And I am going to America!
Woke up bladdy early in the morning to make sure I arrived at the embassy by 820 am which is when my appointment was.
Nearly had a heart attack in the car because the traffic police let every lane but mine go! And he let each lane go for like 5 minutes each or something.
I don’t know why all traffic cops in KL city do this to me! Other places never mind wan but the minute I drive into the vicinity of the city this has to happen! It’s like Murphy’s Law on the road.
Anyway finally got to the embassy, was passed through a scanner, had my keys and BB taken away from me, swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me god wtf.
No la I wasn’t telling the truth about that last part about telling the truth ^^
Damn stressful lor inside the US embassy! You can’t do anything without fear of reprimand. If you try to open a door and the guard is not ready, he’ll wave for you to step away first! And you have to stand in fear outside until he waves you in.
I brought a book along to read cos it takes about two hours for the whole process but I was too scared to read it WTF.
I mean what if I was too engrossed in reading and I missed them calling my number and they think I’m not sincere in wanting a visa WTF.
So I sat on the edge of my seat the whole time and made sure my ears were free of ear wax and listened intently.
Then when it was my turn, I had to be fingerprinted.
Had to wipe my hands on my skirt several times because the lady said my fingers were too sweaty -_-
And then I had to wait a while more to get called for the interview.
The interview is the most crucial portion of the whole application. It doesn’t matter how many documents you bring but everything hangs on your ability to pass the interview.
You have to convince the interviewer that you are not going to disappear in the US and reappear washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant wtf.
While I was waiting I heard this middle aged lady telling her interviewer “I have a house here! And a car!” WTF I guess she looked like the type to jump ship.
One of my readers told me she hoped I wouldn’t get the Asian guy in the booth second from left cos he was mean or something.
Well there was no Asian guy in the booth second from left. He was sitting in the booth second from right. And I got him WTF.
But he was actually really nice! He asked me if I had gone to school in the US and where so I told him Mount Holyoke and he nodded knowingly wtf. He said “out of my personal curiosity, what did you study?” I told him Asian Studies and he laughed and said “so you went to the US to study Asian Studies? Soon we’ll have Americans coming to Asia to study America” WTF make fun of me T3T
Then he asked me why was I going to the US now and I said for my brother’s graduation. He asked where and when I told him Wabash he didn’t believe it was a real school hahahaahah sorry Ooib. He had to google it before saying “wow it is a real school” WTF.
He didn’t ask that many questions or was very interrogative also! Maybe because I told him about Wombeh (serious relationship = less likely to run away) and that I’d came home right after I graduated cos I didn’t think I would be able to find a job there.
He just said “ok I am giving you a ten year visa. Congratulations on your brother’s graduation” ^______^
Congratulations on my visa application success ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Going to go look at Broadway tickets with Wombeh now!
Comments (20)
yay! you got visa!
you explain it like you were having a police interrogation. XD
10 years?!? is that multiple entry or just single entry?
congratulation aud!
congratulations!! the visa is really for 10 years? I didn’t know it was for so long one!! i thought only 2 weeks or something but then i never been to US of A before!
YAY!!!
Sounds like you got an atypical bureaucrat. Trust me, the American bureaucracy typically isn’t that pleasant.
Congrats on getting your 10 year visa. That means you can visit as often as finances and time allow. Enjoy New Yawk!
You are going to America soon~ so nice! Have an enjoyable trip there! 😉
so many congrats! but congrats anyway!!! <3<3
yay!!! please enjoy loadsloads!!
Congratz~~~Audrey :)n very happy soon we can read the funny and happy story about u and angela againz~~ i love all the post with both of u in 🙂
tahniah :p
congrat !!! hmmm 10 years visa ?? is true ??
i applied my us visa in my final year studies, and they didn’t approve it because they thought i was in overseas for years already (and i was in my FINAL year)and i would go there to jump ship wtf! they said i didn’t have enough social-economics attachment in where i studied, because lah, i was a student back then. and i didn’t have a job or a family there (where i studied) wtf, but i DO have a family back in m’sia ok! who wants to work illegally in their country anyway, their officials were very rude. the interview was lasted in a few seconds only, and i didn’t even have the chance to explain why i wanted to go there and the interviewer just passed me thousand pages of us immigration laws and asked me to leave wtf! still very sad because i didn’t manage to see my then bf and we broke up a few months later. 🙁
i got other friends who need to purchase the tickets and book the hotels first before going for the interview with no guarantee of getting it. i guess being students in foreign countries makes it VERY difficult to apply a f**king us visa!
congrats btw!
have fun in the us! 🙂
Ah so nice! Please shop on my behalf wtf
10 years~ Congrats ya!=)
you’re coming.
i’m happy.
<3
SEE YOU SOON.
Unless there is a specific Broadway show that you already have in mind, you should just wait until the day you plan to watch the show and head over to the TKTS booth to get your tixs. You can sometimes get awesome seats for really cheap! 😀
lol. I plan go to US too for a trip.But i didnt know that apply a US visa is so damn strict!!Wtf.
Congrats!!!! Have fun! Oh…let us know which broadway show you’ve watch…I’m planning on Wicked or Mary Poppin
Oppss my bad…apparently they switch booth eh? (I was the one who told you Asian guy was strict)
Asian guy definitely was in a good mood that day =P.
Yeap. The guy second from left can be kinda mean sometimes. His looks already u wanna punch him already. Haha.
The second from right guy is kinda nice. Lucky you got him.
Even more interesting if you got the guy on the first left. He is damn funny…