This Week in Review

This week, Ian was able to get his state ID.   This means that he has his first official piece of US identification and no longer has to rely on his passport and his about-to-expire landing card for ID.  

We managed to locate the USCIS office downtown to show up on time for Ian’s biometrics appointment.   It is an interesting story in itself, involving a car with no working windshield wipers, lots of road splatter from melting snow and the fact that the USCIS office building is SO new, it was not locatable “exactly” by the satnav.   The satnav got us in the general vicinity, but we had to rely on building numbers to figure out if we were supposed to be proceeding east or west… by the airport, where street numbering is a bit opposite of what we are used to.

At one point, the satnav refused to offer up instructions as quickly as needed, especially when I had to choose to either get to the far right lane of the interstate or the far left, because of a horrific accident involving at least one flipped over vehicle. 

It was a mess, but we made it exactly on time.   The people at the biometrics office were nice and also quick, and another tickmark is checked off the “things to do” list to keep Ian in the US.

Wednesday, we managed to obtain the medical form, which USCIS requested  in their “did you send us all the correct paperwork” review.   It was filled out and signed off on by a Civil Surgeon, who is a special doctor appointed by immigration to address medical issues.   You can’t just go to any doctor you like.  

We sent the paperwork back to USCIS the following day, and it arrived Friday.  Soon, we’ll be getting an email saying, “Thanks for the submission.  Your case is being processed again.”

Aside from that… Work was very busy.   I’m putting a new Intranet together using 人间天堂免费视频观看 at the hubby’s suggestion, which is quite interesting (and works well) .   Lots of other things going on there, as well, but I don’t want to put anyone to sleep.  🙂

It’s the weekend.  Thank God.   🙂