Posted by: Nic
After only a week of work I am technically unemployed!!! It appears the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services made an error on my work authorization. They issued me my permit on December 5 2006 (12/05/06) but the card says I am eligible to start working on 12/02/07! That's a year from now!!! The people here said they think some one typed 07 when they meant to type 06!!! Regardless they said they can't let me work!
So I need to reapply for my permit again at a cost of $180 and with a turn around time of up to 3 months. Alternatively I can apply for a different work visa, as I was going to have to do any way, at a cost of about $500 and with a turn around time of 4 months. I have the options of paying for this to be expedited to 1 month at an additional cost of $1000!
*SIGH*
So far EVERY SINGLE official document we have received here has had an error!
And thanks to Chris, Rod, Tim, Lori and Helena for your nice messages!
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5 comments:
good to see you are off to a good start
Oh how much I despise that country
No no, the country is lovely and 90% of the people are pretty decent.
It is the other 10% who are jerks who ruin it (they also appear to be the one who run the bureaucracy).
It just might be time to start up "Nic's Olde Moonshinery" after all! ;)
Seriously, though, hope you manage to cut through the red tape!!
I can see why some people go postal over there!!
Chin up! The Mexicans still seem to get paid. ;)
Cheers, Tim.
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