mom got to us on Monday and were picked up by the courier to go to the US Embassy on Tuesday morning. So hopefully they should arrive there today. According to the guy we spoke to at the interview, it should be easy to process and technically could be done the day it arrives and sent back. However, we know from experience that nothing goes as easily or quickly as it should. So we're giving them a week. Then we will start harassing them to get it back to us. We sent Andrew's passport in with the papers because thats what they put the visa into. Thankfully we don't need to go back to London to the Embassy because everything else has been checked off and done. We just need to wait for Andrew's passport to arrive back with the visa in it.
Other than that we've been working on other things for moving. Andrew is going to a car boot sale to sell off most of the stuff we won't be taking with us. Which I actually find quite sad. Especially since he's selling off my much beloved hand blender and mattress topper. (Both of which are pointless to take to the US because beds are different sizes and voltage is different) But still. The car has been put for sale online and will be in the Auto Trader coming out tomorrow so that will hopefully be sold soon. The movers are booked for Monday 21st. Things are started to make their way upstairs in preparation of packing the boxes. Farewell parties are arranged. Notice has been given at both jobs. Its kinda weird because for a very long time it seemed like we would never get to the US and then even though we don't have the visa in our hands yet, its coming up all of a sudden and there is so much to do! And we're both very excited but sad too.
posted by Brittany @ 8/02/2006
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3 Comments:
So have you gotten the visa yet?
Did you sell a lot of stuff at the car boot sale?
What do you need movers for? Are you getting a storage unit or something?
We haven't got the visa back yet, so much prayer would be appreciated for that, as at the moment, I cant travel.
We did pretty well at the car boot sale. We arrived at 7:30am, and there were LOADS of people there. As soon as we arrived, people came around our car and basically started looking in all the stuff in there. We had to tell them to back off and wait a second til we got set up.
I got rid of pretty much two thirds of my videos, and everything else of note. I still have about 60-70 videos though, which will probably go to good will or something, as no-one else seems to want videos anymore.
As for movers. We are shipping about 3 or 4 large boxes of stuff. Its things like cds, dvds, kitchen stuff etc, that we just dont have room for in our baggage allowance. We have to inventory everything, and it has to be of a certain age, so that we don't get charged tax upon entering. We boxed finished one box last night, which was great.
Glad you did so well at the sale - wow, this is really happening - I hope! We will keep praying that the visa gets processed quickly
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