Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Vietnam	visa-vietnam.org	This should be what you're looking for? http://mienthithucvk...36/Default.aspx	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-11-16 12:36:00
Vietnam	HCM Consulate Interview (week of 11/16/09)	pinnnnnnnnnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!! she just cried with me on the phone for about 40 minutes and webcam and wouldn't tell me the results then all of a sudden she gets happy and told me she was approved!	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-11-17 03:57:00
Vietnam	HCM Consulate Interview (week of 11/16/09)	Kha Han ended up not going early because she couldn't sleep until 4AM. She should be there in a few minutes.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-11-16 20:41:00
Vietnam	HCM Consulate Interview (week of 11/16/09)	Kha Han should be in line right now. I'm not going to try and think about it so I can get rest if it is too late, but I think she should be out before noon (VN time).	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-11-16 18:06:00
Vietnam	HCMC Interview experience - 12/15/2009	Gratz! When Kha Han had her interview, they asked her if she could speak English and she said "Just so-so. I would prefer to have the interview in Vietnamese", but they continued to have it in English possibly because they thought her English was pretty good. Luckily, she didn't have any issues with the interview in English. Kha Han was just asked a few questions, too. Where do I work? What do I do for my job? What do I like to do in my free time? The names of my parents and siblings	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-12-16 14:01:00
Vietnam	IT needs in Viet Nam	Wow, really? I work in IT in the US and Kha Han wants me to move to Vietnam, but I didn't think I would be able to find an IT job there. I would certainly be interested.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-12-31 23:11:00
Vietnam	Visa application form (Vietnam DC Embassy)	visaform_11.06.pdf   78.46KB   31 downloads I am not sure if there is a spot this can go on this website, but I made a fillable form for the Vietnam visa application that can be used instead of having to hand write everything. I also made it so you can save the form, too. Let me know if you find any errors. Also, I had no problem getting a visa using this method.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-01-06 12:40:00
Vietnam	Fillable AND saveable forms	I've used Nitro PDF Professional and Adobe Acrobat.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-01-08 14:05:00
Vietnam	HCMC VJ Timelines	I would like to have my timeline updated, but Kha Han won't be here until late April 27th since she needs to take care of many things before she comes here.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-01-12 17:07:00
Vietnam	We are open	I'll be sure to stop by around Tet, too.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-09-14 18:02:00
Vietnam	driving in vietnam	I've only heard that you can only ride a motorbike with a Vietnamese license International driving permits and U.S. drivers' licenses are not valid in Vietnam. Foreigners renting vehicles risk prosecution and/or imprisonment for driving without a Vietnamese license endorsed for the appropriate vehicle. U.S. citizens who wish to drive in Vietnam should contact any office of the Provincial Public Transportation Service of the Vietnamese Department of Communications and Transport to obtain a Vietnamese driver's license. The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi and Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City cannot assist U.S. citizens in obtaining Vietnamese driver's permits or notarize U.S. drivers' licenses for use in Vietnam. http://travel.state....s/cis_1060.html http://www.vietnam.a...als_vietnam.php http://www.vietnam.e...in_Vietnam.html	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-03-20 20:54:00
Vietnam	Anthony Bourdain	I just watched the first 2 episodes yesterday and it was a porcupine.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-03-26 22:27:00
Vietnam	Guess what?	gratz!	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-03-05 10:22:00
Vietnam	Magic Jack	The $119 per year is for their premium services, which it optional. Also, you can take it anywhere in the world. The company even recommends doing that. Edited by Bob-KhaHan, 23 February 2010 - 10:31 AM.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-02-23 10:29:00
Vietnam	Magic Jack	I'll be brining an Ooma device over to Vietnam to give to my fiancee's parents. That way they don't have to keep a computer powered on 24/7 and it only uses 5 watts of energy. Here is something I posted on Amazon's website (for someone that said Ooma was too expensive in comparison to Magic Jack. since i was going back and forth between the two, i wanted to get the real numbers): I calculated the typical cost (in MI) to keep a computer on to run Magic Jack and it would be about $85 - $120+ per year. Now since the Telo uses power, too, I calculated that the electricity cost would be $3.65 per year. If you used netbook for the magic jack, the energy cost would be about $14 - $20 per year, but you would have to add the extra $300 to buy a dedicated notebook. I am not sure if a notebook would be fast enough for the Magic Jack so if anyone wants to do this path, then they should research if this is feasible. 5 year cost comparison using lowest numbers ($85 energy cost for regular computer; $14 for netbook; Ooma supposedly has a $12 / year fee for taxes after the first year; $20 annual MJ fee): $545 Magic Jack (regular computer) $490 Magic Jack (netbook) $296.25 Ooma 10 year costs (not including computer replacement costs) $1070 Magic Jack (regular computer) $660 Magic Jack (netbook) $374.50 Ooma If the netbook last 5 years (which is pretty long for this type of computer), then that means you'll have to buy another netbook for the 2nd half of that 10 year cost brining the 10 year cost to $960. Using a dedicated regular computer would cost a lot more, but if the computer wasn't a dedicated machine then I won't add those costs. FYI: I don't have either of these services, but have been considering both. Doing these calculations just gave me a good idea which service has the lowest cost. The rates in Vietnam are cheaper than in MI, so here are the yearly energy costs for Vietnam: $65.70 MagicJack (regular computer) $8.76 MagicJack (netbook) $2.19 Ooma 5 year cost comparison (Vietnam) $448.50 Magic Jack (regular computer) $463.80 Magic Jack (netbook) $367..20 Ooma 10 year cost comparison (Vietnam) $877 Magic Jack (regular computer) $607.60 Magic Jack (netbook) $359.90 Ooma Edited by Bob-KhaHan, 22 February 2010 - 11:41 PM.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-02-22 23:40:00
Vietnam	Airline tickets	I google Travelosity and it gave me an error. 1180 is a good price. how long is the ticket? 1month, 3 months, 6 months, or 1YR? Here is the correct address: http://www.travelocity.com/	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2011-03-03 16:58:00
Vietnam	Vietnam VisaJourney Members	"A list of VJ members traveling to Vietnam" Please post your name and date if you are in, going to, or thinking about traveling to Vietnam... Please DO NOT post interview dates--leave those for your timeline/signature... CURRENTLY IN VIETNAM Mr. Saigon........................Living In Vietnam (HCMC) Ralph&Hanh........................Living In Vietnam (HCMC) Jeromebinh........................Living in Vietnam (HCMC) Bob-KhaHan........................April 17, 2010 - April 27, 2010 GOING TO VIETNAM Dang Lang Thang...................April 19, 2010 - June 7, 2010 julian&hien.......................April 28,2010 - May 22,2010 lambchop4life.....................May 10, 2010 - May 29, 2010 - my wife's 27th birthday James & Nicole....................May 21(?), 2010 - May31, 2010	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-04-18 04:57:00
Vietnam	Vietnam VisaJourney Members	A list of VJ member traveling to Vietnam" Please post your name and date if you are in, going to, or thinking about traveling to Vietnam... Please DO NOT post interview dates--leave those for your timeline/signature... CURRENTLY IN VIETNAM Mr. Saigon..........................................Living In Vietnam (HCMC) Ralph&Hanh........................................Living In Vietnam (HCMC) ksoh08..............................................December 5,2009 - March 4, 2010 Huong and Phung...............................December 30, 2009 - January 30, 2010 GOING TO VIETNAM Ronnie&Hang.....................................January 16, 2010 - February 21, 2010 (revised) Matt_Steven......................................January 16, 2010 - February 8, 2010 Icarus...............................................Mid-January 2010 - Mid-March 2010 hniHnitsuJ (aka Loi and Suong)............February 2010 for Tet b_weeks............................................February 2010 for Tet Mike n Huong.....................................February 2010 for Tet Kevin and Tuyen................................End of January 2010 - Mid February 2010 Greg & Lien.......................................March 30, 2010 - April 13, 2010 Bob-KhaHan.......................................April 17, 2010 - April 27, 2010 James & Nicole...................................May 21?-31 2010	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-01-17 00:31:00
Vietnam	Vietnam VisaJourney Members	removing myself from the list A list of VJ member traveling to Vietnam" Please post your name and date if you are in, going to, or thinking about traveling to Vietnam... Please DO NOT post interview dates--leave those for your timeline/signature... CURRENTLY IN VIETNAM Mr. Saigon..........................................Living In Vietnam Ralph&Hanh........................................Living In Vietnam Dai TX................................................October 9, 2009 - December 2, 2009 toantien.............................................November 4, 2009 - ??? wratran.............................................November 14, 2009 - ??? GreenT.............................................November 17, 2009 - December 10, 2009 DansJourney......................................November 20, 2009 - December 9, 2009 Ashley and Cuong..............................November 24, 2009 - ??? bn010809..........................................around November 25th ScottThuy..........................................November 26, 2009 - December 2, 2009 cavoi xanh1.......................................Thanksgiving - Christmas 2009 GOING TO VIETNAM Matt_Steven......................................January 16, 2010 - February 8, 2010 Icarus...............................................Mid-January 2010 - Mid-March 2010 Ronnie&Hang.................................January 14, 2010 - February 19, 2010 hniHnitsuJ (aka Loi and Suong)............February 2010 for Tet b_weeks............................................February 2010 for Tet Mike n Huong.....................................February 2010 for Tet Huong and Phung...............................December 30, 2009 - January 30, 2010 THINKING ABOUT GOING TO VIETNAM Kevin and Tuyen................................Christmas or Tet	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-12-01 00:41:00
Vietnam	Vietnam VisaJourney Members	"A list of VJ member traveling to Vietnam" Please post your name and date if you are in, going to, or thinking about traveling to Vietnam... Please DO NOT post interview dates--leave those for your timeline/signature... CURRENTLY IN VIETNAM Mr. Saigon..........................................Living In Vietnam Ralph&Hanh........................................Living In Vietnam Dai TX................................................October 9, 2009 - December 2, 2009 toantien.............................................November 4, 2009 - ??? wratran.............................................November 14, 2009 - ??? GreenT.............................................November 17, 2009 - December 10, 2009 GOING TO VIETNAM Ashley and Cuong..............................November 24, 2009 - ??? bn010809..........................................around November 25th ScottThuy..........................................November 26, 2009 - December 2, 2009 cavoi xanh1.......................................Thanksgiving - Christmas 2009 Matt_Steven......................................January 16, 2010 - February 8, 2010 Icarus...............................................Mid-January 2010 - Mid-March 2010 Ronnie&Hang.....................................January 2010 hniHnitsuJ (aka Loi and Suong)............February 2010 for Tet b_weeks............................................February 2010 for Tet Mike n Huong.....................................February 2010 for Tet Bob-KhaHan.......................................February 2010 for Tet and bring Kha Han to USA Huong and Phung...............................December 30, 2009 - January 30, 2010 DansJourney......................................November 20, 2009 - December 9, 2009 THINKING ABOUT GOING TO VIETNAM Kevin and Tuyen................................Christmas or Tet	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-11-19 22:56:00
Vietnam	HCMC Interview roll call	gratz!	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2010-01-05 09:46:00
Asia: East and Pacific	an overdue update	I hope the interview goes well and I look forward to hearing how it went.	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2008-11-01 22:09:00
Asia: East and Pacific	HCMC interview	gratz!	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2008-11-25 19:18:00
Asia: East and Pacific	Current Vietnam Visa Prices.	I sent in for my visa application to DC on Monday (just got it today) and here is what an email said before I sent it in: CODE   - $65.00/ EACH PERSON - $25.00 IS VISA FEE, $40.00 IS APPROVAL ARRANGEMENT AND REGULAR PROCESSING FEE AND THE TOTAL FEE IS $65 (REGULAR SERVICE - 5-7  BUSINESS DAYS).   - $85.00/ EACH PERSON - $25.00 IS VISA FEE, $60.00 IS APPROVAL ARRANGEMENT AND RUSH PROCESSING FEE AND THE TOTAL FEE IS $85(RUSH SERVICE - 02-3 BUSINESS DAYS).	Bob-KhaHan	Male	Vietnam	2009-02-07 20:22:00
USCIS Service Centers	Underestimated Time for NOA2	I travelled to the USA in January while my I-129F is pending and I'm going back in March. So you are allowed to visit while the visa is pending.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-02-24 13:53:00
USCIS Service Centers	Such a loooooong wait!	We filed in July and havent heard anything yet. They take ages and need to get a move on! People have lives they wanna live and do not want to waste time being apart!	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-02-23 15:31:00
USCIS Service Centers	What is going on with CSC?	I hope you made an info pass to get your passport stamped? not sure if that lasts more than a year but i know our extension letters are only good for one year and damn poor you! your almost at that!    Sheesh!! these service centers really need to fix ####### like this.   I don't even know what an info pass is? What does it do?	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-05-06 15:21:00
USCIS Service Centers	What is going on with CSC?	oh my goodness you poor thing this time next month it will be almost a year!   Its a joke how long theyre taking! Luckily I get to visit every few months but its costing me so much. I'm visiting for 5 weeks in June so hopefully we might have an answer by then!	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-05-06 14:17:00
USCIS Service Centers	What is going on with CSC?	Seriously? Are you the only July filer left? Have u had an RFE?   No we have had no RFE. We called last Friday and they just said call back in 30 days if we hear nothing. I don't know if theres any other July filers out there?	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-05-06 13:55:00
USCIS Service Centers	What is going on with CSC?	I applied in July and I'm still waiting! Heard Nothing!	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-05-06 13:16:00
USCIS Service Centers	CSC - New week	I'm a July filer and don't even have an RFE yet! Infact just the other week  I called them and they said to call back in 120 days if I haven't heard anything by then! Absolute joke!	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-05-13 16:50:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	Fantastic. So how did you do it? They can give you information at least, so that you won't be in the dark as you are now. Keep us posted, and good luck.   I just did it on the infopass website. I booked the appointment for July 12 so we'll see what gets said. I'm going to call the USCIS tomorrow too and ask to talk to a tier 2 person.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 17:05:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	That I am not sure about, so I suggest starting a thread, as there are others you can give you details on who to contact for appointments. All I know is that it is different than scheduling an infopass with the service center, as you go to a local office instead of there.   I went ahead and booked an appointment at my local USCIS field office. Not sure what talking to an officer will do. My file will still be lost when I leave the building.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 16:56:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	Yes, you, JBForever, and a third (can't remember the username) all from July 2012 have been waiting like this. I do think the box containing your files was misplaced somewhere or (heaven forbid) destroyed when CSC had flooding and they had to move many of their boxes. What I would suggest is to find the local field office and make an appointment with them. Some who have tried every other recourse, including infopass, ombudsman, and their congressmen, and haven't had any luck, have seemingly had better information given to them via a local field office appointment. It's worth a shot.   When you say make an appointment do you mean like actually go to my local USCIS office to talk with someone? How do I schedule that?	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 16:27:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	I'm really not too sure as I'm not that far into the process, so hopefully someone else can chime in here?    If you haven't tried the Tier 2 thing, I think that is probably your next recourse:  To call up and ask for a Tier 2 officer.   I'm not sure if the InfoPass thing applies to you or not so you might want to use that "Google Custom Search" box at the top right corner and research it a bit more.  Here's a link to start with, though: http://www.immigrati...c-none-infopass     Again, I'm not on very familiar territory here so you might be better off spending some time looking around the forums to see if other peoples' files have gotten "stuck" and what they did about it.   Ok thanks a lot. I'm going to call and speak to a tier 2 person first. Hopefully they will help. But they probably wont. I just know they have misplaced my file somewhere.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 15:44:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	Go to the USCIS website and enter your WAC number like normal.  On the left, second link down, click on "Sign-in to My Account".  At the bottom, click on "Want to Register?" and create an account. Once that's done, your case number should show here, and you can turn on email and mobile alerts from this spot.   There is also a column that says "Last Updated" which shows the last time your file was touched (for me, this is my NOA1 date).   I haven't gotten this far yet, but I do believe if you have an RFE issued or something like that, it would also show up here, possibly where it says "Form Number" or "Form Title" (I'm sure someone who's gotten an RFE can provide better information, but this should at least get you started).   You may want to investigate things like Tier 2 or InfoPass.  I've seen these mentioned by other people who were having issues but as I haven't gotten that far in my process yet, I don't know much about them.  Again, perhaps other people can jump in here and give you more advice about that.  But you're nearly at 12 months, which is about double the average processing time, so you're well within your right to be asking for help now!    Thank you for all of that.  I made an account. My NOA1 date is July 26. It says last updated 30 July 2012. So it hasn't been touched since they got it really. I will call infopass. Is their number on the USCIS site?	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 12:34:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	JKS is right, that's way over the current processing time!  When you log into the website, what date does it say your file was touched last?  When you call, do they give you any other information besides "wait 90 days"?  Have you tried contacting your representative to see if they can't push it through for you?  What about asking to speak to a Tier 2 officer?   I've been on to the USCIS site to check my case status. I didn't know you could see when it was last touched? How do I do that? We have been in touch with Congressman but nothing has happened so far.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 12:11:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	Whattt?its been a long time.did you call uscis or the service center where you filed ?maybe there is an incomplete proof   I have done everything possible. All they say its call back in 90 days if you hear nothing. Its a disgrace!	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 10:11:00
USCIS Service Centers	how many march 2013 filers who got approved this days?	CSC have slowed right down for me. I'm a July 2012 filer.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-07-02 09:43:00
USCIS Service Centers	I'm so depressed :( come on vsc!!	We have called. They just say to call back in 30 days. They don't help at all.	nufcfc	Male	United Kingdom	2013-05-23 17:00:00