Update on my wife...

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

But isn't it marked on the record that she was already denied once? Surely that's got to affect how they look at your case.

She was actually never turned down. They sent her papers back to America because they didn't believe in her, but they were never closed, and never turned down.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

They also answer to 293,027,570 other masters.

the org chart is a bitch

Tough org chart, but those 293,027,570 people aren't demanding that my wife be kept out or that our relationship be judged. They only want to make sure she's not a danger.

[Tonchi]

Um, Radar, this is the point at which you are supposed to be slipping them the bribe. Otherwise, they will be "looking at" your paperwork until the next revolution there.

And you better lose that "public servants work for me" attitude, they chew up and spit out dozens just like you every week. Been there, done that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I think he's refering to the US consulate. We all know US gumint employees don't take bribes.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Tonchi

Um, Radar, this is the point at which you are supposed to be slipping them the bribe. Otherwise, they will be "looking at" your paperwork until the next revolution there.

The thought has crossed my mind. I'd have done it already if the problem was with the Vietnamese government, but many people have lost jobs at the Consulate or their cases when they try to bribe the U.S. workers.

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by Radar

The thought has crossed my mind. I'd have done it already if the problem was with the Vietnamese government, but many people have lost jobs at the Consulate or their cases when they try to bribe the U.S. workers.

I think it rubs off on them, Radar. It's like, when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. Imagine how I felt when I found out that supposedly AMERICAN citizens who are consuls in Manila have special bank accounts set up for laundering the bribes they require? How insufferably arrogant they are with the applicants like us who take a number and get in line while completely uninvestigated people who pay up sail right through. My friend has an aunt who got into an arranged marriage with a man who had been a friend of her father's, just to get out of the Philippines. Every time she leaves to go back to the US for an interview (she doesn't even live there with her new husband) they pay $5,000 for her exit-and-return visa to be approved

[Radar]

I bought a ticket today to go to Vietnam. I'll be leaving on May 19th and coming back June 4th. Hopefully I'll be able to arrange a meeting with my servants while I'm there.

I'll also travel around a bit with just me and my wife. This is the first time I've gone to Vietnam alone, and it will be the most time we've had alone together. Her family even came with us on our honeymoon.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Tell them you have connections in Philadelphia.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Radar

Tough org chart, but those 293,027,570 people aren't demanding that my wife be kept out or that our relationship be judged. They only want to make sure she's not a danger.

You know that's not true; a very large number of them don't want her in at all.