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jetmba.

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	Send: 2/2/2005 4:58:03 PM

Thunder - maybe if I wore a nice pendant - and squeezed my pectorals (those are the chest muscles guys) together enough to get a little cleavage. I don't think it would actually help though. And Nebraska is more than 800 miles from where I live so driving there doesn't seem to be an option anyway. I did pack nummerous "raincoats" by the way - but nary an umbrella (because without you can get a lot worse than wet feet). Trad - it costs $165 to send in that visa application which I guess pays for the storage fees they must add on for keeping the damn things five months before actually acting on them. I'm actually beginning to wonder about Thunder..... hmmmm.

tradman

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	Send: 2/3/2005 2:57:18 AM

Sounds a lot cheaper for you guys

Thunderdome

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	Send: 2/3/2005 6:45:47 AM

Trad, I'm sure Jet would gladly pay more if time could be saved. Wondering Jet? About what - my cute pendant (with matching ringS and watch and bracelet, goes without saying) or you're getting jealous about the fact that a tourist-visa (90 days) is enough for any visitor here? Now I am wondering.... :)

jetmba.

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	Send: 2/3/2005 7:24:33 AM

actually both Thunder - Trad - that's just the initial application fee - we will have to pay for a medical exam (about $100) and the final visa when granted (I don't recall exactly - becuase its so far in the future, but I think its over $200 extra). Plus hotel stay and travel expense as she waits several days in Bucharest with Mommy to accompany her. we have not yet begun to spend.

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	Send: 2/3/2005 12:03:52 PM

Aha - then I'm glad I kept silent about numerous tattoos and the fact that this visa is free and not refused unless you try to enter without a valid return ticket (any: land, sea, air). Oh, you also have to promise you won't be looking for paid employment during your stay. Yeah right. If you fill in "Who? Me? Never!!" they'll ask you to change it to 'No' (done that :)) I've entered once without money or a passport, simply because I speak the language and told them they were welcome to lock me up, but back I wasn't going. So someone entering with a visa (stamp in passport from embassy/consulate) is let in with a welcome, as simple as that. And to obtain that stamp all it takes is a trip with a valid ticket & passport. Different strokes for different folks Jet, pros & cons too no doubt. This country has not thousands but millions (10**6 's) of illegal aliens who long time since have acquired proper citizenship by means of paying a non-proper 'donation' to someone in the proper place. Keep wondering... ;-)

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	Send: 2/4/2005 3:05:35 AM

ok, mine was �260 each for her and daughter, and it was the only fee I had to pay(I guess at todays exchange rate, about $488 each. Her visa expires in April, I have to pay another $488 for a 2 year visa, although this time they are both covered with one payment

jetmba.

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	Send: 2/4/2005 4:28:23 AM

Estimates I've seen for all the required fees, pictures , medical exams etc. are around $850 total. But of course she is worth a million times that much - and more. Plus the wait.

jetmba.

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	Send: 2/4/2005 4:33:45 AM

And I'm also going to have to finace at least a thre day trip to Bucharest for her and her mother. Regretably, I won't be able to go at that time and of course she needs a traveling comanion. The medical exam must be had (I am told) in Bucharest and finished, with xrays, before the actual interview can be had. This will add some expense that he wouldn't have had if she could just go to the local embassy in Chisinau, Moldova.

jetmba.

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	Send: 2/4/2005 4:43:11 AM

We're talking here about 6 to 8 months of headaches, beauracatic bungling, and ridiculous forms. Probably several thousand dollars in expenses, all inclusive, before its all done, and a trip to a completely foreign country (for her - I mean Romania) that she has never been to just to get a hostile interview (or so Bucharests reputation goes) so that I can eventually marry the woman I love. And what do we get out of this? The right for me to finally buy her a ticket and for her to cross a border into the US. And all this is for the US Government - you know - a supposedly civilized, human-rights-respecting country that I pay dearly to support with taxes. Would have been so much easier if I had only fallen in love with an illegal Mexican alien. A lot faster to be together and so much less expensive.

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	Send: 2/4/2005 8:32:43 AM

I'm sure many good and loving relationships get blown to smitterings due to the frustrations of waiting or navigating through the inmigration redtape maze. But, Jet... if expediency and cost effectiveness were your priorities you'd already be married to Juana, the squat short legged mexican woman. Instead, you're engaged to a gorgeous european woman, correct? It looks like I will soon join the ranks of the eagerly and frustratingly waiting for the fiance visa to be processed, and just like you, rat bastards, I will whine bitch and moan about how unfair it is to ME and my lady, heck, maybe even louder, damn it...but deep inside I think we all know we only have to go this shit once. And it's still better to the alternatives. toad

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	Send: 2/4/2005 1:00:33 PM

True enough Toad. (Can't wait to hear YOUR whining. You do it quite creatively.) But then again - you live in California and theat district is the second fastest. (Next to Vermont which practically approves petition requests before you've sent them in!) Out of sympathy for the trials of the rest of us - would you care to move to Texas or near Nebraska (seems you don't even have to live especially CLOSE to Nebrask to get that gawd-aeful service center) so the experience is as much fun?

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