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03/17/2005 6:57 am by bbirney (0 comments)
Yesterday, Hop received notification that she would be issued a K1 visa to enter the United States. She will be issued the visa on Monday. This is, of course, very exciting news for me, especially coming after eight months of slogging...Take 2
02/21/2005 5:59 pm by bbirney (0 comments)
Hop is currently in Ho Chi Minh City. This afternoon (very early in the morning for those of us in the USA) she will submit the documents required by the consulate to overcome the denial of her visa application. It is possible, though, I think,...Pretty much all bad news
01/24/2005 12:36 am by bbirney (0 comments)
Hop was not granted a visa at the interview today. They require an Affidavit of Support from me instead of from any sponsor, which was not stated in the instructions, and they told Hop she was lying about our eight years of correspondence because...Good news, bad news
01/20/2005 7:03 pm by bbirney (0 comments)
I am here safely in HCMC at the Metropole Hotel. The number (from the US) is 011.84.8.9201940 room 615 - please keep in mind there is a 12 hour difference between US Eastern and GMT+0700! I'm sorry to report that Hop's father passed away...The anthropologist story
01/13/2005 8:10 am by bbirney (0 comments)
A nice story - for a Tuesday morning The story behind the letter below is that there is this nutball who digs things out of his back yard and sends the stuff he finds to the Smithsonian Institute,labeling them with scientific names,...