Thursday, October 16, 2008
F**k it ALL (Adult eyes ONLY!)
I will take back what I said about going to the Embassy. I sent an email asking about it just to make sure, and I guess my paper that says I'm waiting for my real visa isn't good enough. EVEN though it says on it, you can do everything that a permanent Chilean resident can. Obviously I can't!! Because a permanent Chilean resident CAN go to the Embassy and it WILL work for them!! Fucking shit! Now I have to wait at the longest until January 6th before my fucking "real visa" comes!! THEN I have to bring the application for the visa to the Embassy and wait 2 months!!! AFTER that, we have to wait ONE month for our fucking interview and then two weeks after that for the visa to be put into Ro's passport! Raise you hand if you know when I will be home!!! Guess everyone, take a big fat fucking guess!!! April 20th, 2009 and that is an estimate using the longest time it will take to get my residence visa here and the shortest time it will take for the application process. I am never going to get home! Ever! Everything has to be a big long drawn out fucking process! I am a citizen of the United States of America! I have the right to marry whoever I want to! Why can't I get my husband into my country without all of this bullshit!?!? NOW, I will be lucky to be home before my niece/nephew is born! I won't even get to see Lynn waddle around like a duck what a rip off!!! There goes my ONE happy fantastic ENTIRE YEAR in the US before I have to come back to this fucking Chilean HELL hole for 2 ENTIRE YEARS! I am trapped, I have never ever been trapped in my life and now I am and it fucking sucks!!
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That sucks that you thought it would be faster. I'm pretty sure from friends' experiences that you need to be married and live in Chile for 6 months before applying for a visa for your spouse. You should check if that's 6 months total, including tourist visa time, or 6 months of official permanent residence with your resident visa, so that you don't get your hopes up again and then get let down.
Rather than feeling trapped, try to figure out a way to enjoy it more. You married a Chilean, Chile will always be a part of your life, like it or not. Work on learning Spanish so you have more independence, and recognizing cultural differences as different rather than wrong. I bitch about Chile sometimes too, but if you don't learn to deal with it the only person who suffers is you. Good luck.
I did check into it and I will bring the email with me to the Embassy as proof! They told me that I just had to prove that I was in Chile for 6 months. I don't have to have my visa for 6 months.
As for feeling trapped I am trapped, yes I married a Chilean and I understand that it will be part of my life, but when we live with his parents not only does my husband freak when I want to go somewhere without him, but so does my MIL! SO really even if I learned Spanish that wouldn't protect me from the "dangers" and I say that with quotes because I know its dangerous, but not as dangerous as they seem to think it is, hell every other gringa I know goes out and about just fine!
wow..i can feel that you´re really upset..
i dont know if you remember when you wrote something about visas in your blog..(when you were trying to find one for rodrigo) and i told you how long you would be waiting before go to the states again after get married..
when i was thinking about what would be better for me..if get married first here or in the US... someone told me that here the process is really slow...and in the US would be the same for me... a long process... and a long time waiting before to get a visa...because i dont belong there..as you dont belong here...
try to do what Emily says... i know that you hate this place and also live with the "family" ..
maybe you need to find something interesting to do..in that way the time will fly...
good luck!!!!
OK so lots of rants and raves and I understand but don't really understand the process. It sucks waiting for things. But where have I been??? Your sister, lynn.. pregnant... I didn't even know... Does everyone else know??? Email me please.
duuuuuuuude that sucks, i´m sorry! paperwork is the WORST. we´ll just have to hang out lots more, and find stuff for you to do that will make the time pass more quickly! as far as tonight, i´d love to go but i´m going to a little get together for the girlfriend of one of Diego´s and my friends, who got here from the U.S. today. but tomorrow night, i´m free if you want to hang out! i have to work tomorrow but i should be home by 7. let me know if you have anything in particular you´d like to do.
Wow. I totally understand your frustration. Beaurocracy and immigration in every country suck, I have come to realize.
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