Our papers were filed at the US embassy last Wed.! Hopefully we'll hear something in a week or two. Please pray that the papers are all acceptable to them and that they don't need anything new!
On another note our US gov't fingerprints (for background checks) expire Sept. 1. This of course is cutting it very close to when we will be traveling. Our agency has strongly encouraged us to get them updated, but when we contacted Bangkok they kept saying wait. To make matters worse we're now on different sides of the planet and were at a loss of how to do it. Our agency very kindly called to get some information and for me to get fingerprinted in the States it was going to take about 45 days just to get an appointment! Matt finally got a hold of someone in Bangkok and they said, "You don't need to be refingerprinted, we'll just run the last prints again AND there is no charge." This is a minor miracle--it's all in who you talk to!
On another note our US gov't fingerprints (for background checks) expire Sept. 1. This of course is cutting it very close to when we will be traveling. Our agency has strongly encouraged us to get them updated, but when we contacted Bangkok they kept saying wait. To make matters worse we're now on different sides of the planet and were at a loss of how to do it. Our agency very kindly called to get some information and for me to get fingerprinted in the States it was going to take about 45 days just to get an appointment! Matt finally got a hold of someone in Bangkok and they said, "You don't need to be refingerprinted, we'll just run the last prints again AND there is no charge." This is a minor miracle--it's all in who you talk to!
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